Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, kung pao chicken. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Kung Pao Chicken (宫保鸡丁) in Chinese is a stir-fried dish with chicken cubes, dried chili pepper and deep-fried peanuts. 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!! Kung pao chicken exists both in the traditional Chinese repertoire and Americanized takeout menus alike.
Kung Pao Chicken is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Kung Pao Chicken is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook kung pao chicken using 26 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Kung Pao Chicken:
- Prepare 400 g Chicken Thighs
- Get 4-5 Cloves Garlic
- Prepare 4 tsp Sichuan Peppercorns
- Make ready 4 Birdseye Chilli
- Get 4 dried large red chillies
- Take 200 g Onion
- Get 200 g mixed Bell peppers
- Get 200 g Red Pepper
- Make ready Handful cashew nuts
- Take Handful ground nuts
- Take 1 stalk scallion, cut into rings
- Get The Marinade
- Get 1 tsp sesame oil
- Get 2 tsp sugar
- Prepare 1 pinch Chinese 5 spice
- Get 1 tsp ginger-garlic paste
- Prepare 1 tbsp light soy sauce
- Prepare Dash dark soy sauce
- Prepare 1/2 tablespoon cornflour
- Take Sauce
- Get 1 tbsp light soy
- Make ready 1 tbsp Sriracha sauce
- Make ready 1 tbsp rice vinegar
- Take 2 tsp sugar
- Get 50 ml chicken stock
- Make ready 1 tsp tomato paste
Kung Pao Chicken is from the Sichuan province in China. Kung pao chicken has a lot going for it. 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.
Steps 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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I mean, who can blame the kid? Kung Pao Chicken (also known as Gong Bao or Kung Pow) is probably the dish most associated with Chinese food in America. This dish is also one of the most authentic dishes on the menus of Chinese. 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. This kung pao chicken is a blend of seared chicken breasts, bell peppers, onions and peanuts, all in a savory and spicy sauce.
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