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Baked chilli chicken is the most delicious and a healthy version of the normal chilli chicken which is usually deep fried. This is super easy and a simple dish to prepare, when thinking about something tasty and yummy to cook.

Mixing all the ingredients to marinate, baked till perfection and mixed with all the sauces till everything gets well blended with each other. This is a delightful combination of chicken and spices along with sauces. We can have this with fried rice, but I serve this along with white rice, which my kids love a lot.

I like to make this often as the flavors are clean and simple and the cooking process is easy. This dish tastes like an authentic Chinese chili chicken one that you might enjoy in a Chinese restaurant.

In almost all the fast food restaurants in India, this chilli chicken and fried rice is the popular combination. after coming to the US, I started making the chilli chicken at home, but this time I thought of the healthier version of baking instead of frying which is almost equal in taste and flavor. I guarantee you, that this will be loved by all. Try this out and let me know how it turns.

Ingredients:

For Marination:

Boneless Chicken- 2 Cups
Corn Flakes- 2 tbsp
Soy sauce- 1 tbsp
Salt- as required
Pepper powder- 1/2 tbsp
Red Chilli Powder- 1/2 tbsp
All-Purpose Flour- 2 tbsp

For sauce:

Onions(cubed)- 2 nos
Red Bell Peppers- 1 no
Soy sauce- 2 tbsp
Tomato sauce- 1 tbsp
Salt- as required
Oil- 1 tbsp
Garlic(chopped)- 2 tbsp
Spring onions- 1 sprig
Vinegar- 1 tbsp
Corn Flour- 1 tbsp

Method:

For the baking:

In a mixing bowl, mix all the ingredients for marination along with the chicken. Keep this aside for some time.
Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Bake the marinated chicken for about 20- 25 minutes. Flipping in between. Keep this aside.

For the sauce:

Heat oil in a pan, add the cubed onions, chopped garlic, and red bell pepper. Stir well till the raw smell disappears.
Add the soy sauce, tomato sauce, stir well. Add the spring onions and vinegar. Mix well. Add the baked chicken pieces.
Mix the cornflour along with 1/4 cup water, stir well. Add this to the above-made gravy to thicken the gravy.
Saute on high flame for 2- 3 minutes and switch off the flame. Enjoy.

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In my house garlic is used in almost all the dishes. We simply love the flavor of garlic. I made this burnt garlic fried rice and hot garlic chicken on a Sunday, as I was lazy to prepare an elaborate lunch. Usually it would be a one pot meal on holidays, but to go along with this fried rice, some side dish would taste wonderful and so here I made two awesome dishes out of garlic which I am sure that you all will cherish.

I had this burnt garlic rice in a Chinese restaurant back in India and as we are big fans of garlic, instantly fell in love with this rice and tried it at home which came out pretty well. From then on this is made regularly and some of the side dishes for this rice are Chilli mushroom gravy, chilly chicken, orange chicken and so on.. This time I thought of making something that had garlic and this hot garlic chicken was perfect.

This hot garlic chicken is little bit spicy because of the chilli paste, but we can balance it by using kashmiri chillies. I have given the preparation of red chilli paste in the note on the bottom of this post. Let's see how it is prepared...

Ingredients:

For the Burnt garlic Rice:

Cooked Rice- 2 Cups
Garlic (chopped) 3 tbsp
Olive Oil- 2 tbsp
Vegetables( Carrot, Cabbage, Beans)- ¾ Cup
Soya sauce- 1 tbsp
Vinegar- 1 tbsp
Salt- as required
Pepper- 1 tbsp

Method:

Chop all the veggies using hand blender so that the vegetables are finely chopped.
Heat oil in a pan, add the chopped garlic. Saute for some time so that the oil gets infused with the flavors of garlic. Make sure that the garlic doesn’t burn.
Add the chopped vegetables along with required amount of salt. Add the soy sauce, vinegar and pepper powder.
In the above mix the cooked rice till all the flavors are well blended. Serve hot.

Ingredients :

For Hot Garlic Chicken:

Boneless Chicken- 250 gms
Garlic (chopped)- 2 tbsp
Ginger (chopped)- 1 tbsp
Red Chilli Paste- 2 tbsp (see note)
Oil- 1 tbsp
Corn Flour- 2 tbsp + 1 tbsp
Soy Sauce- 1 tbsp
Salt- as required
Pepper Powder- 1 tsp
Red Chilli Flakes- ½ tbsp
Capsicum (cubed)- 1 cup
Vinegar- 1 tsp
Onion- 1 no
Tomato sauce- 1 tbsp

Method:

Coat the cubed chicken pieces in a bowl of corn flour, pepper powder, salt and soy sauce. Keep this aside for some time.
Meanwhile heat a pan with 1 tbsp of oil, add the chopped garlic and ginger. Saute well.
In this add the red chilli flakes, red chilli paste, soy sauce, vinegar, tomato sauce and required amount of salt. Stir well.
Add the cubed capsicum and onions. Saute for a minute. Add pepper powder and add half a cup of water and let it boil for about 2 minutes.
Heat oil for deep frying. When it becomes hot, fry the above batter covered chicken till golden brown in colour. Keep this aside on kitchen towel.
Mix one tbsp of corn flour along with ¼ cup of water without forming any lumps. Add this to the above made gravy.
Add the fried chicken pieces in this and stir till it thickens. Switch off the flame and serve hot along with fried rice.

Note:

For Red Chilli Paste:

Soak 6- 7 red chillies in hot water for about 30 minutes. Drain these and grind to a coarse paste.
Heat 1 tbsp of olive oil. Saute the ground red chilli paste for about 3- 4 minutes.
When it is cooled down, store in an airtight container and use whenever required.