General Tso Chicken
"this is definately one of the most popular chinese dishes"
- Ready In:
- 24mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Serves:
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8
ingredients
- 2 lbs chicken
- 1⁄4 cup hot Chinese chili paste
- 1⁄4 cup Thai sweet chili sauce
- 1⁄4 cup crushed red pepper flakes
- 1⁄4 cup sherry wine or 1/4 cup rice wine
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 2 garlic cloves
- 1⁄4 cup sugar
- 2 chili peppers, pods
- 2 lbs chicken
- 1⁄4 cup peanut oil
directions
- Combine chili paste, crushed red pepper, garlic, thai chili sauce, soy sauce, sherry, sugar and reduce into a sauce.
- Saute chili pods in peanut oil, cook chicken in chili oil mixture.
- Add sauce and simmer chicken pieces in sauce until done, serve.
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Reviews
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I would have given this recipe four stars if not for the call for 1/4 cup red pepper flakes. I made the sauce following directions exactly, but I had second thoughts about putting in that much red pepper flakes, so I tasted the sauce before pouring over chicken, and I'm glad I did. It tasted really good, but if I had served it like that, the amount of pepper flakes may have killed someone. I put the sauce through a sieve, which got rid of all but about a tablespoon of the flakes. That minor adjustment made all the difference in the world. The dish was really delicious. Unless you have an asbestos mouth (and stomach), I highly recommend cutting the red pepper flakes to about a tablespoon.
