Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, szechuan kung pao chicken. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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. Kung Pao chicken (Chinese: 宫保鸡丁; pinyin: Gōngbǎo jīdīng), also transcribed Gong Bao or Kung Po, is a spicy, stir-fried Chinese dish made with cubes of chicken, peanuts, vegetables (traditionally Welsh onion only), and chili peppers.
Szechuan Kung Pao Chicken is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Szechuan Kung Pao Chicken is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first 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:
- Get 350 g Chicken Meat (thighs preferably, skinless, boneless)
- Take Marinade;
- Take 1 Tbsp Light Soy Sauce
- Make ready 1 Tbsp Rice Vinegar
- Make ready 2 tsp Corn Flour
- Take 1 Tbsp Cooking Oil
- Take Pre-Sauce Mix (mix well in a bowl);
- Get 1 Tbsp Light Soy Sauce
- Prepare 1 Tbsp Rice Vinegar
- Get 1 Tbsp Sugar
- Get 1 tsp Chilli Powder (optional)
- Prepare 2 Tbsp Water
- Make ready Stir Frying;
- Get 1 Tbsp Szechuan Peppercorn
- Get 12 pc Dried Chillies (halved, deseed)
- Prepare 20 g Ginger (minced)
- Prepare 20 g Garlic (minced)
- Get 20 g Spring Onions (white part, finely chopped)
- Take as needed Cooking Oil
- Get Thickener (mix well in a small bowl);
- Get 1 tsp Corn Flour
- Take 1 Tbsp Water
- Prepare Other Ingredients;
- Take 70 g Toasted Peanuts (1/2 cup)
- Take as needed Spring Onion (green part finely chopped, garnish)
- Get 1-2 Tbsp Black Vinegar (Chin Kiang Vinegar)
The dish has also made its way out of China, and remains a common sight on. Kung Pao is the name of a dish originating from Sichuan province of China. It contains chicken, peanuts, vegetables, etc. that are all tossed up in a brown concoction. Soft chicken pieces contrast well with crisp peanuts and celery.
Instructions to make Szechuan Kung Pao Chicken:
- MARINADE; marinate the chicken with the Light Soy Sauce, Rice Vinegar, Corn Flour and Cooking Oil for 30 minutes
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
What are the differences between Hunan, Szechuan, and Kung Pao? Kung Pao Chicken is a Chinese takeout with spicy chicken, peanuts, veggies in Kung Pao sauce. Kung Pao Chicken is from the Sichuan province in China. The Chinese name is 宫保鸡丁 (gong bao ji ding) but some restaurants spell it as Gong Bao Chicken or Kung Po Chicken. Now that my son has discovered the big, bright, beautiful world of Chinese-American take-out, it's all he wants to eat these days.
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