Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, general’s chicken. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
General’s Chicken is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. General’s Chicken is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
General Tso's chicken (pronounced [tswò]) is a sweet deep-fried chicken dish that is served in North American Chinese restaurants. The dish is named after Zuo Zongtang. This recipe is my version of General Tso's chicken.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have general’s chicken using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make General’s Chicken:
- Make ready 8 pieces chicken wings
- Take 1 piece eggplant, sliced thinly into 2x3 inch chips lengthwise
- Take 2 eggs, beaten
- Get 1/4 cup flour, or enough flour for chicken
- Prepare 1/4 cup flour for eggplant
- Make ready 4 cloves garlic, minced
- Take 1/4 chilli flakes (optional to include or add more if desired)
- Make ready 2 tablespoon rice wine
- Take 2 tablespoon soy sauce
- Prepare 2 tablespoon white sugar (adjust according to taste)
- Make ready 1/2 tablespoon vinegar (adjust according to taste)
- Take 2 teaspoon flour
- Prepare 1 teaspoon lemon or calamansi juice
- Prepare Cooking oil for deep fry of chicken and eggplant (fry separately)
General Tso's Chicken was one of my favorite college days late night Chinese food delivery orders. The spicier, zestier less popular cousin to the ever popular Orange Chicken, General Tso's Chicken. This recipe for General Tso's chicken is battered crispy chicken pieces tossed in a sweet and spicy sauce. General Tso's chicken is one of my all time favorite Chinese food dishes.
Steps to make General’s Chicken:
- Prepare eggplant chips. Cut the eggplant into 2x3 inch lengthwise chips. Layout on top of a kitchen cloth, cover on top with another cloth to dry. Leave for around 15 minutes. Once dry, dredge in flour and set aside for frying.
- Prepare chicken and batter. Mix the eggs with flour, beat until well incorporated. Dip the chicken pieces in the batter and coat throroughly when ready to deep fry.
- Prepare the sauce. Mix the sauce ingredients in a bowl except for the garlic and chilli flakes. Sauce ingredients are vinegar, soy sauce, rice wine, sugar, flour, lemon / calamansi juice. Taste and adjust sauce according to taste. Set aside.
- Fry eggplant and chicken. Heat oil in deep fryer or wok. Deep fry eggplant chips until golden / dark brown in colour. Set aside. Remove excess oil. Deep fry chicken until golden brown in colour. Set aside.
- Serving and plating the dish. 5-10 minutes before serving, saute minced garlic and chilli flakes in frying pan. Add chicken to reheat. Stir to coat chicken pieces with garlic and chilli flakes. Add prepared sauce into pan and let simmer until sayce thickens, mixing well to chicken. Add eggplant chips and stir to coat chips with sauce as well.
This is General Tso's Chicken done right. Yesterday I mentioned that I had a cashew chicken recipe fail that I ended up tossing down the drain. Add chicken to sauce in wok and heat just until the chicken is hot enough for you. It may not even need a minute if you kept the. An easy General Tso's chicken recipe that yields crispy chicken without deep-frying.
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