Spiced Kung Pao Chicken Food

KUNG PAO CHICKEN

Steps:

• To Make Marinade: Combine 1 tablespoon wine, 1 tablespoon soy sauce, 1 tablespoon oil and 1 tablespoon cornstarch/water mixture and mix together. Place chicken pieces in a glass dish or bowl and add marinade. Toss to coat. Cover dish and place in refrigerator for about 30 minutes.
• To Make Sauce: In a small bowl combine 1 tablespoon wine, 1 tablespoon soy sauce, 1 tablespoon oil, 1 tablespoon cornstarch/water mixture, chili paste, vinegar and sugar. Mix together and add green onion, garlic, water chestnuts and peanuts. In a medium skillet, heat sauce slowly until aromatic.
• Meanwhile, remove chicken from marinade and saute in a large skillet until meat is white and juices run clear. When sauce is aromatic, add sauteed chicken to it and let simmer together until sauce thickens.

KUNG PAO SAUCE

Steps:

• Firstly, Add 1 and 1/2 tablespoons cooking wine, 1 teaspoon light soy sauce, 1/8 teaspoon dark soy sauce, 1/2 teaspoon Chinese black vinegar, 1/2 teaspoon white pepper, 1/8 teaspoon monosodium glutamate, 1 teaspoon sugar, 1/2 tablespoon corn starch.Stir it and save for later.
• For a healthier choice, we'll use chicken breast to do this recipe. It needs about 250g chicken breast for the recipe. Cutting the chicken breasts to little bits of chicken.
• Add 1/8 teaspoon salt, 1/8 tablespoon white pepper, 2 teaspoons cooking wine, 1/4 teaspoon dark soy sauce.Add 1 teaspoon corn starch, 1/2 tablespoon corn oil which can stop them from sticking together.Then mix up them with the chicken and make the chicken absorb the ingredients' flavour.
• Add 2 tablespoons corn oil into the pan.Pour 30g peanuts into the pan. Cooking it at low heat. Keep stirring it until you have listened to the broken sound from the peanuts. If most of the peanuts have broken that means the peanuts cooked enough.Drain oil and save for later.
• 10g ginger, finely minced and save for later.1 small or medium garlic clove, finely minced and save for later.1 bunch green onion, finely minced and save for later.5g dry red pepper, finely minced and save for later.Some red sichuan peppercorns, put in the bowl and save for later.
• Add 200ml (about 20 tablespoons) corn oil into the pan. Pour 2 tablespoons oil which from cooked the chicken before. Heat the pan to hot enough, add dry red peppers, green prickleyash to cook. The dry red peppers must be cooked at least brown. After a few times stir-fry, add minced ginger and minced garlic before. Stir in the ingredients that become to have a great smell, add the chicken. Use the high temperature to fry them a few times to make the chicken absorb the flavour of pepper, ginger, garlic.Then add the sauce we had mixed up before, continue to stir-fry to ensure that they are mix enough. Adding crispy peanuts and minced green onion, 1/2 teaspoon oil.

KUNG PAO CHICKEN

Steps:

• Using a speed-peeler, peel the cucumber and carrot (including the skin), until you have a pile of long, thin ribbons and place in a bowl.
• Pick and roughly chop most of the coriander leaves, discarding the stalks. Place it all into the bowl with the soy and rice wine vinegar. Toss well and set aside.
• Toast the Szechuan peppercorns in a dry frying pan until lightly golden. Transfer to a pestle and mortar, grind to a fine powder, then sieve into a large bowl, discarding any large, tough bits.
• Add 2 tablespoons of cornflour and stir to combine. Chop the chicken into bite-sized chunks, then toss in the cornflour mixture to coat.
• Pour 2cm of oil into a large non-stick frying pan over a medium heat, add the chicken and fry for 7 to 8 minutes, or until golden and cooked through.
• Meanwhile, peel and finely slice the garlic and ginger, then trim and finely slice the spring onions.
• Using a slotted spoon, remove the chicken to a double layer of kitchen paper to drain. Carefully remove and discard most of the oil, leaving about 2 tablespoons in the pan, then return to a medium heat.
• Add the garlic and ginger and fry for 2 minutes, or until lightly golden, then stir in the spring onions and whole chillies and fry for 1 further minute.
• Meanwhile, combine ½ tablespoon of cornflour and 2 tablespoons of water. Mix in the soy, vinegar and honey, then pour the mixture into the pan. Bring to the boil and simmer for a few minutes, or until slightly thickened.
• Lightly bash and add the peanuts, stir in the chicken, then toss well until warmed through. Snip the cress over the ribbon salad, scatter the reserved coriander leaves over the chicken, then serve.

KUNG PAO CHICKEN

Steps:

• Combine chicken and cornstarch in small bowl.
• Toss to coat.
• Heat oil in large non-stick skillet or wok on medium heat.
• Add chicken.
• Stir fry 5- 7 minutes or until no longer pink in center.
• Remove from heat.
• Add onions, garlic, red pepper and ginger to skillet.
• Stir fry 15 seconds.
• Remove from heat.
• Combine vinegar, soy sauce and sugar in small bowl.
• Stir well.
• Add to skillet.
• Return chicken to skillet.
• Stir until chicken is well coated.
• Stir in nuts.
• Heat thoroughly, stirring occasionally.
• Serve over hot rice.

KUNG PAO CHICKEN

Steps:

• Prepare a small bowl; add all the seasonings for the sauce together.
• If you use chicken thigh: remove the bones by cutting a break on the top and then push the meat off with the help of a sharp knife.
• Cut the meat into long strips and further into one bite size cubes. Transfer the chicken to a large bowl and marinating with salt, soy sauce, water, cooking wine and cornstarch.
• Heat up oil in wok until hot, pour in cold oil and then heat until warm. Place the chicken cubes in and let them stay for 3-5 seconds until the starch begins gelatinization. Gently fry until all of the chicken cubes begin to change color.
• Transfer the chicken cubes to the edges of the wok and empty the center. Add Sichuan peppercorn and dried chili pepper, fry until aromatic. Place in garlic, ginger and half of the scallion sections. Quickly fry to mix well.
• Add the remaining onion sections and pour the sauce in (pre-stir the sauce just before using). At last mix in fried peanuts. Transfer out immediately as long as everything is well combined.

KUNG PAO CHICKEN

Steps:

• Marinade: In a non-reactive bowl, prepare the marinade. Combine the rice wine, peanut oil, soy sauce, salt and cornstarch. Stir in the chicken pieces and refrigerate for 20 to 30 minutes.
• Sauce: In a small bowl, combine the ingredients for the sauce. Set aside.
• Over high heat, in a wok, bring the peanut oil to almost smoking temperature. Stir-fry the chilies, ginger, garlic and white part of the green onions for 30 to 40 seconds, or until the chilies turn dark. Add the chicken and stir-fry for 1 to 2 minutes, until golden in color.
• Add the sauce and bring to a boil. Add the peanuts. Thicken with the slurry and continue to cook until glossy. Transfer to a serving plate and garnish with julienne green onions.

SPICED KUNG PAO CHICKEN

Steps:

• Combine chicken, salt, egg white, and cornstarch. Mix well by hand. Set aside.
• In small bowl, blend sauce ingredients. Set aside.
• Heat oil to 350 in a wok. Deep fry chicken until it seperates and is almost cooked.
• Remove by draining through strainer into another pot.
• Reheat same oil.
• Deep fry peanutsover moderate heat until golden brown.
• Remove by draining through strainer.
• Reheat 2 tbs. oil in wok til smoking hot.
• Stir-fry red chili peppers til they are dark red.
• Lower heat.
• Add scallions and garlic.Stir-fry 30 seconds.
• Pour in chicken. Stir-fry on high for 1 minute.
• Add sauce.
• Stir-fry until heated and glazed thouroughly.
• Add peanuts.