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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. Remove chicken from wine/soy marinade and place in flour mixture.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook general tso's chicken using 18 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make General Tso's Chicken:
- Get 200 g boneless skinless chicken thighs cut into bite size
- Make ready 1 egg white
- Prepare 1 tbsp dark soy sauce
- Make ready 1 tbsp Shaoxing wine
- Make ready 1/4 cup cornstarch
- Make ready 1/4 cup all purpose flour
- Prepare pinch salt
- Prepare 3 tbsp dark soy sauce
- Make ready 2 tbsp Shaoxing wine
- Take 2 tbsp rice vinegar
- Get 3 tbsp chicken stock
- Prepare 4 tbsp sugar
- Get 1 tsp sesame oil
- Prepare 1 tbsp cornstarch
- Get 2 cloves garlic minced
- Prepare 1 inch ginger minced
- Make ready 1 stalk spring onion chopped
- Take 4 red chilies sliced
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:
- Put the chicken into a mixing bowl, add the egg white, dark soy sauce, Shaoxing wine and mix it. Cover with plastic wrap and marinade it for at least 30 minutes.
- Now to make the batter, put the flour, cornstarch and salt into another plate and start coating the marinated chicken one by one into the flour.
- Deep-fried the chicken until they are brown on the outside. Once the chicken is fully cooked, drain it with paper towel and set it aside.
- For the sauce, combine the dark soy sauce, Shaoxing wine, rice vinegar, chicken stock, sugar, sesame oil, and cornstarch into a bowl. Stir it with a fork until the cornstarch dissolve. Set it aside.
- In a skillet, add 1 tbsp of oil and start cooking the garlic, ginger, spring onion and chilies in a medium high heat until they are aromatic and soft, about 3 minutes.
- Pour the sauce into the skillet and cook it, stir it until the sauce boils and thicken.
- Reduce the heat to low and add the chicken back to the skillet. Coat the chicken with the sauce until all pieces are thoroughly coated.
- Garnish it with some spring onion and serve with 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. Skip the takeout and make this delicious General Tso's chicken at home! You'll fall in love with the sweet and spicy sauce poured over the crispy, juicy chicken. This is truly a restaurant-style recipe! An easy General Tso's chicken recipe that yields crispy chicken without deep-frying.
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