Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, kung pao chicken 😙😄. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Kung Pao Chicken 😙😄 is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Kung Pao Chicken 😙😄 is something that I have loved my entire life.
Chop the chicken into bite-sized chunks, then toss in the cornflour mixture to coat. Felicity's hybrid is the perfect kung pao chicken. 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.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook kung pao chicken 😙😄 using 31 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Kung Pao Chicken 😙😄:
- Prepare 2 Chicken breasts, cut into 2cm cubes
- Get 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
- Make ready 1 tbs Thai Sweet Chilie Sauce (very mild hot),
- Prepare or substitute w dried red chilies,
- Make ready that gives flavour to the sauce
- Prepare 1 tsp Salt as needed
- Take 1 tsp whole Sichuan pepper,then u ground it at home with a better
- Get (has a bit lemony with a numbing spiciness),
- Take to substitue with 1/2 tsp white pepper
- Make ready 1 beaten egg: separate the egg white
- Get 1 tsb Dark ABC Sweet Soy sauce
- Get 1 tbs Sesame oil
- Get Sauce:
- Make ready 2 Tbs light Soy sauce
- Prepare 1/2 tbs Chinese Black Vinegar (taste like balsamic vinegar)
- Get 1 tbs Sugar
- Take 1/2 tbs chinese Shaoxing Wine (just a touch)
- Prepare 1/4 tsp ground White Pepper
- Get 2 tsp cornstarch mix with 2 tbs cold water to
- Make ready thicken the sauce
- Take Other ingredients:
- Make ready 2 cloves Garlic, smashed
- Get 20 g Ginger, chopped finely
- Prepare 1 tbs Sichuan Peppercorn
- Make ready 80 g Cashew nuts:fry in teflon pan with no oil for 4' and keep
- Make ready stirring, watch out that the cashew nuts don't burnt
- Take Rice Bran Oil (brand Alfa one) for stir-fry and for deep-fry
- Prepare Jasmine rice, long grain rice, to cook in Rice Cooker,
- Make ready Garnish: 1 stalk Green onion, dice 5 mm
In a glass dish or bowl, combine half of the sake mixture with the chicken pieces 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 😙😄:
- 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 😍
Authentic Kung Pao chicken also calls for peanuts (toasted or deep-fried) which adds another layer of flavour. You may replace them with cashew nuts. It's important that you add the nuts at the very end of the stir-frying process. Otherwise, they would lose their crunchiness. How to Choose Dried Chilli & Sichuan Pepper.
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