General tso's chicken #01
6 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | Chicken legs | |
| 1 | Egg | |
| 1 | cup | Cornstarch |
| 7 | cups | Oil |
| 1¼ | teaspoon | Salt |
| 1¼ | teaspoon | Pepper |
| 8 | Dried red peppers | |
| 3 | Green onions; chopped | |
| 2 | teaspoons | Minced garlic |
| 1 | teaspoon | Minced ginger |
| 1 | teaspoon | Sesame oil |
| ½ | teaspoon | Cornstarch |
| 1 | cup | Water |
| 1 | cup | Vinegar |
| 1 | cup | Soy sauce |
| ½ | cup | Hot oil |
Directions
SAUCE
Remove skin from chicken legs. Cut in 1-¼" pieces through the bone.
Combine egg, cornstarch, 1 cup oil, salt and pepper. Marinate chicken in this mixture 30 minutes. Heat remaining 6 cups oil to 375 degrees. Deep-fry chicken 5 minutes and drain. Heat a little of the oil and stir-fry red peppers, green onions and garlic with the chicken and Sauce 1 minute.
Serve. Sauce: Combine all ingredients.
UNCLE CHEN'S
S.W. 3RD, PORTLAND
WINE: SANCERRE
From the <Micro Cookbook Collection of Chinese Recipes>. Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, .