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Kung Pao Chicken Recipe

 ·  ☕ 3 min read  ·  ✍️ Hilda Graves

Kung Pao Chicken
Kung Pao Chicken

Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, kung pao chicken. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Kung Pao Chicken is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Kung Pao Chicken is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have kung pao chicken using 26 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Kung Pao Chicken:
  1. Make ready Prep time 20 mints
  2. Prepare Cooking time 10 mints
  3. Prepare Total time 30 mints
  4. Make ready Chicken Marinade:
  5. Get 1 1/2 kg boneless chicken cut into cubes
  6. Get 2 tbsp soy sauce
  7. Get 2 tsp sesame oil
  8. Make ready 1 tsp corn flour
  9. Prepare 1 tsp black pepper
  10. Prepare Gravy:
  11. Get 3 tsp cornflour
  12. Make ready 5 tbsp light soy sauce
  13. Make ready 1 tbsp dark soy sauce
  14. Get 5 tbsp sesame oil
  15. Take 1 tsp black pepper
  16. Get 2 tbsp sriracha sauce
  17. Make ready 3 tbsp water
  18. Take 3 tbsp honey
  19. Prepare 1 medium onion finely chopped
  20. Take 1 tbsp minced garlic
  21. Prepare 1 tbsp minced ginger
  22. Make ready 6 dried red chilies cut into halves and seeds removed
  23. Make ready 1 red capsicum cut into 1" cubes
  24. Make ready 1 green capsicum cut into 1" cubes
  25. Make ready 3 tbsp fried peanuts for garnish
  26. Make ready 1 tbsp finely chopped green onions for garnish
Instructions to make Kung Pao Chicken:
  1. Measure and prepare all ingredients. Marinate the chicken and keep aside or refrigerate until further use.
  2. Make cornflour slurry and keep aside too. Fry peanuts in oil on a low flame till golden.
  3. In a separate bowl mix together water, light soy sauce, vinegar, honey, sesame oil, sriracha, dark soy sauce and leave aside.
  4. Using the same oil in which peanuts were fried, heat in a pan over medium flame, cook the marinated chicken in a single layer, as soon as it changes colour, dish out and keep aside.
  5. Again, in the same oil saute onions till translucent, add ginger garlic and saute till fragrant. Now add the red chilies, chicken, red and green capsicums and the sauce mix and stir well.
  6. Lastly add the cornflour slurry, mix well and turn off the flame. You do not want the veggies to discolour or soften. Dish out and garnish with fried peanuts and spring onions. Serve with rice of your choice. Enjoy!
  7. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

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