How to Prepare Perfect Kung Pao Chicken

Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, kung pao chicken. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Kung Pao Chicken is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Kung Pao Chicken is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

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

The ingredients needed to make Kung Pao Chicken:

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

Steps 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

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