Quick Chilly Chicken

Ingredients

• • Boneless chicken - 500 grams
• • Ginger-garlic paste (fresh) - 2 tablespoons
• • Red chilly paste - ½ tablespoon
• • Soya sauce - 3 tablespoons
• • Vinegar - 1 tablespoon
• • Pepper powder - ½ teaspoon
• • Salt - ½ teaspoon
• • Sugar - ½ teaspoon
• • Ajinomoto - ¼ teaspoon (optional)
• • Oil - 3 tablespoons
• • Green chillies (slit lengthwise) - 8
• • Spring onions (cut into ½ inch pieces) - 3
• • Capsicum (cut into ½ inch pieces) - 1

Method

• 1. Cut the chicken into small pieces by placing a sharp knife over the piece and hitting the knife with anything hard that cracks the bone and can cut through the piece, or take boneless chicken and cut into 2 inch pieces.
• 2. Marinate the chicken with ginger-garlic paste, red chilly paste, soya sauce, vinegar, pepper, salt, sugar and ajinomoto for ½ hour.
• 3. Heat oil in a pressure cooker, add the marinated chicken. Stir fry on high flame till the chicken is dry.
• 4. Add ½ cup water and close the lid of the pressure cooker. Pressure cook to give 1 whistle. Remove from flame, drop the pressure of the cooker by putting cold water on the lid and open.
• 5. Dry the chicken pieces on high flame.
• 6. Add green chillies, spring onions, capsicum. Stir well and serve hot.