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Simple Way to Make Any-night-of-the-week Kung Pao Chicken

 ·  ☕ 2 min read  ·  ✍️ Aaron Sanders
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Kung Pao Chicken

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, kung pao chicken. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Kung Pao Chicken is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Kung Pao Chicken is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook kung pao chicken using 19 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Kung Pao Chicken:
  1. Prepare 2 Tbsp vegetable oil
  2. Make ready 3 cloves garlic, minced
  3. Make ready 2 cm ginger, thinly sliced
  4. Get 1/2 red bell pepper, diced
  5. Take 12 dried red chilies, soaked in hot water for 30 minutes- 1 hour, seeded and cut into halves
  6. Get 50 gr roasted peanuts 🥜
  7. Prepare 2 green onions, cut 1/2 cm
  8. Make ready 500 gr boneless chicken thighs/breast, diced, pat dry with paper towels
  9. Take For the chicken marinade:
  10. Prepare 1 tsp sesame oil
  11. Prepare 1 Tbsp cornstarch
  12. Make ready 2 tsp soy sauce
  13. Take For the Kung Pao sauce:
  14. Make ready 1/2 tsp Chinese Shaoxing rice wine (optional)
  15. Get 1 Tbsp soy sauce
  16. Prepare 1 Tbsp dark soy sauce
  17. Take 1/2 tsp Chinese black vinegar
  18. Prepare 1 tsp sugar
  19. Prepare 2 Tbsp water

Kung pao chicken is Chinese-style stir-fried chicken cubes with dried chili peppers. It's a Sichuanese staple that was brought over to America and reinvented for local flavors and tastes. Kung Pao Chicken is from the Sichuan province in China. 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.

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 from the Sichuan province in China. 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. This is a spicy chicken dish with a mouthwatering Kung Pao Sauce. It is popular at Chinese takeouts or restaurants here in the United States. In a glass dish or bowl, combine half of the sake mixture with the chicken pieces and toss to coat.

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