Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, general tso's chicken. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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General Tso's chicken (pronounced [tswò]) is a sweet deep-fried chicken dish that is served in North American Chinese restaurants. The dish is named after Zuo Zongtang. General Tso's Chicken was one of my favorite college days late night Chinese food delivery orders.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have general tso's chicken using 25 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make General Tso's Chicken:
- Get 4 skillets chicken (cut diced)
- Take 5 dried chillies (cur half)
- Take 1 spring onion (thinly sliced)
- Prepare Cooking oil
- Get Marinade (min 30 minutes)
- Get Chicken
- Take 1 tbsp light soy sauce
- Make ready 3 tbsp cornstarch
- Prepare 1 tsp pepper
- Prepare 1 tbsp all purpose flour
- Prepare 1 egg (mix before fry)
- Take Sauce
- Make ready 2 tbsp dark soy sauce
- Prepare 2 tbsp oyster sauce
- Make ready 3 garlic (finely chopped)
- Prepare Ginger (finely chopped)
- Prepare 2 tbsp sugar
- Prepare 2 tbsp vinegar
- Prepare 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- Make ready 1 tsp pepper
- Make ready 1 tbsp cornstarch
- Take Water to dillute
- Make ready Garnish
- Take Sesame seeds
- Take Spring onion
This recipe for General Tso's chicken is battered crispy chicken pieces tossed in a sweet and spicy sauce. A take-out classic that's simple to make at home and even better than what you'd get in a. General Tso's Chicken was supposedly named after Zuo Zongtang, a military leader from Hunan province during the Qing Dynasty. Some say this dish was invented and named by the Taiwanese.
Steps to make General Tso's Chicken:
- Prepare all ingredients. Cut the chicken itu bite size, and then in a mixing bowl mix with cornstarch and white pepper. Marinade for minimum 30 minutes (I did it overnight).
- Meanwhile, prepare the sauce. Mix altogether in a bowl. Then add a beaten egg and all purpose flour to the marinated chicken.
- Heat the pan, put some cooking oil, and fry the chicken until it is golden brown and cooked.
- Heat some oil again, now sauteé the dried chillies and onion. Next, put the sauce in, and mixed with the leftover batter (egg and flour) until it's thickened. Last, put the chicken in and let the sauce cover all the chicken's surface.
- Garnish with sesame seeds and spring onion. Serve with hot white rice.
This lighter General Tso's Chicken is made with chunks of white meat chicken breast, lightly wok sautéed with an easy, healthier stir-fry sauce, and less than half the calories than if you ordered. An easy General Tso's chicken recipe that yields crispy chicken without deep-frying. It also uses much less sugar while maintaining a great bold taste. Once you've tried it, you'll skip takeout next time. It does result in crispy pieces of chicken that are so like you find in a restaurant.
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