Chinese: General Tsao's Chicken 1

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Title: CHINESE: GENERAL TSAO'S CHICKEN 1
Categories: Main dish, Meats, Chinese, Ethnic, Poultry
Yield: 6 servings

1 lb Boneless chicken breasts cut
-into 1 in pieces
3 tb Soy suace
3 tb Cornstarch
1 Egg white beaten until
-frothy
1 c Veg. oil
3 Hot dried chili peppers,
-broken in half
2 Cloves garlic finely chopped
1 Piece ginger root (1 in)
-peeled and finely chopped
1 tb White wine vinegar
1 tb White wine
1 ts Cornstarch
1 ts Sesame oil
1/2 ts Salt
1 ts Brown sugar

Wow, with over a dozen Chinese or Oriental cookbooks,
I had a hard time finding this recipe! It is probably
called something else (like spicy fried chicken) and I
really do have a dozen recipes. :) This one is from
_Elegant_ Entertaining_Cookbook_ by Myra Sable of
Sable and Rosenfeld, Bantam books.

General Tsao was a real person, general and poet who
lived in China 155-220 AD.

rn e in the frig for 1 hour.

Heat the oil in a wok. Deep fry the chicken, a few
pieces at a time, about 1 minute or until golden
brown. Remove and drain on paper towels. Pour all but
2 TB of the oil out of the wok.

To the oil in the wok, add the chili peppers, garlic
and ginger, stir-fry 2 minutes.

In a small bowl, combine the remaining soy sauce,
vinegar, white wine and 1 tea cornstarch, mix until
smooth. Stir in sugar, sesame oil and salt. Pour into
wok, cook, stirring for 2 minutes until thickened.

Return chicken pieces to wok, mix well and serve.

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