Sunday, June 22, 2008

Sweet and Spicy Chicken



Ingredients

Chicken breasts - 2
Onion - 1 (cut into bite sized squares)
Bell pepper - 1 ( cut into bite sized squares)
Garlic - 1 clove (minced)
Soya sauce - 1 tsp
Chilli powder - 1 tsp
Pepper - 1/2 tsp
Olive oil - 3 tbsp
Red chillies - 4
Corn flour - 1 tbsp
Tomato ketchup - 2 tbsp
Honey - 1 tbsp ( i used Dabur)
Soya sauce - 1 tsp
water - as needed
Salt - as needed


Method

Marinate the bite size cut chicken pieces in soya sauce,chiili powder,pepper and salt for atleast 30 minutes.In a heavy bottomed pan, heat oilve oil.In medium high heat, fry the chicken pieces till all the sides are brown batch by batch.(don't have to cook all the way through because we will cook it again with the sauce).Now in the same pan with the remaining oil, add red chillies,minced garlic, onion and saute.Once the onions are tranlucent, add the bell peppers.After sauting well, add the chicken pieces.In a bowl, mix corn flour,soya sauce,ketchup , honey , salt and little water and make a sauce.Add this sauce into the pan with chicken.Let it cook till the whole dish thickens.Garnish with chopped spring onion.Serve as a side dish or as an appetizer.



I am sending this delicious dish over to AWED - Chinese hosted by DK and Chicken - My fav by Vandhana.Thanks Asha for reminding me..

11 comments:

Sum Raj said...

Adding honey is new to me...ur curry looks delicicous and mouthwatering...hey u can send to chicken event hosted by Vandana rajesh...

Sig said...

Honey is a great addition to get that sweet taste to the spicy dish... It is a great looking chicken dish Maheswari!

notyet100 said...

wow,,,nice colour,.looks delicious..

FH said...

YUM! Sweet and sour tastes great in chicken, our fave dish from Chinese!:))

Send this to AWED and Chicken event, two in one!:D

Finla said...

Spicy and sweet, ilove dishes like that.
I am sure i would love this chickentoo.
Yummm

@the_whisk_affair said...

wow!! it looks great maheswari...i would love to have some!! :-)

Sujatha said...

Looks delicious, Maheswari.. Honey is an interesting addition.. Will try soon..

Medhaa said...

This looks so delicious, I like the addition of honey. Thank you for sharing

Cham said...

Looks delicious the chicken, reminds the chinese take over :)

Kalai said...

Looks awesome, Maheswari!! Nice idea of adding honey to the dish. Will have to try it out soon. :)

Dori said...

I love chicken... It looks great!