General Tso’s Chicken
Ingredients
Ingredients
SAUCE
BATTER
Food Safety
Before you start, wash all surfaces and your hands with soap and warm water, and remember to wash your hands, utensils and cutting boards after they touch raw meat or eggs. Avoid cross-contamination by using a different cutting board for your meat and other ingredients. Make sure you’re cooking to safe temperatures and chilling any leftovers within two hours. For more food safety tips, visit our Food Safety at Home Section.
Steps
Cut chicken into small bite-size pieces. They should measure about 2 ½ cups (625 mL). Set aside.
For sauce, heat broth in a large frying pan over medium heat. Add ginger (It must be very finely chopped), sherry, vinegar, soy sauce and hot garlic chili sauce. Boil gently for 10 minutes to develop flavor, then reduce heat to low and add tomato paste. Stir 2 Tbsp (30 mL) cornstarch with the same amount of water. Add to the sauce and stir fairly constantly until thickened, about 3 minutes. Remove from the heat.
For chicken coating, in a medium size bowl, whisk ½ cup (125 mL) cornstarch with soya, sesame oil and egg whites. Cover the bottom of a wide deep frying pan or flat bottomed wok with about ½ inch (1 cm) canola oil. Place over medium heat. Add about a quarter of the chicken pieces to the cornstarch coating. When oil is hot enough to quickly brown a little cube of bread (375°F/190°C), remove a few chicken pieces from the cornstarch coating, draining off excess coating and place in the hot oil. Repeat until all pieces in the coating are added to the oil. Fry, turning chicken pieces often, until beautifully browned, 3 to 4 min. As soon as pieces are browned, remove to a paper towel lined plate. Repeat process with remaining chicken.
Return sauce to medium heat and stir gently until hot. Then add all the coated chicken and stir gently and constantly until chicken is hot, about 2 min. If sauce seems too thick, add water to sauce, a tablespoon (15 mL) at a time, until the right consistency for evenly coating chicken. Serve on rice and sprinkle with sesame seeds and green onions.
Nutrition Info
Per serving | Amount |
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Calories | 396 |
Protein | 26 g |
Fat | 21 g |
Saturated Fat | 3 g |
Carbohydrate | 23 g |
Fibre | 1 g |
Sugar | 3 g |
Cholesterol | 95 mg |
Sodium | 1393 mg |
Per serving | % Daily Value |
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Potassium | 16 |
Calcium | 3 |
Iron | 16 |
Vitamin A | 4 |
Vitamin C | 13 |
Vitamin B6 | 22 |
Vitamin B12 | 13 |
Folate | 5 |
Zinc | 27 |