Chicken Manchurian Recipe
How about skipping a takeaway and making a lovely Indo-Chinese Chicken Manchurian instead? We promise you three things - it will taste better than any take out dish, it will be a lot healthier (and lower in calories) and you will make it quicker than the delivery driver would have knocked on your door! Coated chicken covered in spicy sweet and sour sauce goes perfectly well with both noodles and fluffy white rice!
Ingredients
For The Chicken:
- 300 g chicken breast skinless, boneless
- 1½ tablespoon cornflour cornstarch
- 1½ tablespoon plain flour all-purpose flour
- neutral oil for frying
For Manchurian Sauce:
- ½ teaspoon chilli flakes
- 10 g root ginger finely chopped
- 1 garlic clove finely chopped
- 1 small red onion finely chopped
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste tomato puree
- 1 tablespoon sriracha or other chilli sauce
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon rice vinegar
- 1 teaspoon brown sugar
- 1 level tbsp cornflour (cornstarch)
- 200 ml chicken stock hot
- 1 spring onions sliced on the diagonal
Instructions
- Place the flour, cornflour and a pinch of salt in a large bowl and mix.
- Add the chicken cubes and mix well insuring every piece of chicken is coated in the mixture.
- Heat 3-4 tablespoon of oil in a large non-stick frying pan. Add the chicken, shaking off any excess coating, and fry for approx 10 minutes, string often to ensure even browning on all sides. Once the chicken is cooked through, remove it from the pan and set aside for later.
- To the emptied pan, add the chilli flakes, red onion, garlic and ginger. Sautee on medium heat for 4-5 minutes. Add the tomato paste, sriracha, soy sauce, vinegar and brown sugar to the pan and stir for a minute. Then add the stock and bring it to a boil.
- In the meantime, mix the cornflour with two tablespoons of water and add it to the stock. Stirring, simmer the sauce for a couple of minutes until the sauce thickens.
- Once the sauce is thickened. Add the chicken back to the pan and stir to coat and warm through for a minute. Garnish with spring onion. Serve with rice!
Notes
Serve it with rice or noodles.
Nutrition
Calories: 306kcalCarbohydrates: 25gProtein: 37gFat: 5gSaturated Fat: 1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 99mgSodium: 1068mgPotassium: 912mgFiber: 2gSugar: 7gVitamin A: 390IUVitamin C: 15mgCalcium: 41mgIron: 2mg
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