Chinese Kung Pao Chicken
A salty, sweet and spicy Chinese stir-fry dish. Bite sized pieces of chicken are fried in a chili, garlic and ginger infused oil and then tossed in a sticky sauce with roasted peanuts.
Ingredients
- 500 g boneless chicken cut into 2 cm cubes
- 2-3 tablespoon olive oil
- 5-8 dried red chilies broken up in small pieces
- ½ - ¾ cup roasted unsalted peanuts
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- 1 teaspoon ginger minced
- 1 cup chicken stock
- ¼ cup cornflour (cornstarch) slurry 2 tablespoon cornflour (cornstarch) mixed with 4 tablespoon water
- 3-4 stalks spring onion green and white parts sliced separately
MARINADE
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon rice vinegar
- ½ teaspoon or to taste salt
- ½ teaspoon white pepper
- 1 tablespoon cornflour
SAUCE
- 1 teaspoon dark soy sauce
- 2 tablespoon regular soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon oyster sauce
- 1 tablespoon hoisin sauce
- 1 tablespoon rice vinegar
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon chili flakes
- 2 tablespoon sesame oil
Instructions
- Marinate chicken in all the mentioned ingredients for 30 minutes.
- Prepare the sauce and keep aside.
- Heat olive oil in a pan and on high heat add the red chilies. Stir fry for 30 seconds then add the ginger and garlic. Don’t brown just cook for a minute until they loose their rawness.
- Now throw in the chicken and fry.
- Add the white part of the spring onion along with the sauce. Stir fry for another 2 mins.
- Put in the peanuts and chicken stock. Wait till the stock starts bubbling and then thicken the sauce with the cornflour slurry. Add the slurry gradually and stop till you reach your desired thickness.
- Sprinkle the green onions and turn off heat.
- Serve with fried rice or noodles.
Notes
- If you do not have rice vinegar, you can use the regular white vinegar.
- Chicken can also be replaced with shrimp.
Nutrition
Serving: 1servingCalories: 484kcalCarbohydrates: 24gProtein: 36gFat: 28gSaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 82mgSodium: 1609mgPotassium: 921mgFiber: 3gSugar: 9gVitamin A: 813IUVitamin C: 85mgCalcium: 48mgIron: 2mg
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