General Tso’s Chicken – How to make in four simple steps

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Hello everyone.
My name is KP Kwan.
I work in a restaurant and is a huge fan of Asian Food.
In this video, I want to show you how do we prepare the famous American Chinese dish,
General Tso's Chicken.
I've divided the recipe into four steps.Step 1, Marinate the chicken
Step 2, Coat the chicken with the dry coating ingredients, and deep fry.
Step 3, Making the General Tso's sauce.
Step 4, Saute the aromatics and combine everything together.
Let's take a look how to make it.
Step one is to marinate the chicken.
We always choose chicken thigh instead of breast meat because chicken breast is dark
meat is more flavorful.
Remove the bones, and also remove the skin and cut it into bite size.
Nest we add some egg white to produce a smooth texture, some dark soy sauce, that is to provide
some caramelized flavor and add some color too.
Nest we have two teaspoons of light soy sauce, that is basically to give you the umani of
the soy Add a tablespoon of Shaoxing wine.
Lastly some cornflour, that is to make sure that the liquid seasoning adheres to the chicken
meat.
Combine all the ingredients, and marinate overnight.
The prolonged marination enables the seasonings to penetrate through the meat.
Step 2 To prepare the dry coating ingredients
We will use this dry mixture to coat the chicken before deep-frying.
There are one, two, three, four, four items in this dry mix
We have cornstarch here.
We use cornstarch because it can create a crispy crust.
And then we have some plain flour.
That is the flour we use to make cakes.
The use of plain flour and cornstarch give a right balance of volume and crispiness.
So, we add both together.
And then, we add a little bit of baking soda.
-A small amount help to make to coating airy, light, just a little bit.
And lastly, salt, the standard item to season anything.
Mix all together.
And set aside.
We will start to fry the chicken, we gonna use this to coat the chicken first.
Step 3 is to prepare the sauce for the chicken.
We have dark soy sauce, light soy sauce, Shaoxing wine, vinegar, some sugar.
A small amount is added to improve the color of the General Tso's chicken.
Sesame oil, some cornstarch to thicken the sauce.
And finally, a little bit of water.
I will use this sauce to coat the deep-fried chicken before serving.
Step 4 - fried the chicken
Drain off any excess liquid from the marinated chicken.
Put it into the dry flour mix.
Combine the chicken with the flour mix.
Pour about 1 to 1.5-inch depth of oil into a pan and heat it up until it is about to
360 °F (180 °C).
Then shake off the excess flour on the surface of the chicken.
Deep fried the chicken until cooked through and turns golden brown about 5 minutes.
Stir occasionally to avoid the chicken pieces from sticking together.
After 4 minutes, drain the chicken pieces on a plate lined with a paper towel.
Coat the chicken with the sauce
After we have got everything in place.
It only takes a few minutes to finish the cooking.
Saute some aromatic ingredients in the wok.
We have minced ginger, minced garlic, some thinly sliced scallion, and dry chili.
Remove the seed and cut into 2cm length.
Sometimes we omit the dry chili upon our customer's request
Stir fry these items until aromatic.
Add the sauce to the wok and cook until it starts to boil.
Add the deep-fried chicken to the sauce.
Coat the chicken with the sauce thoroughly.
And it is done.
You can now serve your General Tso's chicken.
I hope the video showing every step clearly.
You can get the recipe and the in-depth explanation at tasteasianfood.com/general-tsos-chicken/
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Until then, I will see you again in the next video.
My name is KP Kwan.
Bye for now.

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