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Today, Reshma shares with us this recipe for Dragon Chicken.

Ingredients:

• 500 gm boneless chicken breast
• 1 tbsp soya sauce
• 1 tbsp red chilli sauce
• 2 tbsp ginger garlic paste
• 1 tsp pepper
• 1/2 cup maida
• 1/4 cup corn flour
• 2 tbsp tomato ketchup
• 2 tsp sugar
• 2 whole dry red chilli
• 1 egg
• 1 bunch spring onion (bulb and the leaves chopped separately)
• 1 green capsicum
• 1 bell pepper (optional)
• Coriander leaves
• 2 tbsp cashews, broken into small pieces
• Salt to taste
• Oil
• 1 cube cheese, grated

Method:

• Cut the chicken into long strips. Wash well.
• Marinate it in 1/2 tbsp soya sauce, 1/2 tbsp chilli sauce, 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste to the bowl and all of the pepper, egg, maida and corn flour in a bowl for 3 to 4 hours
• Deep fry the chicken pieces (It takes approximately ten minutes for each lot of chicken to be fried completely.)
• In another pan to 3 tbsp oil, add cashews, 2 whole red chillis and let them splutter and then saute the capsicum, onions and bell peppers.
• Add the remaining soya sauce, chilli sauce, ginger garlic paste and salt as well as the tomato ketchup and sugar.
• Let the contents simmer for 5 minutes.
• Saute the fried chicken pieces for about 2-3 minutes.
• Garnish with spring onion and fresh coriander leaves.

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