Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, general tsao chicken. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
General Tsao Chicken is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. General Tsao Chicken is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have general tsao chicken using 14 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make General Tsao Chicken:
- Take 4 pounds boneless skinless chicken breast cut into 1 inch pieces
- Get 2 teaspoons salt
- Prepare 1 1/2 cups plus 4 tablespoons cornstarch divided
- Get 1 teaspoon pepper
- Prepare 4 tablespoons vegetable oil
- Make ready 1 cup brown sugar
- Get 1 cup soy sauce
- Make ready 1 cup pineapple juice
- Take 2/3 cups rice vinegar or white vinegar
- Get 8 cloves garlic minced
- Get 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon dried Ginger
- Take Green onions for garnish
- Take 1/2 cup cold water
Our recipe comes from many years in Chinese restaurant kitchens! The first is used to coat the chicken for frying, the second to coat the fried chicken. HTH I use a grater with small holes for the garlic or you can just zip all the sauce ingredients up in a blender or food. General Tso's chicken is a sweet, deep-fried chicken dish that is served in North American Chinese restaurants.
Steps to make General Tsao Chicken:
- Coat chicken pieces in remaining 1 1/2 cups corn starch. Pan fry in oil or deep fry for 2 -3 minutes per batch.
- In a saucepan add soy sauce, pineapple juice, vinegar, salt, pepper, oil, garlic, sugar, cayenne pepper, dried ginger. Bring to a slow boil. Dissolve 4 tablespoons cornstarch in cold water. Add cornstarch and water to saucepan. Stir till thickened.
- Pour sauce over chicken and toss.
- Keep warm in oven or slow cooker until ready to serve and garnish with green onion.
This healthier lightened up version is wok sautéed instead. While, General Tso's chicken and orange chicken are both delicious Chinese stir fries, they are very different dishes. They both have golden fried chicken pieces in a sweet sauce, but General Tso's. A favourite dish in Chinese restaurants, try making your own General Tso's chicken. It looks complicated but get all the components ready and it's quite easy.
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