Kung Pao Chicken
Kung Pao Chicken

Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, kung pao chicken. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Kung Pao Chicken is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Kung Pao Chicken is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have kung pao chicken using 18 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Kung Pao Chicken:
  1. Get Rice
  2. Prepare Boneless chicken
  3. Take 1 egg white
  4. Make ready 1 tsp salt
  5. Get 1/2 tsp onion powder
  6. Make ready 2 tsp Chinese cooking wine
  7. Get 3 tbsp cornflour
  8. Prepare 1 tbsp Sichuan peppercorns
  9. Take Handful red chillies
  10. Get 4 spring onions
  11. Get 1 tbsp garlic
  12. Make ready 1 tsp ginger
  13. Take 1 tbsp dou ban jiang (broad bean paste in chili oil)
  14. Get 2 tbsp brown sugar
  15. Take 1 tbsp light soy sauce
  16. Make ready 2 tbsp Chinese black vinegar (or balsamic vinegar)
  17. Make ready 1 tsp dark soy sauce
  18. Get 1/3 cup toasted peanuts
Instructions to make Kung Pao Chicken:
  1. Dice the chicken and place into a mixing bowl
  2. 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
  3. Carefully chop Sichuan peppercorns into a dust where no whole peppercorns remain
  4. Roughly chop the red chillies
  5. Chop the spring onions, garlic and ginger
  6. Chop through the broadbean paste to release flavour
  7. Heat vegetable oil in wok. Add the chicken mixture and fry until cooked. Remove and set aside
  8. 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
  9. Return the chicken to the wok and continue to mix until all chicken is coated
  10. Cook rice in salted water in a separate pot
  11. To the wok, add: light soy sauce, Chinese black vinegar and dark soy sauce then mix well
  12. 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
  13. Serve alongside rice and top with spring onion greens

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