Easiest Way to Prepare Favorite Kung Pao Chicken

Kung Pao Chicken
Kung Pao Chicken

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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. Homemade Chinese chicken in a savory and spicy sauce. Kung Pao Chicken is a Chinese takeout favourite that is mouthwateringly good and highly addictive - so it's a good thing it's easy to make at home so we don't need to order takeout every time we crave it!!

Kung Pao Chicken is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Kung Pao Chicken is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook kung pao chicken using 19 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Kung Pao Chicken:
  1. Prepare vegetable oil
  2. Take garlic, minced
  3. Prepare ginger, thinly sliced
  4. Get red bell pepper, diced
  5. Take dried red chilies, soaked in hot water for 30 minutes- 1 hour, seeded and cut into halves
  6. Get roasted peanuts 🥜
  7. Make ready green onions, cut 1/2 cm
  8. Make ready boneless chicken thighs/breast, diced, pat dry with paper towels
  9. Prepare For the chicken marinade:
  10. Get sesame oil
  11. Take cornstarch
  12. Make ready soy sauce
  13. Make ready For the Kung Pao sauce:
  14. Make ready Chinese Shaoxing rice wine (optional)
  15. Prepare soy sauce
  16. Prepare dark soy sauce
  17. Take Chinese black vinegar
  18. Take sugar
  19. Get water

The Chinese name is 宫保鸡丁 (gong bao ji ding) but some restaurants spell it as Gong Bao Chicken or Kung Po Chicken. Kung pao chicken, the popular Chinese takeout dish of stir-fried chicken, peanuts and vegetables, is traditionally made with lots of specialty ingredients, like Sichuan peppercorns, Chinese black vinegar. Kung Pao chicken is so popular here in the U. S., it'd be tempting to assume that it's a Chinese-American dish, but in fact this spicy Chinese chicken stir-fry is an authentic Sichuan dish.

Steps to make Kung Pao Chicken:
  1. In a medium bowl, add chicken and marinade sauce. Mix well. Set aside for at least 30 minutes.
  2. In a small bowl, mix well the ingredients for the sauce. Set aside.
  3. Heat the vegetable oil in a pan over medium high heat. Sauté garlic, ginger, and dried red chilies until fragrant and smell spicy.
  4. Add chicken. Keep stirring until the chicken change color.
  5. Add roasted peanuts and red bell peppers. Mix well.
  6. Add the sauce mixture. Cook until the chicken is evenly coated with the sauce. - Add green onions. Stir again for a while. Remove from the heat.
  7. Serve hot over steam white rice. - Yum! 😋

Kung Pao chicken is so popular here in the U. S., it'd be tempting to assume that it's a Chinese-American dish, but in fact this spicy Chinese chicken stir-fry is an authentic Sichuan dish. Cooking Kung Pao chicken is easy! This recipe shows you how it's prepared the authentic way. I'm confidant this Kung Pao Chicken recipe will be the best Chinese food you've ever made from home!

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