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General tsao's chicken

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Categories: Asian, Chicken, Meats, Poultry
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Ingredients:
1 lbsBoneless chicken breasts cut
-into 1 in pieces
3 tbspSoy suace
3 tbspCornstarch
1 Egg white beaten until
-frothy
1 cupVeg. oil
3 Hot dried chili peppers
-broken in half
2 Cloves garlic finely chopped
1 Piece ginger root (1 in)
-peeled and finely chopped
1 tbspWhite wine vinegar
1 tbspWhite wine
1 tspCornstarch
1 tspSesame oil
1/2 tspSalt
1 tspBrown sugar
Procedures:
1Wow, with over a dozen chinese or oriental cookbooks, i had a hard time finding this recipe! it is probably called something else (like spicy fried chicken) and i really do have a dozen recipes.
2:) this one is from _elegant_ entertaining_cookbook_ by myra sable of sable and rosenfeld, bantam books.
3General tsao was a real person, general and poet who lived in china 155-220 ad.
4Rn e in the frig for 1 hour.
5Heat the oil in a wok.
6Deep fry the chicken, a few pieces at a time, about 1 minute or until golden brown.
7Remove and drain on paper towels.
8Pour all but 2 tb of the oil out of the wok.
9To the oil in the wok, add the chili peppers, garlic and ginger, stir-fry 2 minutes.
10In a small bowl, combine the remaining soy sauce, vinegar, white wine and 1 tea cornstarch, mix until smooth.
11Stir in sugar, sesame oil and salt.
12Pour into wok, cook, stirring for 2 minutes until thickened.
13Return chicken pieces to wok, mix well and serve
 
 
 
 

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