Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, kung pao chicken. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Kung Pao Chicken is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Kung Pao Chicken is something that I’ve loved my whole 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.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have kung pao chicken using 26 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Kung Pao Chicken:
- Make ready Prep time 20 mints
- Prepare Cooking time 10 mints
- Prepare Total time 30 mints
- Get Chicken Marinade:
- Make ready boneless chicken cut into cubes
- Prepare soy sauce
- Get sesame oil
- Make ready corn flour
- Take black pepper
- Get Gravy:
- Prepare cornflour
- Prepare light soy sauce
- Make ready dark soy sauce
- Get sesame oil
- Get black pepper
- Get sriracha sauce
- Get water
- Take honey
- Get medium onion finely chopped
- Take minced garlic
- Take minced ginger
- Take dried red chilies cut into halves and seeds removed
- Make ready red capsicum cut into 1" cubes
- Make ready green capsicum cut into 1" cubes
- Prepare fried peanuts for garnish
- Make ready finely chopped green onions for garnish
Whisk until smooth then add the chicken and toss to coat. 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.
Steps to make Kung Pao Chicken:
- Measure and prepare all ingredients. Marinate the chicken and keep aside or refrigerate until further use.
- Make cornflour slurry and keep aside too. - - Fry peanuts in oil on a low flame till golden.
- In a separate bowl mix together water, light soy sauce, vinegar, honey, sesame oil, sriracha, dark soy sauce and leave aside.
- Using the same oil in which peanuts were fried, heat in a pan over medium flame, cook the marinated chicken in a single layer, as soon as it changes colour, dish out and keep aside.
- Again, in the same oil saute onions till translucent, add ginger garlic and saute till fragrant. Now add the red chilies, chicken, red and green capsicums and the sauce mix and stir well.
- Lastly add the cornflour slurry, mix well and turn off the flame. You do not want the veggies to discolour or soften. Dish out and garnish with fried peanuts and spring onions. - - Serve with rice of your choice. Enjoy!
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. Kung pao chicken, the popular Chinese takeout dish of stir-fried chicken, peanuts and vegetables, is traditionally made with lots of specialty ingredients, like Sichuan peppercorns, Chinese black vinegar, Chinese rice wine, and whole dried red chilies. Traditional Kung Pao Chicken contains chicken, peanuts, and green onions.
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