Andhra Chilli Chicken | Bangalore Restaurant Style Chilli Chicken

Do you like spicy food? Spicy as in really spicy that will bring tears in your eyes and turn your face red yet you will be relishing the dish.. If you can relate to it then this is the dish for you..:) Go ahead and try this super tasty and fiery hot Andhra chilli chicken - Restaurant style :-)

Andhra chilli chicken is a famous chicken dish from Andhra Style restaurants in Bangalore. This is a fiery hot dish with a lot of green chillies. If you have eaten this in Nandini or Nagarjuna residency in Bangalore you will be able to relate to the spiciness of this dish. After many iterations I have come up with with this recipe, the taste is very close to restaurant style chilli chicken. 

I add fried onion and long non spicy variety chillies that gives a nice flavor to the dish. You can either replace long chillies with regular chillies or skip it completely.

Ingredients:

Chicken: 1 kg

Sliced Onion: 3

Non spicy variety green chillies: 8-10

Spicy green chillies :8-10

Coriander leaves: 1 big cup

Mint: 1 big cup

Ginger garlic paste: 2 tbsp

Lemon juice: 1 big lemon

Corn flour: 2 tbsp

Turmeric: 1 tsp

Crushed black pepper: 1 tsp

Salt to taste

Oil: 3 tbsp

Method: 

1. Grind coriander leaves, mint leaves, ginger garlic paste and spicy green chillies to a coarse paste in a blender.

2. Add salt, corn flour and lemon juice to the ground paste and marinate the cleaned chicken for 2 hours.

3. Heat oil in a wok and fry non spicy variety chillies and remove and keep aside.

4. Fry sliced onion in the same oil until golden brown and remove.

5. Fry marinated chicken in the remaining oil until the raw smell disappears (about 10 mins)

6. Add a cup of water, cover and cook for 10-15 mins or until the chicken is cooked.

7. Add fried chillies and onions and mix well, sauté on high flame for 5 mins.

8. Sprinkle crushed black pepper and a little more lemon juice for extra tanginess and turn off the flame.

Fiery hot andhra chilli chicken is ready to serve. 

Notes:

1. Original dish is very spicy but you can reduce or increase the number of chillies as per your taste.