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Crispy Chestnuts-Cook Smart

Chestnuts mixed with spices, deep fried and further cooked in a spicy spring onion mixture This recipe is from FoodFood TV channel

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Crispy Chestnuts-Cook Smart

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Main Ingredients Tinned chestnuts, Oil
Cuisine Chinese
Course Main Course Vegetarian
Prep Time 0-5 minutes
Cook time 16-20 minutes
Serve 4
Taste Spicy
Level of Cooking Easy
Others Veg

Ingredients list for Crispy Chestnuts-Cook Smart

  • 1 cup Tinned chestnuts
  • 1 tablespo to deep fry Oil
  • 2 teaspoons Cornflour
  • 2 teaspoons Refined flour (maida)
  • to taste Salt
  • 1 teaspoon Soy sauce
  • 4 tablespoons Sweet red chilli sauce
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons Red chilli powder
  • 2 teaspoons Ginger finely chopped
  • 2 teaspoons Garlic finely chopped
  • 4 Spring onions with greens

Method

  1. Heat sufficient oil in a kadai.
  2. Take chestnuts in a bowl. Add cornflour , refined flour, salt, soy sauce, 1 tablespoon red chilli sauce and ½ teaspoon red chilli powder and mix well.
  3. Deep-fry chestnuts in hot oil till golden and crisp.
  4. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a non-stick wok.
  5. Cut spring onion bulbs into roundels. Reserve the greens.
  6. Add the spring onion bulb roundels, ginger and garlic to the wok and saute till golden.
  7. Add remaining red chilli sauce and remaining red chilli powder, mix well and saute for 2 minutes.
  8. Cut reserved spring onion greens into roundels.
  9. Drain the chestnuts and add to the wok, mix and cook for a minute.
  10. Serve hot garnished with spring onion green roundels.
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