Kung Pao Chicken
Kung Pao Chicken

Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, kung pao chicken. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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. Kung Pao Chicken is from the Sichuan province in China. 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.

Kung Pao Chicken is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Kung Pao Chicken is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have kung pao chicken using 26 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Kung Pao Chicken:
  1. Get 400 g Chicken Thighs
  2. Get 4-5 Cloves Garlic
  3. Take 4 tsp Sichuan Peppercorns
  4. Get 4 Birdseye Chilli
  5. Prepare 4 dried large red chillies
  6. Prepare 200 g Onion
  7. Get 200 g mixed Bell peppers
  8. Prepare 200 g Red Pepper
  9. Make ready Handful cashew nuts
  10. Make ready Handful ground nuts
  11. Get 1 stalk scallion, cut into rings
  12. Get The Marinade
  13. Prepare 1 tsp sesame oil
  14. Make ready 2 tsp sugar
  15. Get 1 pinch Chinese 5 spice
  16. Make ready 1 tsp ginger-garlic paste
  17. Make ready 1 tbsp light soy sauce
  18. Get Dash dark soy sauce
  19. Make ready 1/2 tablespoon cornflour
  20. Make ready Sauce
  21. Make ready 1 tbsp light soy
  22. Get 1 tbsp Sriracha sauce
  23. Take 1 tbsp rice vinegar
  24. Prepare 2 tsp sugar
  25. Prepare 50 ml chicken stock
  26. Prepare 1 tsp tomato paste

Make Kung Pao Chicken better than Chinese take out right at home! With crisp-tender, mouthwatering chicken pieces swimming in the most delicious silky Chinese sauce exploding with flavour, this is one Kung Pao chicken recipe hard to pass up! Combine chicken and cornstarch in small bowl. Heat oil in large non-stick skillet or wok on medium heat.

Steps to make Kung Pao Chicken:
  1. Immediately, soak large red chilies, whole, in hot water for 10-15 minutes
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. In a separate bowl, mix all of the sauce ingredients together.
  5. 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’.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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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Add onions, garlic, red pepper and ginger to skillet. Combine vinegar, soy sauce and sugar in small bowl. Traditional Kung Pao Chicken contains chicken, peanuts, and green onions. I added a bell pepper to this recipe, and you could add any other vegetables you'd like. The sauce and marinade contain soy sauce, chicken broth, vinegar, cornstarch and chili paste.

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