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Chicken sweet and sour

chichen in sweet and sour sauce

Recipe by soumi kar of bhubaneswar, IN

chicken can be replaced by paneer, fish, shrimps or simple vegetables.

Ingredients non vegetarian 2 servings


    • 250gm chicken
    • 1 big sliced onion
    • 1 medium sliced capsicum
    • oil to fry

    For marination

    • 2tbsp lemon juice
    • 1 tbsp ginger paste
    • salt to taste

    For the sauce

    • 1/4 cup sugar
    • 1/2 cup water
    • 1/4 th cup vinegar
    • 1 tbsp wheat flour ( maida)
    • 1/2 tbsp soya sauce
    • 2 tbsp tomato sauce
    • 1/2 tsp ajinamoto

    For the batter

    • 2 tbsp cournflour
    • 1 egg

    Directions

    1. First marinate the chicken with salt,lemon juice and ginger paste for atleast 3 hrs.
    2. For preparation of the batter, mix cournflour and egg with a bit of salt.
    3. Now dip the marinated chicken and deep fry it in oil.
    4. For the sauce mix all the above ingredients and cook under low flame for few minutes or until the sauce is prepared
    5. Now in a wok ,put oil and fry sliced onions and capsicum ,then put the sauce and little water , then give the fried chicken into it and cook under low flame for 5 min .
    6. serve hot.

    Comments

    jean chaurasia

    Instead of wheatflour for the sauce, try adding cornflour or arrowroot powder, turns out better.

    christy gerald

    christy gerald

    Very Good Recipe.Thanks

    soumi kar

    soumi kar

    you can serve it with Fried Rice or Chowmin

    Diya sherin

    its really delicious. With wat can we serve this?