General Tso's Chicken - 19

Recipe Ingredients

4		Skinned chicken legs - cut in 6 pieces each
2		Egg whites
2 teaspoons	10ml	Cornstarch
1 tablespoon	15ml	Rice vinegar
1 tablespoon	15ml	Light soy sauce
1 tablespoon	15ml	Rice wine
1 teaspoon	5ml	Sugar
1 teaspoon	5ml	Cornstarch - mixed with
1 teaspoon	5ml	Water
1/2 cup	118ml	Peanut oil
3		Dried red chili peppers
1		Scallion - chopped
		(separate white and green parts)
1		Knob fresh ginger - minced (small)
1		Garlic clove - minced
2 teaspoons	10ml	Sesame oil

Recipe Instructions

Vigorously blend egg whites and cornstarch; add chicken pieces and toss to coat. Heat oil in large wok and add chicken pieces in batches, cooking each until golden, about 3 minutes, then draining. Pour off all but 1 TB of hot oil from wok. Add peppers and stir-fry for 15 seconds; add green scallion, minced ginger and garlic and stir-fry for 15 more seconds. Add mixture of vinegar, soy, wine, and sugar, stirring until heated through. Add cornstarch and water mixture and stir until mixture is thickened. Off heat, stir in sesame oil, garnish with scallion greens, and serve.

NOTE FROM ALAN CLAVER: Just made my bi-monthly batch of General Tso's Chicken. I've been trying for many months to get it to come out just like in my favorite Chinese restaurant but couldn't. Well, I recently read about the double frying method of cooking and thought I'd try it - Yippee! that's what we missing. What you do is deep fry the chicken pieces once, then put them aside for a bit and reheat the oil. Then, fry them a second time. This really gives them extra crispiness and flavor. You couldn't tell this batch from a professional version

Source:
Marius Kirschner

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