Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, kung pao chicken ๐๐. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Kung Pao chicken (Chinese: ๅฎซไฟ้ธกไธ; pinyin: Gลngbวo jฤซdฤซng), also transcribed Gong Bao or Kung Po, is a spicy, stir-fried Chinese dish made with cubes of chicken, peanuts, vegetables. Kung Pao Chicken (ๅฎซไฟ้ธกไธ) in Chinese is a stir-fried dish with chicken cubes, dried chili pepper and deep-fried peanuts. Kung Pao Chicken is a dish featuring small pieces of diced chicken, peanuts, and chilies.
Kung Pao Chicken ๐๐ is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Kung Pao Chicken ๐๐ is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook kung pao chicken ๐๐ using 31 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Kung Pao Chicken ๐๐:
- Take 2 Chicken breasts, cut into 2cm cubes
- Take 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
- Get 1 can Baby Sweetcorn, drain & discard
- Prepare 1 tbs Thai Sweet Chilie Sauce (very mild hot),
- Take or substitute w dried red chilies,
- Take that gives flavour to the sauce
- Prepare 1 tsp Salt as needed
- Get 1 tsp whole Sichuan pepper,then u ground it at home with a better
- Take (has a bit lemony with a numbing spiciness),
- Prepare to substitue with 1/2 tsp white pepper
- Get 1 beaten egg: separate the egg white
- Get 1 tsb Dark ABC Sweet Soy sauce
- Prepare 1 tbs Sesame oil
- Prepare Sauce:
- Prepare 2 Tbs light Soy sauce
- Take 1/2 tbs Chinese Black Vinegar (taste like balsamic vinegar)
- Make ready 1 tbs Sugar
- Take 1/2 tbs chinese Shaoxing Wine (just a touch)
- Get 1/4 tsp ground White Pepper
- Make ready 2 tsp cornstarch mix with 2 tbs cold water to
- Get thicken the sauce
- Prepare Other ingredients:
- Get 2 cloves Garlic, smashed
- Take 20 g Ginger, chopped finely
- Make ready 1 tbs Sichuan Peppercorn
- Prepare 80 g Cashew nuts:fry in teflon pan with no oil for 4' and keep
- Take stirring, watch out that the cashew nuts don't burnt
- Take Rice Bran Oil (brand Alfa one) for stir-fry and for deep-fry
- Make ready Jasmine rice, long grain rice, to cook in Rice Cooker,
- Get Garnish: 1 stalk Green onion, dice 5 mm
Stir-fried chicken, peanuts, and green onion in a delicious salty, sweet, and spicy kung pao sauce, served over hot cooked rice. Kung pao chicken with bell peppers, onions, lean white meat, and a spicy sauce that rivals authentic Chinese takeout! This homemade version of kung pao chicken will have you ditching the takeout menu for good. Making Chinese dishes with restaurant quality taste is not as hard as it may seem.
Steps 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 is from the Sichuan province in China. The Chinese name is ๅฎซไฟ้ธกไธ (gong bao ji ding) but some restaurants spell it as Gong Bao Kung Pao Sauce is the soul of Kung Pao Chicken. The sauce is brown in color, mildly spicy and dangerously addictive. It tastes salty, sweet and vinegary. Chicken is the main ingredient in Kung Pao Chicken but you can't ignore the delicious sauce and nuts!
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