Steps to Make Ultimate General Tso Chicken

General Tso Chicken
General Tso Chicken

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Mix in the chicken until all the pieces are coated with batter. Drain and set aside until ready to use. Toss fried chicken in sauce, then serve. The Hunanese have a strong military tradition, and Tso is one of their best-known.

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

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

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Steps 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.

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