Chilli Chicken

I came across this recipe long back and it has numbered among my favourite chicken recipes. It is no doubt inspired from Chinese cuisine but it's not the typical Chilli Chicken so popular across India.  It has very few and readily available ingredients and is cooked in a jiffy. You can serve it as a starter or in the main course; have it with chapati or bread.  Go ahead and try it. You will love it.

Ingredients:

1 medium to small chicken, cut in 1 inch pieces
4 large onions, chopped fine
15-20 cloves garlic, chopped
2 inch piece of ginger, chopped
8-10 whole red chilli, broken
1 1/2 cups of tomato sauce
1/4 cup of soya sauce
2 tbsp cooking oil
Salt to taste

Method:   Rinse and drain chicken pieces.  Heat oil and  when warm put chopped ginger, garlic and fry for 2 mins.  Add the chopped onions and fry till translucent.

Add the chicken pieces and broken red chilli bits and cook over low flame for few minutes till chicken changes colour.  Pour tomato sauce over the chicken.  Mix well. Cover and cook till chicken is tender.  Add soya sauce and salt and cook for 2 more mins.  Serve hot.

Use whole red chillies as per taste. In case the chillies you have are the fiery kind just put a couple or skip the whole chillies and add chilly flakes or red chilly powder.  Also, use soya sauce a  little at a time.  Dont put entire 1/4 cup at once.  Some are very concentrated and just a little is sufficient while some are very diluted.  I use the local small variety of garlic.  In case you have the big variety please use only 2 or 3.