Kung Pao Chicken
Kung Pao Chicken

Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, kung pao chicken. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

I lived in China for two years, and this recipe (with some important but minor changes) comes very close to the Kung Pao chicken that can be found in Beijing restaurants. 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.

Kung Pao Chicken is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Kung Pao Chicken is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook kung pao chicken using 19 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Kung Pao Chicken:
  1. Get 500 grams Chicken thigh fillet, diced
  2. Take 1 tbsp Soy sauce
  3. Take 1 tbsp Sao xing wine/Chinese rice wine
  4. Make ready 1 tsp Corn starch
  5. Take Cooking Sauce:
  6. Make ready 1 tbsp Light soy sauce
  7. Take 1 tbsp Dark soy sauce
  8. Get 1 tbsp Sesame oil
  9. Take 1 tsp Hoisin sauce
  10. Make ready 1 tsp Sugar
  11. Make ready 1 tsp Corn starch
  12. Take 2 cm Ginger, grated
  13. Take 2 cloves Garlic, chopped
  14. Get 1/2 cup Roasted cashews
  15. Make ready 2 pcs Shallots, thin sliced
  16. Take 1 pcs Red capsicum, remove seed and diced
  17. Make ready 5 pcs Dried Chilli, chopped
  18. Make ready 2 tbsp Olive oil
  19. Get Salt

Marinade: In a non-reactive bowl, prepare the marinade. Combine the rice wine, peanut oil, soy sauce, salt and cornstarch. Kung pao chicken, the popular Chinese takeout dish of stir-fried chicken, peanuts and vegetables, is traditionally made with lots of specialty ingredients, like Sichuan peppercorns, Chinese black vinegar, Chinese rice wine, and whole dried red chilies. Kung Pao Chicken is a highly addictive stir-fried chicken with the perfect combination of salty, sweet and spicy flavour!

Steps to make Kung Pao Chicken:
  1. Marinade chicken with soy sauce, rice wine and corn starch and keep it in the fridge for an hour.
  2. Mix light and dark soy sauce, sesame oil, hoisin sauce, sugar, ginger and corn starch in a bowl
  3. Heat 1 tbsp of oil into non sticky pan and stir fry the chicken until brown, put a side.
  4. Heat the remaining oil into the pan and stir fry the garlic and dried chilli until fragrance. Add the capsicum and stir for a minute. Add sring onion and also the chicken back into the work. Add mixed sauce and cashews then stir for 2 minutes. Add a little bit of salt as optional.
  5. Remove from the heat and serve it with hot steam rice. Put coriander leaves on the top as a garnish.

Make Kung Pao Chicken better than Chinese take out right at home! With crisp-tender, mouthwatering chicken pieces swimming in the most delicious silky Chinese sauce exploding with flavour, this is one Kung Pao chicken recipe. Traditional Kung Pao Chicken contains chicken, peanuts, and green onions. Combine chicken and cornstarch in small bowl. Heat oil in large non-stick skillet or wok on medium heat.

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