A very popular Indo-Chinese recipe in which small bite size fried chicken pieces in a thick spicy Chinese sauce. It’s a very common and loved fast food in India.
Chicken manchurian recipe
Course: MainCuisine: IndianDifficulty: Medium6
servings15
minutes30
minutes1
hourChicken Manchurian is a super popular Indo Chinese dish in which chicken pieces are stir fried and tossed in spicy and sour sauce.
Ingredients
- Marination :-
1 lb/ 1/2 kg boneless chicken, cut into bite size pieces
2 tsp of ginger garlic paste
2 Tbsp of all purpose/corn flour
1/2 of egg
1 Tbsp of soy sauce
1/2 Tbsp of rice vinegar
1 tsp of chilly garlic sauce
1 tsp of black pepper
Salt to taste
oil for shallow frying
- For Gravy :-
4 spring onion, finely chopped(green and white seperated)
1 inch finely chopped ginger
4 big garlic cloves, finely chopped
1/4 cup finley chopped cabbage(optional)
1 can of chicken stock/water
2 Tbsp of ketchup
2 Tbsp of soy sauce
1 Tbsp of rice vinegar
1 Tbsp of chilly sauce or to taste
2 tsp of corn starch
Salt and pepper, if needed
Directions
- In a bowl, whisk well marination ingredients except chicken and oil. Now add chicken pieces and mix and refrigerate it for an hour.
- Pour oil in a hot wide pan and fry the chicken pieces until golden brown. You can either deep fry or shallow fry. Keep it aside.
- Now in another pan, heat oil and fry ginger for about 30 sec, then add garlic, white part of green onion and stir fry until onions are soft.
- Now add cabbage, stir again for 2 minutes. Then add all the sauces and let it cook for 2 minutes.
- In a bowl whisk corn starch with stock and add it to the gravy and let it come to boil over medium heat.
- When the sauce is little thick add the chicken pieces and mix well. Let it cook for another 1 min, then turn off the heat and garnish with green part of onion.
Notes
- Serve hot with egg fried rice or chowmein.