Ingredients for Chicken Manchurian with gravy:
- 🌻To fry:
- 250 grams chicken breastboneless, (cubed)
- 1 egg white
- 1/8 tsp crushed black pepper
- 1 tsp soya sauce
- 2 pinches chilli powder (for color)
- 2 Tbsp corn starch (white corn flour)
- 1 & 1/2 Tbsp all-purpose flour or maida or rice flour)
- 1 tsp ginger garlic paste or minced
- salt little
- oil as needed for frying
- 🌻for manchurian sauce:
- 1 Tbsp garlic chopped finely
- 1/2 Tbsp ginger chopped finely
- 1 medium onion chopped finely or 2 tbsps spring onion whites
- 1 tbsp soya sauce (use more for flavor)
- 2 Tbsp red chili sauce
- 2 Tbsp tomato sauce optional
- 1 tsp vinegar (add more if needed)
- 1 cup water or chicken stock
- 2 tsp corn starch (white corn flour) (3 tsps for gravy)
- 3 Tbsp water to mix with flour
- salt little
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1 cup capsicum or bell peppers cubed (multicoloured)
- 1 white onion sliced
- 2 Tbsp spring onions greens
- 1/2 cup pineapple chunks (tinned)
Cooking Instructions for making Chicken Manchurian with gravy:
🌻Chicken Manchurian:
Mix chicken with soya sauce, salt, ginger garlic paste, red chilli powder (optional) and pepper powder. Add egg white and flour. Mix well. Set aside for at least 1 hour.
Heat oil until hot enough to fry. Test by sliding a small portion of the batter to the hot oil. It has to rise without browning. This is the right temperature.
Deep fry chicken on a medium flame until golden & crisp. Remove the fried chicken to a kitchen towel. Please make sure the chicken is cooked completely inside before you add it to the sauce.
🌻Making manchurian sauce:
Stir in the corn flour with 3 tbsp water in a small bowl. To another small bowl, add vinegar,soya sauce, tomato sauce and red chilli sauce. Mix all of these and set aside.
Transfer the oil to a bowl and retain only half a tbsp. Fry ginger garlic until aromatic.
Add capsicum & onions fry for 2 -3 minutes. Pour the sauces.
When they begin to bubble, Stir the corn flour mixture & pour it along with 1 cup water or stock.
The sauce begins to bubble and thickens. Taste the sauce and add in more salt or any sauces you desire. Turn off the heat. Then add fried chicken,pineapple chunks & spring onions.Stir and coat the chicken with the sauces.
Garnish with spring onions and serve chicken manchurian as a appetizer.
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