DRAGON CHICKEN
This is restaurant-style dragon chicken, where the chicken is deep-fried until it’s crispy and then mixed with a hot sauce that includes cashews and dry red chillies. Like my Sanchez chicken, this meal is a family favourite.
Set Up Time: fifteen minutes
Cooking Time: 30 minutes
Overall Time: forty-five minutes
There are four servings.
INGREDIENTS FOR DRAGON CHICKEN
- 500 gram mes of boneless chicken breast sliced into thin strips
- Freshly chopped spring onions or coriander leaves for decoration
- Deep-frying oil
- Add 2 tsp Dark Soy Sauce
- 2 tbsp Chilli Garlic Paste
- 1 Egg
- ½ cup All-Purpose Flour
- ¼ cup Corn Flour / Corn Starch
- 1 tbsp Ginger Garlic Paste
- Salt to Taste
- 1 tsp black Pepper and optionally 1 tsp Ajinomoto / MSG for the marinade.
- 2 tablespoons oil
- 3 dried red chillies
- 2 tablespoons cashews
For Sauce:
- One large onion finely sliced
- One large bell pepper or capsicum
- One tablespoon ginger garlic paste
- One tablespoon chilli garlic paste
- Two tablespoons dark soy sauce
- One cup tomato ketchup
- salt to taste
- One tablespoon Ajinomoto / MSG optional
- Two tablespoons sugar
GUIDELINES FOR DRAGON CHICKEN
- Place the chicken in a bowl and include all of the marinating components.
- After thoroughly mixing, let it sit for 15 minutes.
- Now preheat the deep fryer oil. The chicken should be dropped into the heated oil and fried until golden. After draining, set away.
- Now warm up some oil in a pan.
- Add the cashews and dry red chilli and cook until the cashews become golden brown.
- Add the bell peppers and onions now, and thoroughly toss in the oil.
- Stir in the ginger-garlic paste and cook for one minute.
- Add the red chilli paste, sugar, ajinomoto, soy sauce, and tomato ketchup now and stir thoroughly.
- Cook for a few minutes, or until the sauce thickens and the water evaporates.
- Add the fried chicken now, and thoroughly toss it in the sauce.
- Stir in finely chopped spring onions or coriander.
- serve hot and Enjoy!
Nutrition:
One serving contains: 640 calories, 46 gram mes of carbohydrates, 40 gram mes of protein, 34 gram mes of fat, 6 gram mes of saturated fat, 7 gram mes of polyunsaturated fat, 18 gram mes of monounsaturated fat, 1 gram me of trans fat, 121 mg of cholesterol, 477 mg of sodium, 1014 mg of potassium, 4 gram mes of fibre, 11 gram mes of sugar, 336 IU of vitamin A, 39 mg of vitamin C, 51 mg of calcium, and 5 mg of iron.
Looks amazing.