The chicken Manchurian recipe is the tastiest, delicious, and popular Indo-Chinese food recipe that everybody loves to eat all across the Sub continent. Prepared with fried chicken tossing in a hot and sour sauce along with onion and bell peppers that make it perfect for dinner or lunch. Mostly served with fried rice.
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What is Chicken Manchurian?
The Ultimate Taste of Indo Chinese Food
It's a transformation of authentic Chinese Manchurian by adding Indian flavor. So the food fusion of Indian taste with Chinese recipe makes a perfect dish that compel everyone to eat. No only in India the recipe is also famous in Pakistan and Bangladesh and people love to have restaurant-style Chicken Manchurian with fried rice for lunch and dinner.
Who Invented This Recipe?
If you are curious to know the origin of this recipe, so here I'd like to share the Chinese chef Nelson Wang (Calcutta born) derived this idea to create a food fusion of Indian and Chinese flavor.
The recipe of chicken manchurian has so many variations as every chef makes it in their own style until or unless the taste is not compromised. The sweet and sour taste of chicken manchurian with fried chicken makes it extremely delicious. The restaurant style sizzling serving of manchurian also fascinate everyone to have.
Why I love this Recipe?
In Indo-Chinese recipes, I personally love this combination as it's most suited for every Indian and Chinese taste buds. My son loves chicken with sweet and sour flavor so I make it for him. If you have kids at home they must like this recipe.
I have tried the Chicken Manchurian recipe in so many different ways. In fact, every time I make it, I try to add variations but this recipe is the most classy in terms of taste and super easy to make in the home kitchen. Chinese Master chef John Zhang recipe is the perfect blend of Indian and Chinese Manchurian.
Sauce Option (Gravy Or Dry)
Mostly Indian people like to have chicken in gravy (sauce). So if you have two options to make this recipe.
- Chicken Manchurian Gravy: If you want to have your Manchurian with gravy or with a lot of sauce then you can add slurry (Make a paste of cornstarch with water) and add it in your Manchurian until it starts to get bubbly and thick. You can manage the desired consistency of gravy according to your taste.
- How to Make Chicken Manchurian Dry: Don't add slurry (Cornflour paste) and simply toss the crispy fried chicken in hot and sour sauce.
8 Tips to Make Restaurant Style
- Don't make a thick layer of cornstarch on chicken otherwise, it will be soggy in sauce. Just a thin layer so the chicken fry with a crispy and crunchy texture.
- Don't fry chicken to get golden brown color. It needs to slightly brown in color to get the perfect taste in the sauce.
- Freshly grated garlic creates a perfect taste and aroma so avoid using garlic paste.
- Use purple onion (Indian onion) rather using white onion.
- Cut the veggies in uniform style so the dish looks more tempting in terms of presentation.
- Soya sauce is salty in taste so monitor the salt quantity.
- White vinegar in sauce creates a perfect taste rather than using lemon juice or apple cider.
- Roasted sesame and spring onion make perfect garnishing.
How to Make This Recipe
Well, it's so simple and easy to make "Chicken Manchurian Recipe" at home and you will have the same flavor that you get in restaurants.
The sizzling aroma of chicken Manchurian makes it more presentable that tempts to eat. Fried Chicken in hot and sour sauce creates a divine taste in the mouth.
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Main Ingredients of Chicken Manchurian
Egg White + Corn Flour + Salt = Makes Perfect coating for chicken.
Cooking Oil - To deep fry the chicken in a light golden brown color.
Oil + Grated Garlic = Makes the perfect combination for sauteing veggies.
Bell peppers, onion, and carrots - Veggies to add in Manchurian
Dark Soya Sauce, Oyster Sauce, White Vinegar, and Brown Sugar - Creates mouthwatering taste of the sauce.
Salt and Peppers - For seasoning.
Roasted Sesame - to make the tempting garnish.
Making is so simple and easy, first, beat egg white and add cornstarch to make a smooth paste. Now add chicken pieces in paste and coat well. Deep fry the chicken to get light golden brown color. Now in a separate pan, heat up oil and saute grated garlic for few seconds. Add veggies and pan-fried it for few seconds. Don't cook the veggies too long. Now add salt and pepper, dark soya sauce, oyster sauce, vinegar, and brown sugar, and give it a good mix. Splash veg stock and add fried chicken in sauce. Cook on high heat until everything gets to blend in the sauce. Garnish with roasted sesame.
Why I Used Brown Sugar?
Because the caramelization process of sugar makes a perfect velvety sauce texture and improve taste. It's not to make the dish sweet but to enhance the flavor of dish.
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Chicken Manchurian Recipe
Materials
- Boneless and skinless chicken breasts - 200 gms
- Green bell pepper - ½ Cup
- Red bell pepper - ½ Cup
- Purple Onion - ½ Cup
- Carrots - ½ Cup
- Grated Garlic - 1 Tsp
- Egg White - 1
- Corn Starch - 1 Tbsp
- Salt - ½ Tsp
- Black Pepper - ½ Tsp
- Dark Soya Sauce - 1 Tsp
- White Vinegar - 1 Tsp
- Oyster Sauce - 1 Tsp
- Brown Sugar - 1 Tsp
- Veg Stock - ½ cup optional
- Roasted Sesame for garnish
Instructions
- In a blow, add egg white, salt and beat well.
- Now add cornstarch and make a fine paste.
- Add boneless chicken pieces in paste and perfect coat.
- Now deep fry the chicken pieces until it gets a slightly golden brown color.
- Heat up the pan, add oil and grated garlic and saute for few seconds until the garlic becomes aromatic and starts to change color.
- Now add bell peppers, onion, and carrot.
- Saute for few seconds.
- Add dark soya sauce, oyster sauce, vinegar, salt, and peppers.
- Add veg stock or water and mix well.
- Now add fried chicken and give it a good toss.
- Cook for few minutes without covering until everything is nice and blended in a hot and sour sauce.
- Chicken Manchurian is ready to eat!
- Dish it out on a sizzling dish and garnish with sesame and spring onion.
- Serve it with rice or noodles.
Notes
- If you want to make Chicken Manchurian with gravy then add slurry (Cornstarch paste) and cook on high heat to get desired gravy thickness.
- Don't cook for too long otherwise, the veggies will be blend in curry.
- Avoid using cornstarch paste (slurry) if you want to have chicken Manchurian dry!
- Don't use too much cornstarch to coat chicken. Lightly coated chicken makes better taste in sauce otherwise the chicken will become soggy in sauce.
- Fry chicken to get the light golden brown color to get perfect taste in the sauce.
- Freshly grated garlic creates a perfect taste and aroma so avoid using garlic paste.
- Use purple onion (Indian onion) rather using white onion.
- Cut the veggies in uniform style so the dish looks more tempting in terms of presentation.
Soya sauce is salty in taste so monitor the salt quantity.
White vinegar in sauce creates a perfect taste rather than using lemon juice or apple cider.
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Quick and easy 'Chicken Manchurian' recipe to make at home. It's a most popular Indo Chinese food that people love to eat in restaurants.