Chilli chicken is a popular
Indo-Chinese dish of chicken of
Hakka Chinese
Hakka (, , ) forms a language group of varieties of Chinese, spoken natively by the Hakka people throughout Southern China and Taiwan and throughout the diaspora areas of East Asia, Southeast Asia and in overseas Chinese communities aroun ...
heritage.
In India, this may include a variety of dry chicken preparations.
Though mainly boneless chicken is used in this dish, some people also use bone-in chicken too.
Recipes
Chilli chicken comes in several variations with differences in spices and seasoning, as well as its "sauce" and "dry" variants with differences in their quantity of sauce or gravy.
The South Asian contributions of this dish are in the spices used, while the Hakka contributions include the sweet and savoury flavours along with the
Chinese cooking techniques
Chinese cooking techniques () are a set of methods and techniques traditionally used in Chinese cuisine. The cooking techniques can either be grouped into ones that use a single cooking method or a combination of wet and dry cooking methods.
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used in its preparation.
Numerous recipes exist for the dish of the same name depending on the restaurateur, including:
*Green chilli chicken.
*Tangrai chilli chicken.
*Chinese chilli chicken.
*Bengal chilli chicken.
See also
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Chili shrimp
Chili shrimp ( or ) is a dish of stir-fried shrimp in chilli sauce (which may use doubanjiang) in Chinese cuisine. It is a part of both Sichuan and Shanghai cuisines.
In Japanese Chinese cuisine, ''ebi-chiri'' ( ja, エビチリ) is derived fr ...
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Laziji
Laziji () is a dish of Sichuan cuisine. It is a stir-fried dish, which consists of marinated then deep-fried pieces of chicken, dried Sichuan chilli peppers, spicy bean paste, Sichuan peppers, garlic, and ginger.
Toasted sesame seeds and slice ...
, similar dish in authentic
Sichuan cuisine in China
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Indian Chinese cuisine
Indian Chinese cuisine, Chinese Indian cuisine, Sino-Indian cuisine, Chindian cuisine, Hakka Chinese or Desi-Chinese cuisine is a distinct fusion culinary style that combines aspects of both Indian and Chinese foods and flavours. Though Asian ...
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List of chicken dishes
This is a list of chicken dishes. Chicken is the most common type of poultry in the world, and was one of the first domesticated animals. Chicken is a major worldwide source of meat and eggs for human consumption. It is prepared as food in a wi ...
References
Indian chicken dishes
Pakistani chicken dishes
Indo-Caribbean cuisine
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