Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, kung pao chicken. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Kung Pao Chicken is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Kung Pao Chicken is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
Kung Pao Chicken (宫保鸡丁) in Chinese is a stir-fried dish with chicken cubes, dried chili pepper and deep-fried peanuts. The tender taste of the chicken matches great with the crispy peanuts with a. Kung Pao Chicken is a Chinese takeout favourite that is mouthwateringly good and highly addictive - so it's a good thing it's easy to make at home so we don't need to order takeout every time we crave it!!
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have kung pao chicken using 26 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Kung Pao Chicken:
- Get 400 g Chicken Thighs
- Get 4-5 Cloves Garlic
- Make ready 4 tsp Sichuan Peppercorns
- Make ready 4 Birdseye Chilli
- Prepare 4 dried large red chillies
- Prepare 200 g Onion
- Get 200 g mixed Bell peppers
- Make ready 200 g Red Pepper
- Take Handful cashew nuts
- Prepare Handful ground nuts
- Take 1 stalk scallion, cut into rings
- Make ready The Marinade
- Take 1 tsp sesame oil
- Make ready 2 tsp sugar
- Take 1 pinch Chinese 5 spice
- Get 1 tsp ginger-garlic paste
- Take 1 tbsp light soy sauce
- Get Dash dark soy sauce
- Take 1/2 tablespoon cornflour
- Prepare Sauce
- Prepare 1 tbsp light soy
- Get 1 tbsp Sriracha sauce
- Take 1 tbsp rice vinegar
- Take 2 tsp sugar
- Get 50 ml chicken stock
- Prepare 1 tsp tomato paste
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. Homemade Chinese chicken in a savory and spicy sauce. Kung pao chicken with bell peppers, onions, lean white meat, and a spicy sauce that rivals authentic Chinese takeout! Kung pao chicken has a lot going for it.
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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The Chinese takeout favorite boasts tender chicken, crisp veggies, crunchy roasted peanuts, and a spicy, savory sauce coating each and every bite. Now that my son has discovered the big, bright, beautiful world of Chinese-American take-out, it's all he wants to eat these days. I mean, who can blame the kid? This Kung Pao Chicken is a delicious stir-fry loaded with chunky veggies and chicken and coated in a homemade tasty sauce. Kung Pao Chicken (also known as Gong Bao or Kung Pow) is probably the dish most associated with Chinese food in America.
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