Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare 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.
Kung Pao Chicken 😙😄 is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Kung Pao Chicken 😙😄 is something which I have loved my entire life.
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. Combine the rice wine, peanut oil, soy sauce, salt and cornstarch.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have kung pao chicken 😙😄 using 31 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Kung Pao Chicken 😙😄:
- Get 2 Chicken breasts, cut into 2cm cubes
- Prepare 1 big white onion, cut 1 inch, then in rectangular equal size
- Make ready 2 carrots, cut 1 inch,slice thinly then in rectangular in equal
- Prepare 1 can Baby Sweetcorn, drain & discard
- Take 1 tbs Thai Sweet Chilie Sauce (very mild hot),
- Prepare or substitute w dried red chilies,
- Get that gives flavour to the sauce
- Prepare 1 tsp Salt as needed
- Make ready 1 tsp whole Sichuan pepper,then u ground it at home with a better
- Prepare (has a bit lemony with a numbing spiciness),
- Make ready 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
- Get Sauce:
- Get 2 Tbs light Soy sauce
- Prepare 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
- Take 2 tsp cornstarch mix with 2 tbs cold water to
- Prepare thicken the sauce
- Take Other ingredients:
- Make ready 2 cloves Garlic, smashed
- Make ready 20 g Ginger, chopped finely
- Prepare 1 tbs Sichuan Peppercorn
- Take 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
- Make ready Rice Bran Oil (brand Alfa one) for stir-fry and for deep-fry
- Get 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.
Steps to make Kung Pao Chicken 😙😄:
- 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 😍
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. 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.
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