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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. Kung pao chicken exists both in the traditional Chinese repertoire and Americanized takeout menus alike.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have kung pao chicken using 26 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Kung Pao Chicken:
- Prepare 400 g Chicken Thighs
- Prepare 4-5 Cloves Garlic
- Take 4 tsp Sichuan Peppercorns
- Make ready 4 Birdseye Chilli
- Make ready 4 dried large red chillies
- Make ready 200 g Onion
- Take 200 g mixed Bell peppers
- Make ready 200 g Red Pepper
- Get Handful cashew nuts
- Take Handful ground nuts
- Get 1 stalk scallion, cut into rings
- Make ready The Marinade
- Get 1 tsp sesame oil
- Take 2 tsp sugar
- Take 1 pinch Chinese 5 spice
- Get 1 tsp ginger-garlic paste
- Prepare 1 tbsp light soy sauce
- Prepare Dash dark soy sauce
- Get 1/2 tablespoon cornflour
- Make ready Sauce
- Make ready 1 tbsp light soy
- Make ready 1 tbsp Sriracha sauce
- Prepare 1 tbsp rice vinegar
- Take 2 tsp sugar
- Make ready 50 ml chicken stock
- Get 1 tsp tomato paste
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Steps 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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