Kung Pao Chicken

jenscookingdiary
jenscookingdiary @jenscookingdiary
Pasadena, California

The classic style of this spicy stir fry Chinese Sichuan dish is made of chicken, peanuts, green onions, dried chili peppers, and Sichuan peppercorns for the numbing flavor. I made the American Chinese takeouts version which includes some vegetables, such as bell peppers, carrots, zucchini, water chestnuts, or even broccoli as part of the dish. If you like my recipes, please follow my Instagram @jenscookingdiary for the Indonesian recipes or @jenscookdineandtravel for the English recipes 🙏🏻😊😘

Kung Pao Chicken

The classic style of this spicy stir fry Chinese Sichuan dish is made of chicken, peanuts, green onions, dried chili peppers, and Sichuan peppercorns for the numbing flavor. I made the American Chinese takeouts version which includes some vegetables, such as bell peppers, carrots, zucchini, water chestnuts, or even broccoli as part of the dish. If you like my recipes, please follow my Instagram @jenscookingdiary for the Indonesian recipes or @jenscookdineandtravel for the English recipes 🙏🏻😊😘

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Ingredients

  1. 2 Tbspvegetable oil
  2. 3 clovesgarlic, minced
  3. 2 cmginger, thinly sliced
  4. 1/2red bell pepper, diced
  5. 12dried red chilies, soaked in hot water for 30 minutes- 1 hour, seeded and cut into halves
  6. 50 grroasted peanuts 🥜
  7. 2green onions, cut 1/2 cm
  8. 500 grboneless chicken thighs/breast, diced, pat dry with paper towels
  9. For the chicken marinade:
  10. 1 tspsesame oil
  11. 1 Tbspcornstarch
  12. 2 tspsoy sauce
  13. For the Kung Pao sauce:
  14. 1/2 tspChinese Shaoxing rice wine (optional)
  15. 1 Tbspsoy sauce
  16. 1 Tbspdark soy sauce
  17. 1/2 tspChinese black vinegar
  18. 1 tspsugar
  19. 2 Tbspwater

Cooking Instructions

  1. 1

    In a medium bowl, add chicken and marinade sauce. Mix well. Set aside for at least 30 minutes.

  2. 2

    In a small bowl, mix well the ingredients for the sauce. Set aside.

  3. 3

    Heat the vegetable oil in a pan over medium high heat. Sauté garlic, ginger, and dried red chilies until fragrant and smell spicy.

  4. 4

    Add chicken. Keep stirring until the chicken change color.

  5. 5

    Add roasted peanuts and red bell peppers. Mix well.

  6. 6

    Add the sauce mixture. Cook until the chicken is evenly coated with the sauce.
    Add green onions. Stir again for a while. Remove from the heat.

  7. 7

    Serve hot over steam white rice.
    Yum! 😋

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