Chilli chicken is a popular
Indo-Chinese dish that uses
chicken
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, and is of
Chinese heritage.
In
India
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, this may include a variety of dry chicken preparations.
Though mainly boneless chicken is used in this dish, some recipes also use bone-in chicken.
Due to the large amount of Hakka migrants opening up Chinese-Indo restaurants in India, a large misconception is that Chilli Chicken is of Hakka origin, when in fact it is of Cantonese origins. Many Hakkas that migrated to India are from the Cantonese regions of China and have brought Cantonese style cooking with them.
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 Cantonese contributions include the sweet and savoury flavours along with the
Chinese cooking techniques 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
*
Chili shrimp
*
Laziji, similar dish in authentic
Sichuan cuisine
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in China
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Indian Chinese cuisine
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List of chicken dishes
References
Indian cuisine
Chicken dishes
Indian Chinese cuisine
Indian chicken dishes
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