General Tso’s Chicken
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General Tso’s Chicken
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| Servings | Prep Time |
| 4people | 20minutes |
| Cook Time |
| 35minutes |
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Ingredients
- 900g Chicken Filletsuse thigh or breast to preference cut into bitesize cubes
- 6tbsp Cornflour
- 2tbsp Soy Sauce
- 3tbsp Peanut Oil
- 3 Eggs
- 1tbsp Ground Ginger
- 4cloves Garliccrushed
- 10 Dry Chilli Pods
- 2tbsp Sesame Oil
- Peanut Oilto fry chicken
- Jasmine Riceto serve
- Spring Onionthinly sliced to garnish
Sauce
- 1cup Chicken Stockuse stock cube
- 1tbsp Cornflour
- 1/4cup White Wine Vinegar
- 1/4cup Soy Sauce
- 1/4cup Sugar
- 3tbsp Tomato Paste
- 3tbsp Hoisin Sauce
Instructions
Sauce
- Place all of the sauce ingredients into a bowl and mix until combined. Set aside.
Chicken
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the cornflour, soy sauce, eggs and peanut oil.
- Add chicken to bowl and make sure all pieces are fully coated.
- Fill wok with enough peanut oil to cover a batch of chicken pieces. Heat oil to approx 190°C.
- Cook chicken in batches for 4-5 minutes, turn over half way through. Remove each batch and place on plate lined with paper towel.
- Save 1/4 cup of the used oil and discard the remainder.
- Allow wok to cool and wipe clean.
- Heat (set aside) oil in wok over high heat and add ground ginger, garlic and chillies. Stir-fry for 30 seconds.
- Stir the set aside sauce to ensure it is mixed through and pour into wok. Cook for about 5 minutes until the sauce thickens.
- Add chicken to the wok and stir to ensure the chicken pieces are coated with the sauce. Cook for about 2 minutes and remove from wok
- Drizzle sesame oil over the chicken, garnish with spring onion and serve with Jasmine Rice