General Tsos Chicken
A weekend Chinese dinner. Ready in about 29 minutes. Difficulty: more effort.
- 24 minPrep (about)
- 5 minCook (about)
- 29 minTotal time
- 4Servings
- More effortDifficulty
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Join the waitlist Not nowIngredients
Main ingredient
- 9 marinating chicken
Fresh & other
- 8 ½ cups water
- ¾ cup + 2 ½ tsp corn
- 9 egg whites
- ½ cup + 1 ½ tsp cornstarch
- 4 cloves garlic
- 1 ½ tbsp ginger
- broccoli
- sugar
- wine
Sauces & oils
- ½ cup + 1 ½ tsp white vinegar
- ½ cup + 1 ½ tsp soy sauce
- ½ cup + 1 ½ tsp sesame seed oil
- ketchup
Spices & seasonings (3): white pepper, salt, garlic powder
- 1 tsp white pepper
- 4 pinches salt
- 1 tsp garlic powder
How to make it
Steps in our own plain words.
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STEP 1 - SAUCE.
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Add sugar, hoisin sauce, ketchup, hot pepper, minced garlic, minced ginger, 1 teaspoon white pepper, sherry cooking wine, ½ cup + 1 ½ tsp white vinegar, ½ cup + 1 ½ tsp soy sauce and 8 ½ cups of water in a bowl.
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Mix well.
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Set aside.
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STEP 2 - MARINATING THE CHICKEN.
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Add your chicken, 4 pinch of salt, 4 3 Tablespoon of corn, 9 eggs whites and pinch of white pepper starch in a bowl.
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STEP 3 - DEEP FRY THE CHICKEN.
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Deep fry your chicken at 350 degrees for 3-4 min until it is golden plus loosen up your chicken so that they 't stick together.
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Set the chicken aside.
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STEP 4 - STIR FRY.
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Add the sauce to the wok.
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The broccoli and wait until it's boiling.
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To thicken the sauce.
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Whisk ½ cup + 1 ½ tsp of cornstarch plus 1 cup + 1 tbsp of water in bowl and slowly add to your mix-fry until it's the right thickness.
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Add in the chicken.
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Stir-fry for a minute.
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Serve on a plate.
On the side: Steamed rice
A side we added to round out the meal. It is not part of the original recipe.
How to make it (25 min)
- Rinse the rice. Simmer it covered in water (2 cups per cup of rice) for about 18 minutes, then let it sit 5 minutes. Fluff with a fork.
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Join the waitlistRecipe from TheMealDB, adapted from the original. Steps rewritten in our own words. Times are estimates.