Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, general’s chicken. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
General Tso's chicken 左宗棠雞 (pronounced [tswò]) is a sweet deep-fried chicken dish that is served in North American Chinese restaurants. Take a pic and share yours in the comments below! This is a popular Chinese-American dish that appears in suburban Chinese restaurants here in Australia under various other guises.
General’s Chicken is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. General’s Chicken is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook general’s chicken using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make General’s Chicken:
- Take 8 pieces chicken wings
- Prepare 1 piece eggplant, sliced thinly into 2x3 inch chips lengthwise
- Make ready 2 eggs, beaten
- Make ready 1/4 cup flour, or enough flour for chicken
- Prepare 1/4 cup flour for eggplant
- Prepare 4 cloves garlic, minced
- Take 1/4 chilli flakes (optional to include or add more if desired)
- Make ready 2 tablespoon rice wine
- Prepare 2 tablespoon soy sauce
- Get 2 tablespoon white sugar (adjust according to taste)
- Take 1/2 tablespoon vinegar (adjust according to taste)
- Prepare 2 teaspoon flour
- Prepare 1 teaspoon lemon or calamansi juice
- Make ready Cooking oil for deep fry of chicken and eggplant (fry separately)
General Tso's Chicken is a Chinese-American dish of fried chicken pieces that are breaded and tossed in a tangy sauce. We did use chicken breasts instead of thighs but literally was the best General's we've ever tasted. General Tso's Chicken–fried chicken pieces in a sweet & spicy sauce with crunchy broccoli. General Tso's Chicken was supposedly named after Zuo Zongtang, a military leader from Hunan.
Steps to make General’s Chicken:
- Prepare eggplant chips. Cut the eggplant into 2x3 inch lengthwise chips. Layout on top of a kitchen cloth, cover on top with another cloth to dry. Leave for around 15 minutes. Once dry, dredge in flour and set aside for frying.
- Prepare chicken and batter. Mix the eggs with flour, beat until well incorporated. Dip the chicken pieces in the batter and coat throroughly when ready to deep fry.
- Prepare the sauce. Mix the sauce ingredients in a bowl except for the garlic and chilli flakes. Sauce ingredients are vinegar, soy sauce, rice wine, sugar, flour, lemon / calamansi juice. Taste and adjust sauce according to taste. Set aside.
- Fry eggplant and chicken. Heat oil in deep fryer or wok. Deep fry eggplant chips until golden / dark brown in colour. Set aside. Remove excess oil. Deep fry chicken until golden brown in colour. Set aside.
- Serving and plating the dish. 5-10 minutes before serving, saute minced garlic and chilli flakes in frying pan. Add chicken to reheat. Stir to coat chicken pieces with garlic and chilli flakes. Add prepared sauce into pan and let simmer until sayce thickens, mixing well to chicken. Add eggplant chips and stir to coat chips with sauce as well.
This recipe for General Tso's chicken is battered crispy chicken pieces tossed in a sweet and spicy sauce. General Tso's chicken is one of my all time favorite Chinese food dishes. An easy General Tso's chicken recipe that yields crispy chicken without deep-frying. It also uses much less sugar while maintaining a great bold taste. Once you've tried it, you'll skip takeout next time.
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