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Making Tangra-Style Chilli Chicken Recipe

Recipe By Harini Manickam Ht
There are Chinese food cravings, and then there is Tangra-style chilli chicken, the desi Chinese kind that arrives sizzling hot, glossy with sauce, studded with green chillies and onions, and somehow makes everything better when paired with it. Even if you are stuck in the eternal fight between chowmein and fried rice in India, chilli chicken, especially the Tangra-style variety, remains a nostalgic and unmissable combination. Kolkata's Tangra Chinese food is not just Chinese food transplanted onto Indian soil. It grew organically from the city's Chinese community and evolved around the region’s local flavours and ingredients, along with the practical reality of restaurant kitchens. This homemade version leans into that familiar character: crisp-edged chicken, plenty of garlic, ginger, green chillies, capsicum, and onion, with a dark, savoury sauce that clings to every piece instead of drowning everything in it.
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Ingredients for Making Tangra-Style Chilli Chicken Recipe

  • As required For the chicken
  • 166.67 g boneless chicken
  • As required cut into bite-sized pieces
  • 0.67 tbsp Cornflour
  • 0.33 tbsp plain flour
  • 0.33 nos Egg
  • 0.33 tsp Ginger-garlic paste
  • As required ½ tsp freshly ground Black pepper
  • 0.33 tbsp light soy sauce
  • As required Salt
  • As required to taste
  • As required Oil
  • As required For frying
  • As required For The Sauce
  • 0.33 tbsp ½oil
  • 0.33 tbsp finely chopped garlic
  • 0.33 tsp finely chopped ginger
  • 2.33 nos – green chillies
  • As required Sliced
  • 0.33 nos medium onion
  • As required cut into chunky squares
  • As required ½ green capsicum
  • As required cut into squares
  • 0.33 tbsp light soy sauce
  • 0.33 tbsp Dark soy sauce
  • 0.33 tbsp red Chilli sauce
  • 0.33 tsp Rice vinegar or white vinegar
  • As required ½ tsp Sugar
  • 2.33 tbsp –water
  • 1 tbsp cornflour mixed with water
  • 0.67 nos Spring onions
  • As required Sliced
  • As required A pinch of freshly ground black pepper

Directions: Making Tangra-style Chilli Chicken Recipe

  • STEP 1.First, marinate your chicken. Place the chicken pieces in a bowl and add ginger-garlic paste, soy sauce, black pepper, and a little salt. Mix well. Then add the egg, cornflour, and plain flour, tossing until every piece is coated properly in a thick, clingy batter. Leave for 15–20 minutes.
  • STEP 2.Now, heat oil in a deep pan over medium-high heat. Fry your chicken in batches rather than crowding the pan. Cook until the coating is crisp and the chicken is cooked through, then drain on a wire rack or kitchen paper.
  • STEP 3.Time to start the Tangra-style sauce. Heat 1½ tbsp oil in a wok or large frying pan over high heat. Then add in your garlic, ginger and green chillies. Stir-fry for 20–30 seconds, until just fragrant. Do not let the garlic darken.
  • STEP 4.Then pour in your onion and capsicum and toss over high heat. You want them slightly softened but still crunchy enough to hold their structural integrity. That little veggie snap is what makes restaurant-style chilli chicken so satisfying.
  • STEP 5.Now, incorporate light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, chilli sauce, vinegar, sugar, and black pepper. Toss and mix everything quickly. Then pour in water and bring everything to a lively simmer.
  • STEP 6.Prepare your cornflour slurry and stir it well before gradually adding it to the wok, tossing continuously. The sauce should become glossy and just thick enough to coat the back of a spoon.
  • STEP 7.Finally, tip in your fried chicken and toss vigorously over high heat for about 30–45 seconds. You are coating the chicken, not simmering it in the sauce. Finish with spring onions and take it off the heat immediately.
Nutrition
value
459
calories per serving
25 g Fat33 g Protein25 g Carbs4 g FiberOther

Current Totals

  • Fat
    25g
  • Protein
    33g
  • Carbs
    25g
  • Fiber
    4g

MacroNutrients

  • Carbs
    25g
  • Protein
    33g
  • Fiber
    4g

Fats

  • Fat
    25g

Vitamins & Minerals

  • Calcium
    48mg
  • Iron
    3mg
  • Vitamin A
    82mcg
  • Vitamin B1
    < 1mg
  • Vitamin B2
    < 1mg
  • Vitamin B3
    10mg
  • Vitamin B6
    < 1mg
  • Vitamin B9
    29mcg
  • Vitamin B12
    0mcg
  • Vitamin C
    2mg
  • Vitamin E
    1mg
  • Copper
    < 1mcg
  • Magnesium
    74mg
  • Manganese
    < 1mg
  • Phosphorus
    403mg
  • Selenium
    36mcg
  • Zinc
    3mg
Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. All nutritional information presented are estimates and not meant to substitute professional dietary advice or treatment
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