Chicken with dried chillies

January 1, 2015 Posted by Shweta Shanbhag

Tried this awesome Chicken with dried red chillies in Singapore at a restaurant called Fatty Weng in the heard of Singapore City.

The flavours of almost burnt red chillies complimented the chicken so well that I had to recreate this. But now knowing the recipe, I tried to search online and came across a few recipes. This is my own version which is a mish mash of a few recipes based on the flavours I remembered from my trip.

Ingredients

500 gms of chicken with bones

10 dried red chillies

1 inch ginger3 garlic cloves peeled and grated

3 tsp soya sauce

2 tsp red chilli sauce

1/2 tsp pepper

1/2 tsp honey

2 tsp vinegar

Handful of peanuts

1 tsp pepper powder

1 tsp honey

2 tbsp olive oil

Spring onions for garnishing

Salt

Method

Marinate 500 gms of chicken with bones with 2 tsp soya sauce, 3 garlic cloves peeled and grated, 1 tsp red chilli sauce, 1 tsp vinegar, 1 tsp pepper powder 1 tsp honey and salt and keep aside for an hour.
Take 2 tbsp olive oil in a pan and heat it. When hot, deep fry 10 dried red chillies and keep aside. In the same oil deep fry 1 inch ginger which is cut into long thin slices and keep aside. Fry handful of peanuts and keep aside
In the same oil, sear the chicken in batches along with the marinade till they are almost cooked.
Make a mixture of 1 tsp soya sauce, 1/2 tsp red chilli sauce, pepper, 1/2 tsp honey and 1/2 tsp vinegar or according to your taste, add 1 tsp of cornflour and keep it aside.
Add back the chillies, ginger and peanuts and the above marinade. Mix well and stir fry for 5 more minutes. Garnish with spring onions cut into long thin slices.