General Tso's Chicken [REAL Chinese American DUDE Shows How to Make It] | Wally Cooks Everything
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- Опубліковано 27 чер 2024
- The all important key to a tasty General Tso's Chicken is the SAUCE recipe! I'll show you a really tasty way to make General Tso's including how to make your chicken extra crispy. Like many Chinese takeaway dishes, General Tso's is easy to make and better than Chinese takeout.
Everyone knows General Tso's Chicken even though he (or she) is not a real person. My best guess is this famous Chinese takeout fast food was invented to go head to head with Colonel Sanders, of KFC fame, who's a real person though the military rank is fake.
I've looked around and done some research on the best recipe I could find, coupled with my experience eating General Tso's growing up in NYC.
Here's what I came up with!
Ingredients:
Serves 2 to 3
250 grams chicken thigh with skin on
2 teaspoons light soy sauce
2 tablespoons Chinese cooking wine (can substitute with sherry)
2 teaspoons pure sesame oil
2 dash ground white pepper
1 egg yolk
*1 cup all purpose flour
*1 cup cornflour (a.k.a. cornstarch)
*2 teaspoon salt
*½ cup flour and ½ cup cornflour will be fine also. I'm in the school of more is better. Remember to use 1 teaspoon salt if using half flour and cornflour.
Combine chicken thighs with light soy sauce, cooking wine, sesame oil, white pepper and egg yolk. Mix with hand for a few minutes.
Add all purpose flour and cornflour into a shallow pan. Add a few chicken pieces at a time and coat each piece. Each piece should feel dry.
This is optional you might want to put the coated chicken on a sieve to shake off excess flour. Otherwise just use your hands to shake off as best as you can.
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General Tso's Chicken Sauce:
2 tablespoons sugar
1/4 cup honey
3 tablespoons rice wine vinegar (can substitute with white vinegar)
2 tablespoons Chinese cooking wine (can substitute with sherry)
1 tablespoon oyster sauce
2 tablespoon light soy sauce
1 tablespoon dark soy sauce
Add all the above ingredients in a cup or bowl, stir and mix well.
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Cornflour slurry:
1 tablespoon cornflour
3 tablespoon water
Mix these two ingredients well in a small bowl.
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Aromatics:
5 dried chili
4 cloves garlic roughly chopped
1 inch fresh ginger (for grating into pan)
1 green scallion roughly chopped
Sesame seeds (optional)
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Cooking Directions:
Fill a pan or wok with enough oil to cover the chicken pieces for frying. Heat oil to 375°F (191°C).
Then fry chicken until golden in color. Should take about 4 to 5 minutes depending on the amount of chicken you place inside pan or wok.
When all pieces are fried, heat the oil back up to 375°F (191°C) for a second fry. This will ensure your chicken is extra crispy.
Fry until the chicken becomes one shade darker, at least a few minutes. Then remove chicken and place on a wire rack or plate lined with paper towel.
Time to make the sauce.
First add a tablespoon of oil to a pan on medium low heat. Add garlic and dried chili. Grate in the fresh ginger. Continue cooking for a few minutes. Turn the heat up to medium high heat and pour in General Tso's sauce mixture. Continue stirring and the liquid should bubble and reduce slightly. Don't let it reduce too much.
Lower the heat if you see it reduce too fast.
Add a tablespoon of the cornflour slurry a few at a time until you see the sauce become thick and sticky. Then throw in the fried chicken and get all the pieces nice and coated. It may look like there's not a lot of sauce but that's because it's very sticky. Keep mixing, it'll get coated.
When all the chicken is covered lower the heat and throw in the scallions and continue mixing for 30 seconds.
Switch off the fire and get the rice ready! It's time to eat!
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A favorite to eat in our household. This looks delicious. Thank you for sharing with us.
thank you Wally . I think your a great cook! thank you so much for the recipe!
It's a great food from its appearance. I will surely try this in my kitchen to know how great tasting this is. Thank you so much for sharing this.
I love your videos and techniques 🎉 thank you I learn so much and food taste DELICIOUS
Looks tasty!
Love this dish... it wasn’t popular at all in SoCal when I grew up during 80s-90s (it’s more orange chicken here... which I like too). But, it’s finally getting more popular here nowadays at least.
Hi new subscriber from the U.S. Thank you so much for putting the ingredients & the measurements in the subtitles & for putting the ingredients and measurements in the description box it is really helpful 💛
Glad to help out ✌️
Love you brother, super, simple, n humble. Il try
Hi from "cold" Canada! My local Chinese food restaurant closed due to the pandemic! Therefore, I have to cook my own now! Thanks for sharing your recipes! 😋
You’re welcome Louise, have fun cooking 🙏🏻
Wally! Many thanks for this quick & life-saving dinner. It's more than worth it. Wised I lived next door!❤😂
My friend!!! Thank you so much!! My wife and I just finished this and it was bliss on a plate. Your recipes get right to the love👍
Glad you like it 😃 And thank you very much for coming back to comment 🙏
Right to the love!❤ That's what matters!😂❤
Love it thanks for sharing
Thanks for posting, I will try it next week-end and will let you know, I'm sure it's going to be delicious.
Hope you enjoy
I enjoyed your video! Good job!
Thanks Louise! 😃
Yummy thankyou so much
Yourm're genius! If my husband could cook like you, I would die for him!
Hi Wally! great recipe
Thank you so much Jeanine 🙏❤️
Looks yummmmm
Looks great!
Thank you Nick 👍
Very yummy ❤👏👏👏
Ummm so so so yummy 😋
Looks good 🇨🇦
Thank you Diane from 🇨🇦😃
I love all your recipes. I will make this for Father’s Day this Sunday. I love Cantonese cooking which is not available in San Diego, like it is on the east coast. 😋
Hello 😊 Man I can’t believe there’s no Cantonese food in San Diego, so hard to believe, such an amazing diverse city 🙏
@@WallyCooksEverything Mostly Panda Express and Schezwan Mandarin. We lived in Atlanta for 8 years and the Cantonese was so delicious. Here I have to cook it myself with your recipes, and that’s what I am doing. So thank you.
@@richardmergler3646 I’m guessing there once were at least one Cantonese style restaurant in SD. And perhaps the owners since retired. Usually they don’t want their offspring to work restaurant business. There’s a running joke with some truth to this Asian parents want their children to be doctors, lawyers or accountants 😆😆 We call it fulfilling the Asian prophecy.
So a lot of Cantonese restaurants have closed on East coast too.
Thank you for watching my videos Richard 🙏 Take care!
I made this just now. So worth it. I added some crush red pepper.
Can't go wrong with crushed red pepper Lauren 😀
Ummm yummy!
Hi! This looks amazing! I'm definitely going to try this.
I just have to find an Asian market to get some of these ingredients lol.
I have one question though, what kind of oil did you fry the chicken in?
Hello 😃 I used vegetable oil but you can I use anything you want. As long as it is an oil that has no flavor should be fine 👍
@@WallyCooksEverything Awesome! Thank you so much! Keep up the amazing videos! I really really appreciate them!
Making it now!
Enjoy! And thank you for watching! 😊
Chicken nugget with spicyand sour sauce.
Dang bro . Why you sweating so much? Is the cops after you? You running from the law and trying to teach us how to cook at the same time? LOL
Lol, what can I say, it was a really hot day 😆
It looked bad , im sure it was kindly tasty but it looked dark and bad not like a restaurant
You d I not have to make it as dark if you don't like i; it's a different culture that is being brought to the table - to each one his own