Chicken Chili: Chinese Style Chicken Chili with Soya Sauce and Spring Onions.

Chicken Chili

Ingredients:

1. 1 kg chicken, cut into medium sized pieces
2. One large onion sliced horizontally about 1 cm thick
3. One tablespoon garlic paste
4. One teaspoon ginger paste
5. One teaspoon jeera powder( cumin seed powder)
6. One teaspoon coriander powder
7. Two large tomatoes
8. Five large spring onion sliced into 3 inches long pieces
9. One king chili or 10 pieces of green chilies slit into half vertically
10. Bell peppers/ Capsicum ( your choice to add)- slice it vertically 2 cm thick
11. Three tablespoons oil
12. Soya Sauce: 1-2 tablespoons
13. Chicken Masala
14. Salt to taste
15. Coriander leaves and sesame seeds for garnish

Preparation Time: 45 min- 1 hr

Servings: 4 people

Process:

1. Pour the oil in a thick pan and heat up the oil.
2. In the meanwhile, take 30 g of onion and chop it finely into small pieces. Also, take a tomato and chop it into small pieces.
3. Now, stir fry this onion, ginger and garlic together. Stir it for 3 mins in medium heat and add the cumin seed powder, coriander powder. Simultaneously add the chopped tomatoes and stir fry them until they become golden brown and soft respectively. Stir for 3 more minutes.
4. Then, add the chicken and stir fry them together in medium heat for 3 more minutes occasionally stirring every 1 minute. Keep the lid closed when not stirred.
5. Then add soya sauce, chilies and chicken masala and stir fry them together in medium heat and cook it under closed lid for 15 minutes.Open the lid and stir it every 5 mins to avoid sticking to the pan.
6. In the meantime, slice the remaining tomato vertically into 4 pieces.
7. After 15 minutes, open the lid and add the leftover onion, tomatoes and the bell pepper and cook them together under closed lid for 5 more minutes while occasionally stirring to check sticking to the pan.
8. Now add salt ( about half a teaspoon) and spring onion and cook for 5 more minutes under closed lid.
9.  Now the chicken chili is done. Serve it on a plate and garnish it with coriander leaves and sesame seeds( optional).

Note: If you wish to add potatoes, you may do so  right after Step 4 since potatoes take time to cook.