Recipe of Any-night-of-the-week General Tso Chicken

General Tso Chicken. Mix in the chicken until all the pieces are coated with batter. Toss fried chicken in sauce, then serve. Drain and set aside until ready to use.

General Tso Chicken is a fantastic option when you're looking to change up your Chinese food routine. The Hunanese have a strong military tradition, and Tso is one of their best-known. A genuinely mouthwatering dish with an Asian kick that will knock your chopsticks off!

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Mix in the chicken until all the pieces are coated with batter. Toss fried chicken in sauce, then serve. Drain and set aside until ready to use.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have general tso chicken using 28 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make General Tso Chicken:

1. {Prepare of Marinade.
2. {Make ready 1 of Egg White.
3. {Prepare 2 Tbs of Soy Sauce.
4. {Make ready 2 Tbs of Dry Sherry.
5. {Get 2 Tbs of Chinese Cooking Wine.
6. {Prepare 1/4 tsp of Baking Soda.
7. {Prepare 3 Tbs of Corn Starch.
8. {Make ready 1 tsp of Course ground black pepper.
9. {Prepare 8-10 of Boneless skinless chicken thighs.
10. {Get of Coating.
11. {Take 1/2 C of Flour.
12. {Make ready 1/2 C of Corn Starch.
13. {Get 1/2 tsp of Baking Powder.
14. {Get 1/2 tsp of Salt.
15. {Take of Sauce.
16. {Take 3 Tbs of Soy Sauce.
17. {Get 2 Tbs of Chinese Cooking Wine.
18. {Take 2 Tbs of Rice Vinegar.
19. {Take 3 Tbs of Chicken Stock.
20. {Make ready 4 Tbs of White Sugar.
21. {Prepare 5 tsp of Sesame Oil.
22. {Take 1 Tbs of Corn Starch.
23. {Take 2 tsp of Peanut Oil.
24. {Make ready 2 tsp of Minced Garlic.
25. {Take 2 tsp of Minced Ginger.
26. {Take 1 of Minced green onion.
27. {Prepare 1 tsp of Red pepper flakes.
28. {Get 6 of Green Onions cut in 1/2 - 1 inch lengths.

Don't be fooled by other General Tsao impostors: this is simply the best Chinese chicken you will ever have. With a flair of peanut oil, a streak of sesame, a dash of orange, and a sweet spot for hot, this is sure to be a favorite. General Tso's Chicken is a Chinese-American dish of fried chicken pieces that are breaded and tossed in a tangy sauce. This dish is very similar in style to sesame or orange chicken.

Instructions to make General Tso Chicken:

1. Cut chicken thighs in to 1 - 1 1/2 inch pieces.
2. Mix marinade ingredients in to a bowl. Ensure no lumps, then add the chicken pieces. Coat chicken well then set aside..
3. Mix dry coating ingredients. Make sure it is well mixed. Set aside..
4. Add about 1 inch of peanut oil to pot or stove top crock pot and begin heating oil to approx 350 degrees..
5. While oil is heating, add the chicken from the marinade to the dry mix and coat each piece thoroughly..
6. 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..
7. Sauce - Mix sauce ingredients in a bowl except for garlic, ginger, and minced green onion and 1/2 sliced green onion..
8. Gently fry garlic, ginger, and minced green onion in fry pan with a little bit of peanut oil 2-3 minutes..
9. 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..
10. 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..
11. Serve over rice..

But, like in much of Chinese food, it's the sauce that makes each dish unique. General Tso's chicken (pronounced [tswò]) is a sweet deep-fried chicken dish that is served in North American Chinese restaurants. Using a fork remove ONE chicken piece at a time and let the excess mixture drip off. YES even though the mixture has a weird consistency it will not stick like paste and the excess will drip off. General Tso's Chicken is a favorite Chinese food takeout choice that is sweet and slightly spicy with a kick from garlic and ginger.

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