Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, general tso chicken. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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.
General Tso Chicken is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. General Tso Chicken is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to 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
- Get 1 Egg White
- Prepare 2 Tbs Soy Sauce
- Make ready 2 Tbs Dry Sherry
- Take 2 Tbs Chinese Cooking Wine
- Get 1/4 tsp Baking Soda
- Make ready 3 Tbs Corn Starch
- Make ready 1 tsp Course ground black pepper
- Prepare 8-10 Boneless skinless chicken thighs
- Take Coating
- Take 1/2 C Flour
- Get 1/2 C Corn Starch
- Take 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
- Take 1/2 tsp Salt
- Get Sauce
- Get 3 Tbs Soy Sauce
- Prepare 2 Tbs Chinese Cooking Wine
- Get 2 Tbs Rice Vinegar
- Take 3 Tbs Chicken Stock
- Take 4 Tbs White Sugar
- Take 5 tsp Sesame Oil
- Take 1 Tbs Corn Starch
- Prepare 2 tsp Peanut Oil
- Make ready 2 tsp Minced Garlic
- Prepare 2 tsp Minced Ginger
- Make ready 1 Minced green onion
- Get 1 tsp Red pepper flakes
- Make ready 6 Green Onions cut in 1/2 - 1 inch lengths
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. Next time you're craving General Tso chicken, skip the takeout and make it at home! It's one of those classic Chinese dishes that is super popular and has tons of flavor.
Instructions 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.
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. We garnish the General Tso's Chicken with shredded scallion and chopped red chiles. It is not necessary to have elaborate garnishing, as the chicken will disappear from the plate in no time.
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