Ingredients:
For marination
- Chicken boneless 500 gram cut into thin strips
- Crushed ginger and garlic 1 tbsp
- Black pepper powder ¾ tsp
- Red chili paste 1 tsp
- Soya sauce ½ tsp
- Corn flour 2 tbsp
- Egg white 1
- Sal t to taste
- Oil for deep frying
ingredients:
- Cashew nuts 15
- Whole red chili 2
- Ginger garlic chopped 2 tsp
- Red chili flakes 1 tsp
- Spring onion chopped 2tbsp
- Onion, diced 2
- Capsicum (sliced) green, red & yellow 1 cup
- Tomato sauce 2 tbsp
- Soya sauce 1 tsp
- Red chili paste ¾ tsp (add more or less to taste)
- Sugar 1/4 tsp
- Water ¼ cup
- Salt to taste
- Oil 2 tbsp
Method:
- Marinate the chicken pieces with the other ingredients except oil and keep it aside for ½ hour. Heat oil in a pan and deep fry the marinate chicken pieces until cooked and golden brown. Move the chicken pieces to a paper towel to remove excess oil.
- Heat oil in a pan, add cashew nuts and fry until golden.
- Remove from pan. In the same oil, add whole red chili, chopped ginger garlic and red chilie flakes and sauté until the raw smell disappears.
- To this add spring onion and diced onion and sauté over high flame for three to four minutes. Add the sliced capsicum, cook for another 2 minutes.
- Reduce the flame and add the sauces, red chili paste, sugar, salt and cook for another 2 minutes.
- Add 1/4th cup water to this and cook till thick. Add the fried chicken pieces and cashew nuts to this and combine evenly. Cook for another 2-3 minutes, remove from flame and serve hot.
