Easiest Way to Make Tasty Kung Pao Chicken

Kung Pao Chicken. Kung Pao Chicken is a highly addictive stir-fried chicken with the perfect combination of salty, sweet and spicy flavour! Make Kung Pao Chicken better than Chinese take out right at home! Kung Pao Chicken (宫保鸡丁) in Chinese is a stir-fried dish with chicken cubes, dried chili pepper and deep-fried peanuts.

When we lived in Beijing, I was actually surprised to see how popular Kung Pao Chicken was. Kung Pao Chicken is from the Sichuan province in China. The Chinese name is 宫保鸡丁 (gong bao ji ding) but some restaurants spell it as Gong Bao Chicken or Kung Po Chicken. You can cook Kung Pao Chicken using 19 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Kung Pao Chicken

1. You need 500 grams of Chicken thigh fillet, diced.
2. It's 1 tbsp of Soy sauce.
3. You need 1 tbsp of Sao xing wine/Chinese rice wine.
4. Prepare 1 tsp of Corn starch.
5. It's of Cooking Sauce:.
6. Prepare 1 tbsp of Light soy sauce.
7. It's 1 tbsp of Dark soy sauce.
8. It's 1 tbsp of Sesame oil.
9. You need 1 tsp of Hoisin sauce.
10. Prepare 1 tsp of Sugar.
11. It's 1 tsp of Corn starch.
12. It's 2 cm of Ginger, grated.
13. It's 2 cloves of Garlic, chopped.
14. You need 1/2 cup of Roasted cashews.
15. Prepare 2 pcs of Shallots, thin sliced.
16. You need 1 pcs of Red capsicum, remove seed and diced.
17. It's 5 pcs of Dried Chilli, chopped.
18. You need 2 tbsp of Olive oil.
19. It's of Salt.

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Kung Pao Chicken instructions

1. Marinade chicken with soy sauce, rice wine and corn starch and keep it in the fridge for an hour..
2. Mix light and dark soy sauce, sesame oil, hoisin sauce, sugar, ginger and corn starch in a bowl.
3. Heat 1 tbsp of oil into non sticky pan and stir fry the chicken until brown, put a side..
4. Heat the remaining oil into the pan and stir fry the garlic and dried chilli until fragrance. Add the capsicum and stir for a minute. Add sring onion and also the chicken back into the work. Add mixed sauce and cashews then stir for 2 minutes. Add a little bit of salt as optional..
5. Remove from the heat and serve it with hot steam rice. Put coriander leaves on the top as a garnish..

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