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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have kung pao chicken using 26 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Kung Pao Chicken:
- Get 400 g Chicken Thighs
- Get 4-5 Cloves Garlic
- Get 4 tsp Sichuan Peppercorns
- Prepare 4 Birdseye Chilli
- Take 4 dried large red chillies
- Make ready 200 g Onion
- Take 200 g mixed Bell peppers
- Get 200 g Red Pepper
- Get Handful cashew nuts
- Prepare Handful ground nuts
- Make ready 1 stalk scallion, cut into rings
- Get The Marinade
- Prepare 1 tsp sesame oil
- Prepare 2 tsp sugar
- Get 1 pinch Chinese 5 spice
- Prepare 1 tsp ginger-garlic paste
- Take 1 tbsp light soy sauce
- Take Dash dark soy sauce
- Prepare 1/2 tablespoon cornflour
- Take Sauce
- Take 1 tbsp light soy
- Prepare 1 tbsp Sriracha sauce
- Get 1 tbsp rice vinegar
- Prepare 2 tsp sugar
- Get 50 ml chicken stock
- Prepare 1 tsp tomato paste
Versions commonly found in the West, called Kung Pao chicken, Kung Po, or just chicken chili and garlic, consist of diced, marinated chicken, stir-fried with orange or orange juice, ginger, garlic, chicken broth, sugar, cooking oil, corn starch, and salt and pepper to taste. Kung Pao Chicken is a dish featuring small pieces of diced chicken, peanuts, and chilies. While the dish originated in Sichuan province, its fame brought it to other provinces as well, each with their own regional variation. 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:
- Immediately, soak large red chilies, whole, in hot water for 10-15 minutes
- While the chillies are soaking, finely slice the onion, bell peppers and red pepper, before then cutting your chicken thighs into cubes. Set the cubed chicken into a separate bowl, then finely dice the garlic and birdseye chillies and finally crush the Sichuanese peppercorns with either a pestle and mortar or rolling pin.
- Next, marinate your chicken. Ensuring that the cornflour is introduced last, add all of the marinade ingredients to the cubed chicken and then massage well.
- In a separate bowl, mix all of the sauce ingredients together.
- At this point, your large red chilies should be soaked. Remove them from the hot water and place in a bowl with the chopped garlic, Birdseye chilies and Sichuan peppercorns to form your ‘Spice Mix’.
- Heat 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil in a wok to high heat. Once smoking hot, add the onions and peppers and stir-fry for 2 minutes. Push the onions and peppers to one side of the wok and add an extra 1/2 a teaspoon of oil to center of wok.
- Bring the oil to a high heat and add the chicken. Allow the chicken to sit and sear on one side, before then folding it through with the peppers and onions and stir-frying until the chicken is golden brown.
- Now, add the spice mix, immediately followed by the sauce, and continue to cook for 2 minutes. Finally, add cashew nuts, scallions and serve - preferably with some steamed rice!
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While the dish originated in Sichuan province, its fame brought it to other provinces as well, each with their own regional variation. Kung Pao Chicken is a highly addictive stir-fried chicken with the perfect combination of salty, sweet and spicy flavour! Make Kung Pao Chicken better than Chinese take out right at home! 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.
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