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
- 3 marinating chicken
Fresh & other
- 2 ½ cups water
- 4 tbsp corn
- 3 egg whites
- 2 ½ tbsp cornstarch
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 ¼ tsp ginger
- broccoli
- sugar
- wine
Sauces & oils
- 2 ½ tbsp white vinegar
- 2 ½ tbsp soy sauce
- 2 ½ tbsp sesame seed oil
- ketchup
Spices & seasonings (3): white pepper, salt, garlic powder
- ¼ tsp white pepper
- 1 pinch salt
- ¼ 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, ¼ teaspoon white pepper, sherry cooking wine, 2 ½ tablespoons white vinegar, 2 ½ tablespoons soy sauce and 2 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, 1 pinch of salt, 1 4 tablespoons of corn, about 3 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 2 ½ tablespoons of cornstarch plus ¼ 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.