Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, kung pao chicken. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Kung Pao Chicken is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Kung Pao Chicken is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have kung pao chicken using 26 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Kung Pao Chicken:
- Make ready Chicken Thighs
- Make ready Garlic
- Make ready Sichuan Peppercorns
- Get Birdseye Chilli
- Make ready dried large red chillies
- Prepare Onion
- Make ready mixed Bell peppers
- Take Red Pepper
- Make ready cashew nuts
- Make ready ground nuts
- Take scallion, cut into rings
- Take The Marinade
- Prepare sesame oil
- Get sugar
- Take Chinese 5 spice
- Prepare ginger-garlic paste
- Prepare light soy sauce
- Take dark soy sauce
- Prepare cornflour
- Prepare Sauce
- Get light soy
- Take Sriracha sauce
- Prepare rice vinegar
- Prepare sugar
- Take chicken stock
- Take tomato paste
Instructions 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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