How to Make Perfect Kung Pao Chicken

Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, kung pao chicken. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Kung Pao Chicken is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Kung Pao Chicken is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have kung pao chicken using 26 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Kung Pao Chicken:

1. Make ready 400 g Chicken Thighs
2. Make ready 4-5 Cloves Garlic
3. Make ready 4 tsp Sichuan Peppercorns
4. Get 4 Birdseye Chilli
5. Make ready 4 dried large red chillies
6. Prepare 200 g Onion
7. Take 200 g mixed Bell peppers
8. Get 200 g Red Pepper
9. Prepare Handful cashew nuts
10. Make ready Handful ground nuts
11. Take 1 stalk scallion, cut into rings
12. Prepare The Marinade
13. Take 1 tsp sesame oil
14. Get 2 tsp sugar
15. Take 1 pinch Chinese 5 spice
16. Prepare 1 tsp ginger-garlic paste
17. Make ready 1 tbsp light soy sauce
18. Make ready Dash dark soy sauce
19. Take 1/2 tablespoon cornflour
20. Take Sauce
21. Take 1 tbsp light soy
22. Take 1 tbsp Sriracha sauce
23. Make ready 1 tbsp rice vinegar
24. Make ready 2 tsp sugar
25. Prepare 50 ml chicken stock
26. Prepare 1 tsp tomato paste

Steps to make Kung Pao Chicken:

1. Immediately, soak large red chilies, whole, in hot water for 10-15 minutes
2. While the chillies are soaking, finely slice the onion, bell peppers and red pepper, before then cutting your chicken thighs into cubes. Set the cubed chicken into a separate bowl, then finely dice the garlic and birdseye chillies and finally crush the Sichuanese peppercorns with either a pestle and mortar or rolling pin.
3. Next, marinate your chicken. Ensuring that the cornflour is introduced last, add all of the marinade ingredients to the cubed chicken and then massage well.
4. In a separate bowl, mix all of the sauce ingredients together.
5. At this point, your large red chilies should be soaked. Remove them from the hot water and place in a bowl with the chopped garlic, Birdseye chilies and Sichuan peppercorns to form your ‘Spice Mix’.
6. Heat 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil in a wok to high heat. Once smoking hot, add the onions and peppers and stir-fry for 2 minutes. Push the onions and peppers to one side of the wok and add an extra 1/2 a teaspoon of oil to center of wok.
7. Bring the oil to a high heat and add the chicken. Allow the chicken to sit and sear on one side, before then folding it through with the peppers and onions and stir-frying until the chicken is golden brown.
8. Now, add the spice mix, immediately followed by the sauce, and continue to cook for 2 minutes. Finally, add cashew nuts, scallions and serve - preferably with some steamed rice!
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