CHILLI CHICKEN

Chili Chicken is one of the dishes that have made its mark in the Indo Chinese cuisine.  This dish is unique to India adapting the Indo Chinese spices and flavors. As such there is no standard recipe of this dish, everyone use their culinary skills to make their own version. Chili Chicken is made of chunks of boneless chicken mixed with dry red chilies, finely chopped ginger and garlic, onions and other Indo Chinese spices to make a spicy Indian flare dish along with the distinct traditional Chinese flavors. This Indo -  Chinese dish that is well adapted in India is a great combination with rice or chowmein noodles. 

Indo Chinese means Indian style Chinese cooking, takes popular Chinese dishes and adds simple Indian ingredients to it and makes it tasty as per our palate. Many overseas Indian restaurants in the West and the Middle East also cater to the overseas Indian’s nostalgic taste for Indo Chinese food. The cuisine is also branching out into the mainstream in major metropolitan areas of North America. It is the most favored option when young people dine out. Be it at lunch or at dinner when you are late, this seems to be the most optimal choice. 

Be a kid or a teenage or an adult or an oldie, chicken lovers trend all over the world at all times! One meat that is a favorite of all beyond belief!  The modern chicken is a descendant of red junglefowl hybrids along with the grey junglefowl first raised thousands of years ago, in the northern parts of the Indian subcontinent. Chicken as a meat has been depicted in Babylonian carvings from around 600 BC. Chicken was one of the most common meats available in the Middle Ages. It was one of the basic ingredients in the so-called white dish, a stew usually consisting of chicken and fried onions cooked in milk and seasoned with spices and sugar.  Sauté it, fry it, toss it, bake it, steam it – eat it the way you want to. Whatever its form may be upon being cooked, its flavor may change but its flesh remains high in protein, low in fat and can be digested easily. Indian chicken dish is famous world over for mouthwatering tandoori varities, curries, tikkas and gravies. Chicken tikkas and pakoras are served as starters. While butter chicken, chicken curry, chicken chettinad are served in main course or an accompaniment

Cooking Tips:

• If you are preparing this dish for kids, then reduce the quantity of chilies and makes it less spicy.

Health Tips:

• If you’re looking for a great source of lean, low fat protein, this bird is the word. The protein in chicken lends itself to muscle growth and development, and help to  support a healthy body weight and aid weight loss.
• If you’re entering your senior years and you’re concerned about Osteoporosis or arthritis, eating chicken will aid in your fight against bone loss thanks to the protein punch it packs!
• Chicken is also rich in phosphorus, an essential mineral that supports your teeth and bones, as well as kidney, liver, and central nervous system function.
• Chicken is high in retinol, alpha and beta-carotene, and lycopene, all derived from vitamin A, and all vital for healthy eyesight.