Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, kung pao chicken. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Spicy chicken with peanuts, similar to what is served in Chinese restaurants. It is easy to make, and you can be as sloppy with the measurements as you want. They reduce to a nice, thick sauce.
Kung Pao Chicken is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Kung Pao Chicken is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook kung pao chicken using 26 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Kung Pao Chicken:
- Take 400 g Chicken Thighs
- Prepare 4-5 Cloves Garlic
- Make ready 4 tsp Sichuan Peppercorns
- Get 4 Birdseye Chilli
- Get 4 dried large red chillies
- Make ready 200 g Onion
- Take 200 g mixed Bell peppers
- Make ready 200 g Red Pepper
- Get Handful cashew nuts
- Take Handful ground nuts
- Get 1 stalk scallion, cut into rings
- Take The Marinade
- Get 1 tsp sesame oil
- Get 2 tsp sugar
- Make ready 1 pinch Chinese 5 spice
- Prepare 1 tsp ginger-garlic paste
- Make ready 1 tbsp light soy sauce
- Prepare Dash dark soy sauce
- Make ready 1/2 tablespoon cornflour
- Get Sauce
- Make ready 1 tbsp light soy
- Make ready 1 tbsp Sriracha sauce
- Make ready 1 tbsp rice vinegar
- Get 2 tsp sugar
- Get 50 ml chicken stock
- Take 1 tsp tomato paste
Kung Pao Chicken is a dish featuring small pieces of diced chicken, peanuts, and chilies. While the dish originated in Sichuan province, its fame brought it to other provinces as well, each with their own regional variation. Kung Pao Chicken is from the Sichuan province in China. The Chinese name is 宫保鸡丁 (gong bao ji ding) but some restaurants spell it as Gong Bao Chicken or Kung Po Chicken.
Instructions to make Kung Pao Chicken:
- Immediately, soak large red chilies, whole, in hot water for 10-15 minutes
- While the chillies are soaking, finely slice the onion, bell peppers and red pepper, before then cutting your chicken thighs into cubes. Set the cubed chicken into a separate bowl, then finely dice the garlic and birdseye chillies and finally crush the Sichuanese peppercorns with either a pestle and mortar or rolling pin.
- Next, marinate your chicken. Ensuring that the cornflour is introduced last, add all of the marinade ingredients to the cubed chicken and then massage well.
- In a separate bowl, mix all of the sauce ingredients together.
- At this point, your large red chilies should be soaked. Remove them from the hot water and place in a bowl with the chopped garlic, Birdseye chilies and Sichuan peppercorns to form your ‘Spice Mix’.
- Heat 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil in a wok to high heat. Once smoking hot, add the onions and peppers and stir-fry for 2 minutes. Push the onions and peppers to one side of the wok and add an extra 1/2 a teaspoon of oil to center of wok.
- Bring the oil to a high heat and add the chicken. Allow the chicken to sit and sear on one side, before then folding it through with the peppers and onions and stir-frying until the chicken is golden brown.
- Now, add the spice mix, immediately followed by the sauce, and continue to cook for 2 minutes. Finally, add cashew nuts, scallions and serve - preferably with some steamed rice!
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This is a spicy chicken dish with a mouthwatering Kung Pao Sauce. It is popular at Chinese takeouts or restaurants here in the United States. Kung Pao Chicken Recipe So, what exactly is Kung Pao Chicken? Traditionally, it's a stir-fried, chicken dish that is tossed with peanuts, green onions, Sichuan peppercorns (Szechuan peppers), and dried chiles. The end result is a dish that is a bit sweet and a bit sour, with a nice punch of heat.
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