A quick
starter for the nearing weekend – Chicken Manchow
Ingredients to prepare chicken manchow:
Chicken – 500g
Noodles (regular) – 1 cube
Sugar – 1 Tsp
Cornflour – 1 Tbsp
All-purpose flour (Maida) – 1 Tbsp
Ginger – 2 Tbsp (Finely chopped)
Garlic - 2 Tbsp (Finely chopped)
Capsicum – ½ (Finely chopped)
Spring onion – 5-6 (Finely chopped)
Carrot – ½ (Finely chopped)
Cabbage – 5-6 leaves (Finely chopped)
Coriander – 2Ttbsp (Finely chopped)
Veg/Chic. Stock cube – ½ cube
Tomato ketchup – 2 Tbsp
Soya sauce – 3 Tbsp
Green chilly Sauce – 2 Tbsp
Ginger-garlic paste – 2 Tbsp
Salt, ajinomoto & black pepper to
taste
Oil
Procedure of Chicken Manchow:
Chic Prep:
Clean chicken and dice it into 1 cm
pieces. Marinate it with 1 Tbsp soya sauce, 2 Tbsp ginger-garlic paste, little
ajinomoto & salt and leave it to rest for 15 minutes. In a flat bottomed
pan, heat 1 Tbsp oil and sauté the chicken pieces until cooked well.
Noodles Prep:
Noodles that are used in the recipe
are the regular plain ones and not maggi, top ramen etc. Take a deep bottomed
pan with water enough to submerge the cube completely and bring it to a boil.
Sprinkle little salt for the boiling process to quicken and a tbsp of oil. Now
put in the noodles in the boiling water and let them cook to perfection. Strain
the water and mix cornflour and maida in the noodles. Leave it to rest for 10
minutes. Now take a frying pan on medium heat and pour 2-3 Tbsp oil. Fry the
noodles in small portions until they become crispy. Dab the excess oil on a
kitchen towel and store in an air-tight container.
Chicken Manchow prep:
Take a frying pan on low heat and put
1-2 Tbsp oil. Put in sugar and let it caramelize. Now goes the ginger and
garlic pieces. Once golden brown, put in capsicum, carrot and cabbage and let
them cook for few seconds. Next goes spring onion & coriander. Give all of
them a good stir and let them sauté for few seconds. Now crush in the stock
cube and stir well (We get the maggi veg/chicken stock cube in any grocery
store). Let not the veggies cook totally. Let the crunch retain.
Now it is time to pour in all the
sauces. Get going with all the sauces in accordance to your own palette.
The last part – season the dish with
the right amount of salt, pepper and ajinomoto. Turn off the heat.
And Just before serving, crush the
noodles and stir them into the chicken.
Enjoy the crunchy and spicy chicken manchow dish on a cool evening.
Cheers!!!
