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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 begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have general tso's chicken using 21 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make General Tso's Chicken:
- Get 1 cup Chicken boneless in cubes
- Make ready 1 Spring Onion(greens only chop)
- Take Oil for frying
- Get For Marination
- Make ready 2 Tbsp Soya sauce
- Take 1 Tbsp Chilli sauce
- Take 1 Tbsp Vinegar
- Get 1 cup All Purpose Flour
- Get 1 Tsp Salt
- Make ready For Sauce
- Get 1 Tbsp Vegetable Oil
- Prepare 1 Tbsp Garlic Cloves finely chop
- Get 1 Tbsp Ginger Freshly grated
- Prepare 1/4 cup Dried Red Chilli pods
- Make ready 1/4 cup Soya sauce
- Get 1 Tbsp Apple Cider Vinegar
- Prepare 1 Tbsp Sugar
- Prepare 1/4 Tsp Salt (to taste)
- Take For Slurry
- Get 1 Tbsp Cornflour
- Make ready 1 Tbsp Water
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:
- Cut the boneless chicken in bite size cubes & prik with fork to absorb marinade.take a bowl & mix soya sauce,vinegar,chilli sauce,salt together nicely.
- Add chicken cubes in bowl & mix well to dip in marinade.cover the bowl & keep in fridge for 30 minutes least.mix salt in flour in another bowl to coat chicken later.
- Take out marinated chicken.add cubes of chicken in flour bowl & mix chicken in flour using hands.keep mixing for 3-5 minutes to coat all pieces well in flour.
- Heat oil in a wok for frying chicken. When the oil is hot enough,add chicken pieces in oil & fry to crisp golden colour over medium flame. Do not fry chicken at high heat,it might be left uncooked from inside. Take out chicken from oil & keep aside covered.
- Chop fresh garlic & giner finely.heat 1 tbsp vegetable oil in wok.add chop garlic ginger,fry a minute.then add dried red chilli pods & fry a minute or two at medium flame stirring frequently so as not to burn chillies.
- Add soya sauce,apple cider vinegar,salt, sugar in wok & stir till mixture is bubbling.keep flame low to melt sugar in sauce.
- Make slurry by mixing cornflour in water.slurry is made by mixing equal quantities of cornflour & water at room temperature.
- Add the remaining marinade juices in saue (if any present).give a quick mix then add slurry to wok & stir continuly as the sauce should begin to thicken in no time.there should be no lumps in sauce.
- Add fried chicken pieces to sauce & mix well to coat them in sauce. Now the chicken & sauce are well incorporated.sprinkle some chop spring onions greens in wok.turn off heat.
- Serve hot General Tso's Chicken with Garlic Fried Rice or Egg Fried Rice or Plain Rice and enjoy this spicer sweet delicacy with Cookpad.
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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