Ingredients:

• 1/2 kg – boneless Chicken
• 2 – whole Lime (extract juice)
• 2 tbsp – Sugar
• 1 pinch – ajinomoto
• Salt – to taste
• 1 tbsp – Corn flour
• 1/2 tsp – ginger-garlic paste
• 6 tbsp – refined oil (for frying the chicken)
• 1 – medium sized chopped Onion
• 2 Cloves – garlic, finely chopped
• 2 – Celery leaves for garnishing

Method:

1. Mix 1/2 cup of water into the sugar and make a thick syrup.
2. Mix the lime juice in it, stir and simmer it for sometime (syrup should be thick). Keep it aside.
3. Marinate the chicken pieces with corn flour, ginger paste and salt.
4. Heat the oil in a non-stick kadai.
5. Fry the marinated pieces till brown in colour.
6. Keep it aside after it’s fried.
7. Fry the chopped onions, garlic till pink in colour.
8. Lower the flame and add the fried chicken pieces, adding the sweet and sour syrup for some time.
9. Add the celery leaves into it.
10. Simmer for some time, adding ajinomoto to it.

Recipe courtesy of Lipika