Chicken Sweet and Sour Gravy

Though Chicken Sweet and Sour Gravy is a chinese recipe, but we prepare this dish as per Indian style. The combination of Pineapple, Tomato Ketchup makes the sauce a real Yammy. I love the flavor of sweet and sour recipe and you can make several other same recipes with prawn and fish. I prefer not to keep much sauce or gravy but maintain the quantity of gravy so that the chicken is lightly coated with sauce.

CHICKEN SWEET & SOUR GRAVY

Servings: 6
Ingredient:

Boneless Chicken - 500 g, cut into 1" pieces

Corn Flour or Corn Starch - 5 tbsp
Refined Flour - 1 and half tbsp
Baking powder - 1/4 th tbsp
Egg - 2 beaten
Tomato Ketchup - 4/5 tbsp

Pineapple Juice - 2 cups
Tinned Pineapple Slices - 1 or 2 slices cut into pieces (can get from grocery shop)

White Pepper Powder - 1 and 1/2  tbsp

Salt - as per taste
Chicken Stock - 2 cups or can increase as per requirement of Gravy
Ginger - 1" size, finely chopped
Garlic - 6/7 big cloves, finely chopped
Onion Pulp - 1 lagre
Green Capsicum - 1 medium (1" pieces cut into cubes)
Red Capsicum - 1 smaill (1" pieces cut into cubes)
Yellow Capsicum - 1 small (1" pieces cut into cubes)

Oil - as per requirement, can use olive oil.

Preparation of Chicken:  

Mix Chicken pieces with salt and white pepper, keep them for 30 minutes. Then add Corn Flour, Refined Flour and baking powder and mix well so that all the pieces are coated nicely. Dip the Chicken Pieces one by one in Beaten Eggs and deep fry them till the pieces turn golden brown. Keep them aside on absorbent paper.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Preparation of Gravy: 

Take a pan, Heat Oil, add finely chopped ginger and garlic, fry them for 1 minute,  then add Onion pulp and fry till they becomes transparent. Don't fry the onion too much. 

Then add Tomato Ketchup , Pineapple Juice, chicken stock. 

Then mix White Pepper, Salt, Brown Sugar ,Capsicums (green,yellow,red) cut into cubes and fry them for 2/3 minutes in medium flame. Add more Chicken Stock if Required and then corn Flour/Water mixture and stir well.

Add Pineapple Pieces and finally put pre-fried Chicken.

Cover the lid and cook them for 3/4 minutes in medium flame and then switch off the oven. Keep it covered for another 10 minutes. Serve Hot.