Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, general tso chicken. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look 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 popular of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. General Tso Chicken is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have general tso chicken using 28 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make General Tso Chicken:
- Take Marinade
- Get 1 Egg White
- Take 2 Tbs Soy Sauce
- Take 2 Tbs Dry Sherry
- Make ready 2 Tbs Chinese Cooking Wine
- Prepare 1/4 tsp Baking Soda
- Get 3 Tbs Corn Starch
- Get 1 tsp Course ground black pepper
- Prepare 8-10 Boneless skinless chicken thighs
- Prepare Coating
- Make ready 1/2 C Flour
- Get 1/2 C Corn Starch
- Get 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
- Get 1/2 tsp Salt
- Take Sauce
- Take 3 Tbs Soy Sauce
- Make ready 2 Tbs Chinese Cooking Wine
- Prepare 2 Tbs Rice Vinegar
- Prepare 3 Tbs Chicken Stock
- Take 4 Tbs White Sugar
- Get 5 tsp Sesame Oil
- Take 1 Tbs Corn Starch
- Make ready 2 tsp Peanut Oil
- Get 2 tsp Minced Garlic
- Take 2 tsp Minced Ginger
- Take 1 Minced green onion
- Make ready 1 tsp Red pepper flakes
- Prepare 6 Green Onions cut in 1/2 - 1 inch lengths
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Steps 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. General tso's chicken should be a simple process to make, if take-out places make tons of orders! This chicken got to a wedding menu and a lady from my church gave me the recipe!
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