Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, kung pao chicken. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Kung Pao Chicken is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Kung Pao Chicken is something that I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook kung pao chicken using 18 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Kung Pao Chicken:
- Prepare Rice
- Make ready Boneless chicken
- Take 1 egg white
- Get 1 tsp salt
- Take 1/2 tsp onion powder
- Get 2 tsp Chinese cooking wine
- Make ready 3 tbsp cornflour
- Take 1 tbsp Sichuan peppercorns
- Take Handful red chillies
- Get 4 spring onions
- Take 1 tbsp garlic
- Take 1 tsp ginger
- Take 1 tbsp dou ban jiang (broad bean paste in chili oil)
- Prepare 2 tbsp brown sugar
- Make ready 1 tbsp light soy sauce
- Get 2 tbsp Chinese black vinegar (or balsamic vinegar)
- Get 1 tsp dark soy sauce
- Make ready 1/3 cup toasted peanuts
Steps to make Kung Pao Chicken:
- Dice the chicken and place into a mixing bowl
- Add the salt, onion powder and Chinese cooking wine then mix. Add 1.5tbsp cornflour and 1 egg white then mix until a creamy, velvety texture is achieved. Set aside for 20mins
- Carefully chop Sichuan peppercorns into a dust where no whole peppercorns remain
- Roughly chop the red chillies
- Chop the spring onions, garlic and ginger
- Chop through the broadbean paste to release flavour
- Heat vegetable oil in wok. Add the chicken mixture and fry until cooked. Remove and set aside
- Heat a little more vegetable oil in the wok. Add the dou ban jiang paste and stir on low heat for 2mins. Once the oil has turned orange, add the garlic, ginger, Sichuan peppercorns, red chillies and brown sugar then stir until the sugar has melted
- Return the chicken to the wok and continue to mix until all chicken is coated
- Cook rice in salted water in a separate pot
- To the wok, add: light soy sauce, Chinese black vinegar and dark soy sauce then mix well
- Mix 2tsp cornflour with 1/2cup water. Add to the wok and stir immediately. Once the sauce thickens, add the toasted peanuts and spring onion whites. Mix well and season to taste
- Serve alongside rice and top with spring onion greens
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