Chinese
Kung Pao Chicken
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Cut the chicken into bite-size cubes and toss with 1 tbsp cornstarch and 1 tbsp soy sauce.
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Stir the remaining soy sauce, rice vinegar, sugar, and remaining cornstarch with 1/4 cup water to make the sauce.
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Heat the neutral oil in a wok over high heat and stir-fry the chicken until browned and cooked through, about 6 minutes, then push to one side.
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Add the dried chilies, garlic, and ginger and stir until fragrant, about 30 seconds.
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Pour in the sauce and toss until it thickens and coats the chicken, about 1 minute.
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Stir in the peanuts, scallions, and sesame oil and serve hot 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 Kung Pao 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. Kung Pao Chicken carries peanuts, gluten, soy, and sesame. It is free of the remaining 6 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | Yes | Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee) |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee) |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| 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
- 380 kcal
- Protein
- 32 g
- Carbs
- 14 g
- Fat
- 22 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sugar
- 6 g
- Sodium
- 780 mg
- Saturated fat
- 4 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Kung Pao Chicken takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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