Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, general tso chicken cutlets. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
General Tso Chicken Cutlets is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. General Tso Chicken Cutlets is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
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 is a favorite Chinese food takeout choice that is sweet and slightly spicy with a kick from garlic and ginger.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook general tso chicken cutlets using 20 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make General Tso Chicken Cutlets:
- Prepare cutlets
- Prepare 1 lb boneless skinless chicken
- Prepare 1 large egg
- Take 1 tbsp hot sauce (optional)
- Prepare 3 tbsp corn starch
- Get salt
- Make ready ground black pepper
- Prepare optional breading
- Prepare flour or bread crumbs (optional)
- Take Tso sauce
- Get 1/2 cup Chicken broth or water
- Get 1/3 cup brown sugar
- Take 1 tbsp corn starch
- Prepare 3 tbsp hoisin sauce
- Get 3 tbsp catsup
- Get 2 tbsp soy sauce
- Get 1 tsp dried ground ginger
- Take crushed red pepper (optional)
- Make ready cooking
- Prepare oil for pan frying
Difference between General Tso and other Chinese dishes. There are several Chinese dishes that have somewhat of a similar taste. General Tso's can be more than the saccharine, gloopy sauce soaked into flabby, over-breaded chicken to which we've become accustomed. General Tso Chicken, Sesame Chicken or Orange Chicken from a Chinese restaurant, the base sauce reicpe is the same, they simply add spice to the We did use chicken breasts instead of thighs but literally was the best General's we've ever tasted.
Steps to make General Tso Chicken Cutlets:
- Place each piece of chicken, one at a time, between plastic wrap. Pound to about 1/2 inch thick.
- Mix all the cutlet ingredients (first 5 after the chicken) except the chicken, together in a bowl large enough to hold all the chicken.
- Add the chicken cutlets to the the bowl, mix well. Set aside.
- Mix all tso sauce (every thing else but the oil and bread crumbs) ingredients. I used about 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper for a little heat. Adjust to your taste.
- Added enough oil to a skillet to come up about 1/4 - 1/3 way up the cutlets. Set on medium to medium-high heat.
- I use the cutlets as is, the corn starch coating gives it slight crunch, but if you desire a thicker breading, dredge in seasoned flour or coat with bread crumbs.
- Add cutlets to hot oil, fry until golden, flip, fry other side. Depending on your thickness, 2-4 minutes a side.
- Set each cooked cutlet out to drain.
- When all cutlets are fried, remove all but about a tablespoon of oil.
- Give the tso sauce one final stir, the add to the skillet. Bring to a boil, boil for about 1 minute, until thick. Turn heat down to medium - medium low.
- Adds cutlets back to skillet to warm back up and coat with the sauce.
- Serve with rice, noodles or a side of your choice (couscous shown here)
- Note - I am using both chicken breast and chicken thighs in these pictures.
The sauce was wonderful, could really taste the. The Hunanese have a strong military tradition, and Tso is one of their best-known historical figures. But although many Chinese dishes are named after famous personages, there is no. Way better than takeout and just as fast, too, it's gluten-free, grain free, and free of refined sugar and soy. Spicy and sweet, it's great served over cauliflower rice or with your favorite stir fried veggies!
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