Chicken Manchurian with Egg Vegetable Fried Rice

Chicken Manchurian with Egg Vegetable Fried Rice 

Recipe:

Chicken Manchurian

Ingredients:

Manchurian Chicken:

• 1 lb chicken meat, cut into 1inch square pieces
• 1 1⁄2 tablespoons corn-flour
• 1 beaten egg
• 1 1⁄2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• Salt to taste
• Ground black pepper

Manchurian Sauce:

• 2 tablespoons cooking oil
• 2 tablespoons crushed ginger
• 2 tablespoons crushed garlic
• 1 chopped spring onion
• 1 cup chicken stock
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄4 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 1⁄4 teaspoon sugar
• 1⁄4 teaspoon Chinese salt
• 2 tablespoons cornflour, dissolved in 1⁄4 cup water (for sauce)
• 1 tablespoon ketchup
• 1 tablespoon tomato puree

Method:

• Mix corn flour, flour, salt and pepper with the beaten egg to make the batter.
• Dip the chicken pieces in the batter, deep fry till golden brown. Keep aside.
• For the Manchurian sauce, heat oil in a pan.
• Lightly fry garlic and ginger till they just change color.
• Reduce heat and add chicken stock, soy sauce, salt, sugar, pepper, Chinese salt, tomato ketchup & puree. Cook for 5 minutes.
• Add corn flour mixed with water and give one boil.
• Add fried chicken and 3/4^th of spring onions & cook for 1 minute.
• Serve with egg vegetable fried rice after sprinkling remaining spring onions.

Egg Vegetable Fried Rice:

Ingredients:

• 2 cups Rice
• 5 – 6 Spring Onion
• 1 small Cabbage
• 1 Carrot
• 2 Eggs
• 5 – 6 large tbsp Oil
• 1 tspf Salt
• 3 tbsf Soy Sauce
• 1 tbsf Vinegar (if you like. I don’t use vinegar)
• 1tsp Black Pepper powder
• 1 packet Knorr Chicken Cubes (containing 2 cubes) 

Method:

• Finely chop the vegetables.
• Boil rice with salt. Boil till rice is 75 – 80% soft not more than that. Then keep aside.
• Beat both eggs with a little bit of orange food color
• In a wok, fry beaten eggs and chop into small pieces while frying. Take fried eggs out and keep aside in a bowl
• Put more oil in wok and add chopped cabbage and carrots.
• Add soy sauce, pepper and Knorr chicken cubes in the vegetable and fry till cubes are melted
• Add fried chopped eggs in the wok and stir
• Add boiled rice and mix well with the contents in the wok
• Now add Spring Onion in the end on the top of the rice(as Spring Onion taste better when minimally cooked and are fresh, green and crunchy).
• Sprinkle a little bit of soy sauce and black/ white pepper and cover the wok with lid. 
• After around 5 - 7 mins, remove the lid and stir to mix the spring onions and the rice are ready to be served with chicken manchurian.

~ Enjoy! :)