Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, general tso’s chicken. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
General Tso’s Chicken is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. General Tso’s Chicken is something that I have 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 was one of my favorite college days late night Chinese food delivery orders.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook general tso’s chicken using 17 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make General Tso’s Chicken:
- Make ready 300 gr boneless chicken meat, cut into bite sizes
- Take 1/2 tsp salt
- Make ready 60 gr cornstarch
- Make ready 500 ml oil for deep frying the chicken
- Get 1 Tbsp vegetable oil
- Get 2 cloves garlic, minced
- Prepare 1/2 inch ginger, finely minced
- Make ready 10 dried chilies, soak in lukewarm water for 30 minutes to 1 hour (the amount of dried chilies can be reduced or added to taste)
- Take 2 green onions, julienned
- Make ready For the sauce:
- Get 3 Tbsp soy sauce
- Get 1 Tbsp dark soy sauce
- Take 2 Tbsp rice vinegar
- Get 1 tsp Hoisin sauce
- Make ready 1/2 Tbsp Chinese cooking wine
- Make ready 2 Tbsp water
- Prepare 1 Tbsp cornstarch
This dish is very similar in style to sesame or orange chicken. 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. This is General Tso's Chicken done right.
Instructions to make General Tso’s Chicken:
- Mix chicken with salt. Set aside for 15 minutes.
- In a small bowl, mix together the sauce ingredients. Set aside.
- Coat chicken with the cornstarch. Shake the excess flour off.
- Deep fry the chicken until golden brown. Remove from the heat. Drain the excess oil by laying the chicken on a dish lined with paper towels.
- Heat vegetable oil over medium-high heat. Sauté garlic, ginger, and dry chilies until fragrant.
- Add the sauce mixture. Keep stirring until the sauce thickens.
- Add the chicken. Stir until the chicken coated evenly with the sauce.
- Add green onions. Mix well.
- Serve with warm rice! 😋
Yesterday I mentioned that I had a cashew chicken recipe fail that I ended up tossing down the drain. Remove chicken from wine/soy marinade and place in flour mixture. Mix thoroughly, until all the chicken pieces are coated. General tso's chicken could be a tasty Chinese menu pick but there are other variations like Sesame chicken and orange chicken among the sweet family. The process of making general tso's chicken.
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