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General Tso’s Chicken
General Tso’s Chicken includes soy sauce – light or all-purpose, hoisin sauce, rice vinegar. Total time: 25 minutes. Serves 4.
Ingredients
Sauce/Chicken Marinade8
3 tbsp soy sauce – light or all-purpose, NOT dark soy, Note 1
1 tbsp hoisin sauce
1 tbsp rice vinegar, sub white wine vinegar
2 tsp chilli paste, Sambal Oelak is great, any
1 tsp sesame oil, Note 6, toasted preferably
3 tbsp brown sugar
1 tbsp cornflour/cornstarch
¾ cup chicken stock/broth, low sodium
Chicken5
1.4 lb chicken thighs, breast / tenderloin – Note 2, boneless skinless, cut into 2.5cm / 1" pieces
1 tsp ginger, finely grated
1 tsp garlic, finely grated
1 cup cornflour/cornstarch, Note 5
1 - 4 cups oil, for frying, peanut, vegetable or canola; Note 4
Stir Fry Sauce4
2 tbsp oil, peanut, vegetable or canola
2 tsp ginger, finely chopped, Note 3
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped, Note 3
½ tsp red chilli flakes, red pepper flakes
Garnishes (at least 1 recommended)2
Finely sliced green onion
Sesame seeds
