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General Tso’s Chicken Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
Sauce:
1/3 cup corn Starch
1/4 cup water
1+1/2 tsp minced garlic
1+1/2 tsp minced ginger root
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup white vinegar
1/4 cup cooking wine or sherry
1+1/2 cup hot chicken broth
1 tsp monosodium glutamate (optional)
1 tsp Chinese Five Spice (optional)
Chicken:
3 lbs de-boned dark chicken meat, cut into large chunks
1/4 cup soy sauce
1 tsp white pepper
1 egg
1 cup cornstarch (corn flour)
Vegetable oil for deep-frying
2 cups sliced green onions
16 small dried Szechuan Peppers
Directions:
Directions:
In a bowl, mix water and cornstarch from sauce ingredients. Mix in the rest of the sauce ingredients and stir until sugar dissolves. In a separate bowl, mix the soy-sauce, white pepper, and egg from the chicken ingredients. Add in the chicken, and sprinkle in corn starch until each chunk of chicken is thoroughly coated. . In small groups, deep-fry the chicken pieces thoroughly at around 350-400 degrees and until crispy. Dry chicken on a bed of paper towels. In a wok, add a small amount of oil (about a tbsp) and stir-fry the onions and Szechuan peppers. Stir in the sauce to the onions and peppers in the wok, and simmer until sauce thickens.
Add chicken, and make sure the sauce coats the chicken thoroughly. Serves 4.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
Stop & Shop used to have a luncheon buffet, and this dish was offered as part of the buffet. Occasionally, I would treat myself to lunch whenever I was out and about. This was always my go to choice, and it never disappointed! Whenever I made this recipe, instead of the pepper corns, I would sprinkle in a bit of hot pepper flakes and sometimes stir-fried broccoli.

 

 

 

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