Steps to Prepare Award-winning General Tso Chicken

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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have general tso chicken using 28 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make General Tso Chicken:

1. Prepare Marinade
2. Take Egg White
3. Make ready Soy Sauce
4. Get Dry Sherry
5. Prepare Chinese Cooking Wine
6. Take Baking Soda
7. Prepare Corn Starch
8. Prepare Course ground black pepper
9. Make ready Boneless skinless chicken thighs
10. Take Coating
11. Prepare Flour
12. Take Corn Starch
13. Make ready Baking Powder
14. Take Salt
15. Get Sauce
16. Get Soy Sauce
17. Take Chinese Cooking Wine
18. Get Rice Vinegar
19. Get Chicken Stock
20. Prepare White Sugar
21. Make ready Sesame Oil
22. Get Corn Starch
23. Make ready Peanut Oil
24. Prepare Minced Garlic
25. Take Minced Ginger
26. Get Minced green onion
27. Make ready Red pepper flakes
28. Prepare Green Onions cut in 1/2 - 1 inch lengths

Steps to make General Tso Chicken:

1. Cut chicken thighs in to 1 - 1 1/2 inch pieces
2. Mix marinade ingredients in to a bowl. Ensure no lumps, then add the chicken pieces. Coat chicken well then set aside.
3. Mix dry coating ingredients. Make sure it is well mixed. Set aside.
4. Add about 1 inch of peanut oil to pot or stove top crock pot and begin heating oil to approx 350 degrees.
5. While oil is heating, add the chicken from the marinade to the dry mix and coat each piece thoroughly.
6. When oil is hot, add the chicken one piece at a time gently in to the oil. Fry for 5-6 minutes or until crispy and lightly browned. Remove chicken from the oil in to a paper towel lined dish. Repeat until all of the chicken is cooked.
7. Sauce - Mix sauce ingredients in a bowl except for garlic, ginger, and minced green onion and 1/2 sliced green onion.
8. Gently fry garlic, ginger, and minced green onion in fry pan with a little bit of peanut oil 2-3 minutes.
9. Add mixed sauce ingredients to fry pan and simmer until thickened. As soon as sauce thickens, remove from heat. It is better to remove if from the fry pan and put in to a bowl.
10. When the chicken has finished cooking, add in to the fry pan (no heat) that the sauce was cooked in. Pour the sauce over the cooked crispy chicken and mix very well to ensure each piece of chicken is coated. Garnish with the remaining 1/2 of sliced green onion.
11. Serve over rice.

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