Dragon Chicken Recipe | Chef Mehboob in Mehboob’s Kitchen

Ingredients

• 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

• 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

Methods

1. 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.
2. Heat oil in a pan, add cashew nuts and fry until golden.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Reduce the flame and add the sauces, red chili paste, sugar, salt and cook for another 2 minutes.
6. Add 1/4^th 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.