Recipe: Kung Pao Chicken

I love Kung Pao Chicken ♥
Kung pao Chicken is a Chinese dish that tastes amazing 🙂 It is a very hot dish – so you should love hot food, to love this.

Recipe

Yield: 4 persons

Ingredients:

• 6 chicken breast
• 6 cloves of garlic
• Ginger
• 8 scallions
• 1 ½ tsp sichuan pepper (Optional)
• 15 dried chilies
• Unsalted peanuts or cashew nuts
• Sesame oil

Marinade:

• 4 tsp soy sauce
• 4 tsp Chinese rice wine  (Optional)
• 4 tsp corn starch

Sauce

• 4 tsp soy sauce
• 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
• 2 tsp sesame oil
• 2 tbsp water
• 4 tsp sugar
• 3 tbsp hoisinsauce

How to make it:

• Mix all the ingredients or the marinade
• Mix all of the ingredients for the sauce
• Dice the chicken and mix it with the marinade – let ir rest for aprox. 15 minutes
• Chop ginger & garlic
• Slice your scallions and cut the  chillies in halfes (Possibly take out the chili seeds)
• heat up a deep pan or a wok
• Add some oil. When the oil is hot, add sichuan peppers & dried chili
• Fry shortly and add the chicken
• Fry for 2 minutes and add garlic & ginger
• Fry it all until the chicken is well done and has gotten colour
• Add the slices scallions and fry for some seconds more
• Then add the sauce and mix it all well together over the heat
• Divide into portions and add chpped nuts
• Serve with rice