Mother’s Recipe Ginger Garlic Chicken

Instructions

• Wash the chicken thoroughly, drain the excess water and pat dry.
• Transfer the dry chicken in a clean dry bowl, big enough to easily mix and marinate chicken.
• To the chicken add Mother’s recipe Ginger Garlic paste, Soy sauce, lemon juice, and salt and mix well, massage the chicken well with the marinade mixture. Mother’s Recipe Ginger Garlic paste brings out a really good flavor to this dish because of its strong aroma and natural taste. Since we are using this Mother’s recipe Ginger Garlic paste we do not really need any strong spices.
• Allow the chicken to sit aside for at least an hour so that the flavor of ginger garlic paste seeps into the chicken. This is a very versatile marination recipe, can be used in making various Chinese dishes, the ginger garlic paste brings out the great flavor to most of the dishes, may it be Indian or Chinese. I always have this marinated chicken in the fridge.

• Meanwhile, in a separate bowl take corn flour, add a pinch of salt, red chili powder, black pepper powder, and mix well.

• Now coat the marinated chicken pieces in the cornflour mixture, toss them well so that they have even coated all over. Do not discard the leftover marinade mix, keep it aside as it is a concoction of strong flavors of ginger and garlic paste which is very important to enhance the taste of this dish.

• In a frying pan heat 2 tablespoons of oil, add the chicken pieces to the hot oil, and cook for about20 minutes over medium flame

• Do not cover the lid, stir occasionally to ensure chicken is cooked evenly, and cook until the color is changed, tender and crispy. You could check by pricking a fork if the chicken pieces are cooked through.

• To the leftover marinade mix that we kept aside earlier add tomato sauce and chili sauce and mix well.

• Pour the mixture over the fried chicken, this mixture is packed with the flavor of ginger and garlic which will add that extra oomph to the dish.

• Mix well so that the pieces are well coated and flavors are evenly distributed, cook about 2 minutes.

• Ginger Garlic Chicken is ready to serve, serve it hot with rice or noodles or as even just as a starter