Chinese
General Tso's Chicken
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Cut the chicken into bite-size pieces, dip in the beaten egg, then dredge in 1/2 cup cornstarch.
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Heat the frying oil to 350F and fry the chicken until golden and crisp, about 6 minutes, then drain.
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Whisk the soy sauce, rice vinegar, sugar, hoisin, and remaining cornstarch with 1/3 cup water for the sauce.
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Heat the sesame oil in a clean skillet and stir-fry the garlic, ginger, and dried chilies until fragrant, about 1 minute.
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Pour in the sauce and simmer until thick and glossy, about 2 minutes.
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Toss the fried chicken in the sauce, scatter with scallions, and serve over rice.
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Serve it with
A Chinese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside General Tso's Chicken, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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Something to sip
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. General Tso's Chicken carries gluten, eggs, soy, and sesame. It is free of the remaining 6 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee) |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | Yes | Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee) |
| Soy | Yes | Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee) |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | Yes | Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee) |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 500 kcal
- Protein
- 28 g
- Carbs
- 42 g
- Fat
- 24 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 24 g
- Sodium
- 720 mg
- Saturated fat
- 3 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
General Tso's Chicken takes about 45 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a proper project. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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