Chilli Chicken

Ingredients:

Chicken	300 gms
Onion	1 medium
Ginger	1 inch piece
Garlic	4 cloves
Green chilli	2 small
Red chilli powder	½ tsp
Coriander powder	½ tsp
Fennel powder	¼ tsp
Pepper powder	¼ tsp
Readymade garam masala	¼ tsp
Tomato sauce	1 tsp
Red chilli sauce	1 tsp
Salt	to taste
Coriander leaves	few chopped
Oil	1 tbsp

Ingredients for marination

Pepper powder	¼ tsp
Salt	¼ tsp
Ginger garlic paste	very little
Corn flour	2 – 3 tsp
Lemon juice	1 tsp
Egg	1 no

Oil for deep frying

Method:

1. Cut Chicken into medium sized pieces. Clean and wash well. Drain water completely from the pieces. Add ingredients mentioned for marination except egg. Beat the egg separately and add to the marinated chicken, little by little. Egg is needed only to bind the chicken and masala well. According to that, use egg in needed base (excess egg will turn into chicken bajji ☺). Keep marinated for one hour. 
2. Heat sufficient oil in a kadai for deep frying. Once again mix the marinated chicken well. When oil comes to medium hot, lower the flame and drop 5-6 pieces gently into the oil. Once the pieces fried to light brown, turn the heat to high and fry till golden and crisp. Remove and keep aside. Repeat with remaining pieces. 
3. Chop onion, ginger, garlic and green chilli into fine pieces. Mix red chilli powder, coriander powder, fennel powder and garam masala together (spice powder). Mix tomato sauce and red chilli sauce with little water. 
4. Heat a kadai with 1 tbsp of oil. Add chopped onion, ginger, garlic and green chilli. Fry till onion becomes dark pink. Lower the flame and add mixed spice powders. Mix well and add tomato sauce and red chilli sauce mix. Fry for few seconds and then add chopped coriander leaves and mix again. 
5. Now add fried chicken pieces and saute gently till all the pieces coated well with masala. Switch off the flame. Chilli Chicken is ready. 

Serve hot as starter or side dish.