Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, general tso chicken. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
General Tso Chicken is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. General Tso Chicken is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
Remove chicken from wine/soy marinade and place in flour mixture. Mix thoroughly, until all the chicken pieces are coated. General Tso's Chicken was one of my favorite college days late night Chinese food delivery orders.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have general tso chicken using 28 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make General Tso Chicken:
- Get Marinade
- Prepare 1 Egg White
- Take 2 Tbs Soy Sauce
- Make ready 2 Tbs Dry Sherry
- Make ready 2 Tbs Chinese Cooking Wine
- Prepare 1/4 tsp Baking Soda
- Make ready 3 Tbs Corn Starch
- Prepare 1 tsp Course ground black pepper
- Make ready 8-10 Boneless skinless chicken thighs
- Take Coating
- Make ready 1/2 C Flour
- Get 1/2 C Corn Starch
- Make ready 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
- Make ready 1/2 tsp Salt
- Make ready Sauce
- Get 3 Tbs Soy Sauce
- Get 2 Tbs Chinese Cooking Wine
- Take 2 Tbs Rice Vinegar
- Take 3 Tbs Chicken Stock
- Get 4 Tbs White Sugar
- Make ready 5 tsp Sesame Oil
- Take 1 Tbs Corn Starch
- Make ready 2 tsp Peanut Oil
- Prepare 2 tsp Minced Garlic
- Prepare 2 tsp Minced Ginger
- Get 1 Minced green onion
- Take 1 tsp Red pepper flakes
- Prepare 6 Green Onions cut in 1/2 - 1 inch lengths
The original General Tso's chicken recipe was invented by the late chef Peng Chang-kuei. The spicy-sweet sauce is what sets General Tso's apart from its Chinese chicken counterparts. General Tso's chicken is a sweet, deep-fried chicken dish that is served in North American Chinese restaurants. This healthier lightened up version is wok sautéed instead of deep fried.
Steps to make General Tso Chicken:
- Cut chicken thighs in to 1 - 1 1/2 inch pieces
- Mix marinade ingredients in to a bowl. Ensure no lumps, then add the chicken pieces. Coat chicken well then set aside.
- Mix dry coating ingredients. Make sure it is well mixed. Set aside.
- Add about 1 inch of peanut oil to pot or stove top crock pot and begin heating oil to approx 350 degrees.
- While oil is heating, add the chicken from the marinade to the dry mix and coat each piece thoroughly.
- When oil is hot, add the chicken one piece at a time gently in to the oil. Fry for 5-6 minutes or until crispy and lightly browned. Remove chicken from the oil in to a paper towel lined dish. Repeat until all of the chicken is cooked.
- Sauce - Mix sauce ingredients in a bowl except for garlic, ginger, and minced green onion and 1/2 sliced green onion.
- Gently fry garlic, ginger, and minced green onion in fry pan with a little bit of peanut oil 2-3 minutes.
- Add mixed sauce ingredients to fry pan and simmer until thickened. As soon as sauce thickens, remove from heat. It is better to remove if from the fry pan and put in to a bowl.
- When the chicken has finished cooking, add in to the fry pan (no heat) that the sauce was cooked in. Pour the sauce over the cooked crispy chicken and mix very well to ensure each piece of chicken is coated. Garnish with the remaining 1/2 of sliced green onion.
- Serve over rice.
General Tso's chicken, with an extra-crisp coating that stays crisp even when coated in a glossy sauce that balances sweet, savory, and tart elements. [Photographs: J. Take a pic and share yours in the comments below! General Tso's Chicken goes by many names such as general tso chicken, general gau chicken and general tao chicken. It was originally named after a Chinese military leader from the Qing dynasty. General Tso's Chicken is a Chinese-American dish of fried chicken pieces that are breaded and tossed in a tangy sauce.
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