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General tsao's chicken
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Ingredients:
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| lbs | Boneless chicken breasts cut | | | -into 1 in pieces | | 3
| tbsp | Soy suace | | 3
| tbsp | Cornstarch | | 1
| | Egg white beaten until | | | -frothy | | 1
| cup | Veg. 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
| tbsp | White wine vinegar | | 1
| tbsp | White wine | | 1
| tsp | Cornstarch | | 1
| tsp | Sesame oil | | 1/2
| tsp | Salt | | 1
| tsp | Brown sugar |
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Procedures:
| 1 | Wow, 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. | | 3 | General tsao was a real person, general and poet who lived in china 155-220 ad. | | 4 | Rn e in the frig for 1 hour. | | 5 | Heat the oil in a wok. | | 6 | Deep fry the chicken, a few pieces at a time, about 1 minute or until golden brown. | | 7 | Remove and drain on paper towels. | | 8 | Pour all but 2 tb of the oil out of the wok. | | 9 | To the oil in the wok, add the chili peppers, garlic and ginger, stir-fry 2 minutes. | | 10 | In a small bowl, combine the remaining soy sauce, vinegar, white wine and 1 tea cornstarch, mix until smooth. | | 11 | Stir in sugar, sesame oil and salt. | | 12 | Pour into wok, cook, stirring for 2 minutes until thickened. | | 13 | Return chicken pieces to wok, mix well and serve |
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