
General Tso's Chicken
Craggy fried chicken in glossy sweet-heat lacquer — the takeout heavyweight, ratio corrected.
- Total
- 35 min
- Serves
- 4
The American-Chinese heavyweight: battered chicken fried crisp, then tossed in a glossy sweet-savory sauce of soy, duck sauce and stock that clings to every craggy edge. General Tso's is sweet-heat engineering refined over decades of takeout devotion — and the homemade version finally gets the crunch-to-sauce ratio right.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 Chicken Breast
- 3/4 cup Plain Flour
- 1 Egg
- 2 tbs Starch
- 1 tbs Baking Powder
- 1 tsp Salt
- 1/2 tsp Onion Salt
- 1/4 tsp Garlic Powder
- 3/4 cup Water
- 1/2 cup Chicken Stock
- 1/4 cup Duck Sauce
- 3 tbs Soy Sauce
- 2 tbs Honey
- 1 tbs Rice Vinegar
- 2 tbs Sesame Seed Oil
- 1/2 tbs Gochujang
- 2 tbs Starch
- 1 clove Garlic
- 2 chopped Spring Onions
- 1 tsp Ginger
Instructions
- DIRECTIONS:
- STEP 1 - SAUCE
- In a bowl, add 2 Cups of water, 2 Tablespoon soy sauce, 2 Tablespoon white vinegar, sherry cooking wine, 1/4 Teaspoon white pepper, minced ginger, minced garlic, hot pepper, ketchup, hoisin sauce, and sugar.
- Mix together well and set aside.
- STEP 2 - MARINATING THE CHICKEN
- In a bowl, add the chicken, 1 pinch of salt, 1 pinch of white pepper, 2 egg whites, and 3 Tablespoon of corn starch
- STEP 3 - DEEP FRY THE CHICKEN
- Deep fry the chicken at 350 degrees for 3-4 minutes or until it is golden brown and loosen up the chicken so that they don't stick together.
- Set the chicken aside.
- STEP 4 - STIR FRY
- Add the sauce to the wok and then the broccoli and wait until it is boiling.
- To thicken the sauce, whisk together 2 Tablespoon of cornstarch and 4 Tablespoon of water in a bowl and slowly add to your stir-fry until it's the right thickness.
- Next add in the chicken and stir-fry for a minute and serve on a plate
Nutrition (per serving)
- Calories
- 450
- Protein
- 30 g
- Fat
- 15 g
- Carbs
- 50 g
Adapted from skinnytaste.com. Rewritten and re-photographed by MealIdeas.
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