Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, crockpot kung pao chicken. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Crockpot Kung Pao Chicken is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Crockpot Kung Pao Chicken is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
Chicken simmered in a spicy sauce and finished off with crisp sautéed red peppers and crunchy It's an even better feeling when that meal is as delicious as this Slow Cooker Kung Pao Chicken! There's a teensy bit of work involved before and after everything goes into the crockpot - But trust. This tasty Crockpot Kung Pao Chicken dish is full of sauce, spice, heat, and zing… and totally delicious served over rice!!
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have crockpot kung pao chicken using 22 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Crockpot Kung Pao Chicken:
- Take 2.5 lbs boneless, skinless chicken thighs
- Make ready 2 diced zucchini
- Get 5 diced red bell peppers
- Make ready 1 cup diced mushrooms (optional)
- Get 1/4 cup shredded carrots (optional)
- Make ready 1-2 cans water chestnuts
- Prepare 2 tsp sesame seeds
- Make ready 1.5 cups whole cashews
- Get 2 tbl minced garlic
- Get 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
- Prepare 1/2 tsp powdered ginger
- Prepare 3 tbl veg. oil
- Prepare 3 tbl water?
- Get 1 tbl baking soda
- Get 1 tsp sugar
- Make ready 2 tbl brown sugar
- Make ready 3 tbl corn starch
- Take 1 tbl white vinegar
- Make ready 1 cup low sodium soy sauce
- Get 3 tbl flour
- Take 2 cups rice (brown or white)
- Prepare to taste Salt and pepper
I can hardly believe I made such delicious Kung Pao Chicken in my crockpot! Slow Cooker Kung Pao Chicken Recipe. Forget take out and have this Crockpot Chicken and Broccoli instead! I love recipes like this, because it actually tastes better than take-out, you can schedule it to be ready exactly when you want it, and bonus it's healthier!
Steps to make Crockpot Kung Pao Chicken:
- Spray cooking spray in crockpot, add all ingredients except for flour and cashews. Stir, cover, and if you c an let marinate in crockpot an hour before turning on. Cook on low for 5 hours. Stir occasionally if you can
- One hour before done cooking remove approx 1-2 cups of the broth and make slurry with flour. Pour back into dish and stir. Cover and continue to cook on low for last hour so it can thicken.
- Start to cook rice this last hour (4 cups boiling water to 2 cups white rice)
- Salt and pepper to taste then add cashews and mix in. Enjoy!
Kung Pao chicken (Chinese: 宫保鸡丁; pinyin: Gōngbǎo jīdīng), also transcribed Gong Bao or Kung Po, is a spicy, stir-fried Chinese dish made with cubes of chicken, peanuts, vegetables (traditionally Welsh onion only), and chili peppers. Kung Pao Chicken is a popular favorite stir-fried dish in Chinese takeout restaurants in North America. But did you also know that Gong Bao or Kung Po (宫保鸡丁) is also a classic Szechuan dish that everyone loves in China? My husband is a huge fan of anything spicy so it's one of the dishes he gets. Kung Pao Chicken (宫保鸡丁) in Chinese is a stir-fried dish with chicken cubes, dried chili pepper and deep-fried peanuts.
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