Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, kung pao chicken. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

I lived in China for two years, and this recipe (with some important but minor changes) comes very close to the Kung Pao chicken that can be found in Beijing restaurants. Remove the chicken from the skillet. Marinade: In a non-reactive bowl, prepare the marinade.

Kung Pao Chicken is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Kung Pao Chicken is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook kung pao chicken using 18 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Kung Pao Chicken:

1. Make ready Rice
2. Get Boneless chicken
3. Take 1 egg white
4. Get 1 tsp salt
5. Take 1/2 tsp onion powder
6. Get 2 tsp Chinese cooking wine
7. Prepare 3 tbsp cornflour
8. Make ready 1 tbsp Sichuan peppercorns
9. Make ready Handful red chillies
10. Prepare 4 spring onions
11. Make ready 1 tbsp garlic
12. Take 1 tsp ginger
13. Take 1 tbsp dou ban jiang (broad bean paste in chili oil)
14. Prepare 2 tbsp brown sugar
15. Make ready 1 tbsp light soy sauce
16. Take 2 tbsp Chinese black vinegar (or balsamic vinegar)
17. Make ready 1 tsp dark soy sauce
18. Prepare 1/3 cup toasted peanuts

Kung pao chicken, the popular Chinese takeout dish of stir-fried chicken, peanuts and vegetables, is traditionally made with lots of specialty ingredients, like Sichuan peppercorns, Chinese black vinegar, Chinese rice wine, and whole dried red chilies. Kung Pao Chicken We love the strong flavoured sweet-sour-savoury sauce with the signature tingle of numbing heat from the Sichuan pepper! If you're wondering whether Kung Pao Chicken is authentic Chinese , the dish as we know it outside of China is a slightly westernised version of an authentic Chinese Sichuan dish. Combine chicken and cornstarch in small bowl.

Instructions to make Kung Pao Chicken:

1. Dice the chicken and place into a mixing bowl
2. Add the salt, onion powder and Chinese cooking wine then mix. Add 1.5tbsp cornflour and 1 egg white then mix until a creamy, velvety texture is achieved. Set aside for 20mins
3. Carefully chop Sichuan peppercorns into a dust where no whole peppercorns remain
4. Roughly chop the red chillies
5. Chop the spring onions, garlic and ginger
6. Chop through the broadbean paste to release flavour
7. Heat vegetable oil in wok. Add the chicken mixture and fry until cooked. Remove and set aside
8. Heat a little more vegetable oil in the wok. Add the dou ban jiang paste and stir on low heat for 2mins. Once the oil has turned orange, add the garlic, ginger, Sichuan peppercorns, red chillies and brown sugar then stir until the sugar has melted
9. Return the chicken to the wok and continue to mix until all chicken is coated
10. Cook rice in salted water in a separate pot
11. To the wok, add: light soy sauce, Chinese black vinegar and dark soy sauce then mix well
12. Mix 2tsp cornflour with 1/2cup water. Add to the wok and stir immediately. Once the sauce thickens, add the toasted peanuts and spring onion whites. Mix well and season to taste
13. Serve alongside rice and top with spring onion greens

Heat oil in large non-stick skillet or wok on medium heat. Traditional Kung Pao Chicken contains chicken, peanuts, and green onions. Kung Pao Chicken (宫保鸡丁) in Chinese is a stir-fried dish with chicken cubes, dried chili pepper and deep-fried peanuts. The tender taste of the chicken matches great with the crispy peanuts with a combined sweet, sour and spicy taste. The name of Kung Pao comes from a court official Ding Baozhen in Qing dynasty.

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