Ground chicken General Tso's
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- ground chicken
- 2 tsp soy sauce
- 1 tsp roasted sesame seed oil
- 2 tsp Shaoxing cooking wine
- 1 tsp rice wine vinegar
- garlic powder
Mix the ground chicken with the soy sauce, sesame seed oil, Shaoxing wine, rice wine vinegar and garlic powder, and do not let it sit long or it turns bouncy.
Level 2: ground chicken chunks
- 1 tbsp dark soy sauce
- 2 tsp rice wine vinegar
- 1 tsp roasted sesame seed oil
- 1 tsp chili flake
- ½ cup chicken stock
- 3½ tbsp brown sugar
Pre-combine the dark soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, sesame seed oil, chili flake, chicken stock and brown sugar and whisk until the sugar is mostly dissolved.
- ⅓ cup cornstarch
- 2 tbsp all-purpose flour
- salt
- sesame seeds
Mix the cornstarch, flour, salt and sesame seeds for the dredge.
Press the chicken into General Tso's sized chunks, drop them in the dredge and toss.
- scallion whites
- ginger
- garlic
Leave about two teaspoons of fat and flour in the pan and add the scallion whites, grated ginger and crushed garlic; saute.
Whisk the sauce again, add it to the pan and let it thicken, loosening with the flour oil mixture if it stays thin.