Chilli Chicken Recipe—Kolkata Restaurant Style Dry Chilli Chicken—Indo-Chinese Chicken Gravy Recipe

Chilli chicken recipe: Chilli chicken is perhaps the most popular Indo-Chinese dish found both in restaurants and street side stalls. No visit to Calcutta's Chinatowns (especially Tangra) is complete without an order of chilli chicken. The dry chilli chicken works as a snack, appetiser as well as a side. The gravy chilli chicken is more popular as a side to either chowmein or with fried rice. There are various versions of the chilli chicken recipes. While you can play around with the sauces you like in your chilli chicken, most folks will agree that the best chilli chicken has the chicken still crispy when served. With that goal in mind we tested both the wet batter as well as the dry breading technique and finally went with breading. What yielded the crunchiest chicken was Kenji Lopez-Alt's method (https://www.seriouseats.com/2014/04/t..., which he had used in his General Tso's Chicken recipe in Serious Eats Food Lab. Do give this a try and let us know how it goes!
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