Ingredients

1. Chicken (cut into small pieces or nuggets) - 300 gms

Marinade

2. Light soya sauce - 1 tsp
3. Vinegar - 1 tsp
4. Salt as required
5. Ajinomoto - 1/4 tsp
6. Pepper powder - a pinch

Batter

7. Corn flour - 3 tsp
8. Maida (plain flour) - 2 tsp
9. Salt as per taste
10. Pepper powder - a pinch
11. Baking powder or sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) - a pinch (optional)
12. Egg – 1

Sauce

13. Oil - 1 1/2 tbsp
14. Dry chillies - 3
15. Green chillies – 3 to 4 chopped finely
16. Garlic – 2 to 3 crushed and chopped finely
17. Ajinomoto - a pinch (optional)
18. Dark soya sauce - 1 tbsp
19. Ketchup or tomato sauce - 5 tbsp
20. Pepper - a pinch
21. Sugar – 1/2 tsp
22. Crushed chilli powder – 1/2 tsp
23. Water - 1/3 cup
24. Cornstarch – 1/3 cup (corn flour 1/2 to 1 tsp + a little less than 1/3 cup water)
25. Spring onions (chopped) - 3
26. Capsicum (green) – 1/2
27. Capsicum (red) – 1/2

Method

1. Cut the capsicum in square cut and keep it aside.
2. Chop the spring onions both white and green part.

Marinate

3. Take a bowl, and marinate the chicken with soya sauce, vinegar and other ingredients for 1/2 hr.

Batter

4. Take a another bowl and add all ingredients for the batter, first add all dry ingredients and then add chicken marinate and at last egg and mix well, the mixture should not be too watery. Or if you want can make separate batter and just dip each chicken piece in the batter and fry it in deep oil.
5. Chicken should be well coated with the batter.
6. Deep fry the chicken pieces and keep it aside. As the pieces are small, it will get cooked soon, cook till it is cooked well, do not over cook also. After cooking, drain it on the kitchen paper.

Sauce

7. Heat oil in a wider pan or any vessel, add garlic stir it quickly, then green chillies and spring onions (2), stir it, after 15 sec, add all sauces, including sugar, stir quickly so that it is not burnt.
8. After adding all sauces, add crushed chilli powder and water and cook till the sauce is cooked well. It will not take much time.
9. After sometime (5 to8 min), when the sauce is cooked well, the rawness of all ingredients has gone, add spring onions (1) and capsicum, mix well.
10. Now add cornstarch and mix well, and let it cook for 2min, so that rawness of cornstarch is gone and the sauce becomes thick.
11. If the sauce is getting dry, add few tables’ spoons of water and cook it. Check with salt and also add a pinch of pepper powder.
12. Now add chicken pieces at last and mix well with the sauce for 2min.
13. When the chicken pieces are coated well in the sauce, add few chopped spring onions at last and switch it off.
14. Serve with any fried rice or serve it as a starter.

Notes

1. If you want you can avoid ajinomoto and soda also.
2. Check with the seasoning. I mean salt.
3. I like spicy food, so I have added crushed chilli powder; if you want you can avoid it.
4. My batter mixture became little thin but it has to be nor very thin nor thick, it should be like frying any fritters.
5. I added capsicum in the beginning itself, before adding cornstarch, if you want first add cornstarch and cook it then at last add capsicum and chicken pieces.