General Tso's Chicken

Steven Effendi
Steven Effendi @cook_13381087
Sydney

A dish that was created by a Chinese guy for American people. So does it become a Chinese food or American food?

General Tso's Chicken

A dish that was created by a Chinese guy for American people. So does it become a Chinese food or American food?

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Ingredients

60 minutes
2 servings
  1. 200 gboneless skinless chicken thighs cut into bite size
  2. 1egg white
  3. 1 tbspdark soy sauce
  4. 1 tbspShaoxing wine
  5. 1/4 cupcornstarch
  6. 1/4 cupall purpose flour
  7. pinchsalt
  8. 3 tbspdark soy sauce
  9. 2 tbspShaoxing wine
  10. 2 tbsprice vinegar
  11. 3 tbspchicken stock
  12. 4 tbspsugar
  13. 1 tspsesame oil
  14. 1 tbspcornstarch
  15. 2 clovesgarlic minced
  16. 1 inchginger minced
  17. 1 stalkspring onion chopped
  18. 4red chilies sliced

Cooking Instructions

60 minutes
  1. 1

    Put the chicken into a mixing bowl, add the egg white, dark soy sauce, Shaoxing wine and mix it. Cover with plastic wrap and marinade it for at least 30 minutes.

  2. 2

    Now to make the batter, put the flour, cornstarch and salt into another plate and start coating the marinated chicken one by one into the flour.

  3. 3

    Deep-fried the chicken until they are brown on the outside. Once the chicken is fully cooked, drain it with paper towel and set it aside.

  4. 4

    For the sauce, combine the dark soy sauce, Shaoxing wine, rice vinegar, chicken stock, sugar, sesame oil, and cornstarch into a bowl. Stir it with a fork until the cornstarch dissolve. Set it aside.

  5. 5

    In a skillet, add 1 tbsp of oil and start cooking the garlic, ginger, spring onion and chilies in a medium high heat until they are aromatic and soft, about 3 minutes.

  6. 6

    Pour the sauce into the skillet and cook it, stir it until the sauce boils and thicken.

  7. 7

    Reduce the heat to low and add the chicken back to the skillet. Coat the chicken with the sauce until all pieces are thoroughly coated.

  8. 8

    Garnish it with some spring onion and serve with white rice.

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