Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, kung pao chicken ๐๐. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
I lived in China for two years, and this recipe (with some important but minor changes) comes very close to the Kung Pao chicken that can be found in Beijing restaurants. Remove the chicken from the skillet. Marinade: In a non-reactive bowl, prepare the marinade.
Kung Pao Chicken ๐๐ is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Kung Pao Chicken ๐๐ is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have kung pao chicken ๐๐ using 31 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Kung Pao Chicken ๐๐:
- Make ready 2 Chicken breasts, cut into 2cm cubes
- Get 1 big white onion, cut 1 inch, then in rectangular equal size
- Get 2 carrots, cut 1 inch,slice thinly then in rectangular in equal
- Prepare 1 can Baby Sweetcorn, drain & discard
- Prepare 1 tbs Thai Sweet Chilie Sauce (very mild hot),
- Prepare or substitute w dried red chilies,
- Take that gives flavour to the sauce
- Get 1 tsp Salt as needed
- Take 1 tsp whole Sichuan pepper,then u ground it at home with a better
- Get (has a bit lemony with a numbing spiciness),
- Make ready to substitue with 1/2 tsp white pepper
- Prepare 1 beaten egg: separate the egg white
- Get 1 tsb Dark ABC Sweet Soy sauce
- Take 1 tbs Sesame oil
- Make ready Sauce:
- Take 2 Tbs light Soy sauce
- Take 1/2 tbs Chinese Black Vinegar (taste like balsamic vinegar)
- Make ready 1 tbs Sugar
- Make ready 1/2 tbs chinese Shaoxing Wine (just a touch)
- Get 1/4 tsp ground White Pepper
- Get 2 tsp cornstarch mix with 2 tbs cold water to
- Take thicken the sauce
- Make ready Other ingredients:
- Get 2 cloves Garlic, smashed
- Prepare 20 g Ginger, chopped finely
- Take 1 tbs Sichuan Peppercorn
- Make ready 80 g Cashew nuts:fry in teflon pan with no oil for 4' and keep
- Prepare stirring, watch out that the cashew nuts don't burnt
- Prepare Rice Bran Oil (brand Alfa one) for stir-fry and for deep-fry
- Take Jasmine rice, long grain rice, to cook in Rice Cooker,
- Take Garnish: 1 stalk Green onion, dice 5 mm
Whisk until smooth then add the chicken and toss to coat. 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.
Instructions to make Kung Pao Chicken ๐๐:
- Toast the Sichuan Peppercorns in a frying pan until golden. Transfer to blender, grind to a fine powder then sieve into a large bowl. Add 2 tbs of conflour and stir to combine.
- In a small bowl put the chicken, add Dark Soy Sauce, ground Sichuan Peppercorns mixture, 1 tbs Vege oil & egg whites. Marinade for 30 minutes.
- In a wok put Rice Bran oil about 1 inch oil, heat the oil then put the Chicken pieces and fry for about 2' until golden. Remove from the wok. Take off all the oil, just leaving about 2 tbs oil in the wok. Add the onions, garlic, ginger, carrots & baby sweetcorn and stir-fry over medium heat until aromatic.
- Prepare for the sauce: In a small bowl mix light Soya sauce,Rice vinegar,sugar,Shaoxing Wine,Thai Sweet Chili Sauce,white pepper & salt then pour this sauce mixture onto the wok that has the onions-garlic mixture. Mix all together; add a little bit of water if the liquid is too dry. Then add the cornstarch mixture to thicken the sauce.
- Then add the fried Chicken, mix & stirring, let the chicken coated evenly with the sauce.Taste the season.Then add Sesame oil and stir for another 1 minute. Finally add the toasted Cashew Nuts, mix well and cook for another 30 seconds.Turn off the flame. Remove, transfer the Kung Pao Chicken into a serving dish; sprinkle on top with diced Green Onions. To serve with steamed Jasmine rice ๐
Kung pao chicken exists both in the traditional Chinese repertoire and Americanized takeout menus alike. When we lived in Beijing, I was actually surprised to see how popular Kung Pao Chicken was among restaurant goers. At certain restaurants that featured family-style cooking, I'd often see kung pao chicken on one out of every three tables. Traditional Kung Pao Chicken contains chicken, peanuts, and green onions. Kung Pao Chicken (ๅฎซไฟ้ธกไธ) in Chinese is a stir-fried dish with chicken cubes, dried chili pepper and deep-fried peanuts.
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