Chilli chicken

Indo-Chinese dish From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Chilli chicken is a popular Indo-Chinese dish that uses chicken, and is of Chinese heritage.[1][2] In India, this may include a variety of dry chicken preparations.[3] Though mainly boneless chicken is used in this dish, some recipes also use bone-in chicken.

CourseStarters
Place of originKolkata, India
Region or stateIndia
Serving temperatureHot
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Chilli chicken
Dry chilli chicken
CourseStarters
Place of originKolkata, India
Region or stateIndia
Serving temperatureHot
Main ingredientsChicken, ginger and garlic paste, lemon juice
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Recipes

Chilli chicken comes in several variations with differences in spices and seasoning, as well as its "sauce" and "dry" variants with differences in their quantity of sauce or gravy.[2] The South Asian contributions of this dish are in the spices used, while the Cantonese contributions include the sweet and savoury flavours along with the Chinese cooking techniques used in its preparation.[2]

Numerous recipes exist for the dish of the same name depending on the restaurateur, including:

  • Green chilli chicken.
  • Tangrai chilli chicken.
  • Chinese chilli chicken.
  • Bengal chilli chicken.

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