Szechuan Kung Pao Chicken
Szechuan Kung Pao Chicken

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Kung Pao Chicken (宫保鸡丁) in Chinese is a stir-fried dish with chicken cubes, dried chili pepper and deep-fried peanuts. The tender taste of the chicken matches great with the crispy peanuts with a combined sweet, sour and spicy taste. I forgot that Szechuan Chicken usually doesn't come with sauce.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have szechuan kung pao chicken using 26 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Szechuan Kung Pao Chicken:
  1. Make ready 350 g Chicken Meat (thighs preferably, skinless, boneless)
  2. Prepare Marinade;
  3. Prepare 1 Tbsp Light Soy Sauce
  4. Prepare 1 Tbsp Rice Vinegar
  5. Make ready 2 tsp Corn Flour
  6. Take 1 Tbsp Cooking Oil
  7. Prepare Pre-Sauce Mix (mix well in a bowl);
  8. Get 1 Tbsp Light Soy Sauce
  9. Make ready 1 Tbsp Rice Vinegar
  10. Get 1 Tbsp Sugar
  11. Take 1 tsp Chilli Powder (optional)
  12. Get 2 Tbsp Water
  13. Prepare Stir Frying;
  14. Get 1 Tbsp Szechuan Peppercorn
  15. Take 12 pc Dried Chillies (halved, deseed)
  16. Take 20 g Ginger (minced)
  17. Make ready 20 g Garlic (minced)
  18. Prepare 20 g Spring Onions (white part, finely chopped)
  19. Make ready as needed Cooking Oil
  20. Take Thickener (mix well in a small bowl);
  21. Get 1 tsp Corn Flour
  22. Prepare 1 Tbsp Water
  23. Get Other Ingredients;
  24. Get 70 g Toasted Peanuts (1/2 cup)
  25. Make ready as needed Spring Onion (green part finely chopped, garnish)
  26. Make ready 1-2 Tbsp Black Vinegar (Chin Kiang Vinegar)

Recreate an Asian takeout favorite - Kung Pao Chicken - at home! Szechuan Pepper Salt & Spice adds a mouth-tingling kick to the signature sweet and spicy Kung Pao sauce. Serve with a simple bowl of steamed rice. Kung pao which is a sichuan/szechuan province of szechuan which is the spicest of all three uses peppercorns to basically numb your palates (mala) Hunan is spicy and use chili paste or dried chile peppers and mongolian chicken does not originate from Mongolia but actually came from Taiwan.

Instructions to make Szechuan Kung Pao Chicken:
  1. MARINADE; marinate the chicken with the Light Soy Sauce, Rice Vinegar, Corn Flour and Cooking Oil for 30 minutes
  2. CHICKEN; heat a wok until hot and add 2 Tbsp of Cooking Oil. Cook the Szechuan Peppercorn and Dried Chilli until fragrant (10 seconds). Then add the chicken and cook them until brown all over (2-3 minutes each side). Remove and set aside.
  3. SAUCE; if necessary, add 2 Tbsp of Cooking Oil and heat it until hot. Cook the Garlic, Ginger and Spring Onion (white part) until fragrant (10 seconds). Then add in the Pre-Sauce Mixture. Cook for 1 minute and then add the thickener.
  4. ASSEMBLY; once the sauce has thickened, add in the Chicken to the sauce and mix well. Then add the Toasted Peanuts and mix well. TURN OFF THE HEAT, and then add 1-2 Tbsp of Black Vinegar. Serve on a serving okate and garnish with Spring Onions.

Kung Pao chicken - done right! The flavour of this sauce is very similar to proper restaurant versions, with a great balance of savoury-sweet and sour I recently bought szechuan peppercorn oil which I haven't tried yet. Would this be acceptable in this recipe? I have heard and read that you don't want to. Szechuan chicken comes from the region of Sichuan in China and is meant to be pretty spicy.

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