General Tso's Chicken is not really a Chinese dish, but actually an American creation. It is a sweet deep fried chicken dish served in American Chinese restaurants.
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- Rinse the chicken breast and pat dry with kitchen paper. Cut into the inch dices and place them in a bowl. Add in salt, egg and 1 tablespoon of cornstarch. Stir until well mixed and set aside for 20 minutes. Mix the ingredients for the sauce in a small bowl and save for the later use.
- Fill a large skillet with enough oil and heat until very hot. Coat the chicken dices with cornstarch and deep-fry until golden and crispy. Drain on paper towels.
- Leave a small amount of oil in the same skillet and heat until hot. Stir in garlic, chillies and spring onion chunks. Stir-fry briefly. Return the chicken, bell peppers to the skillet and pour the prepared sauce over. Stir until all well combined. Remove and serve with steamed rice.
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It looks awesome! I would love to have this for my lunch right now!
Chinese or no, it used to be one of my favorite take-out choices! I can eat your version though - no flour! Saving this to make soon.
I like this dish too with thse spicy dried chillies. Very appetising! Wish I can have some right now.
This looks really yummy! I like spicy general Tao's chicken. Your look so good with big chunk of dried red chilies!
Cant take my eyes from the click, fantastic dish..
This is the second time I've seen this recipe tonight! I really want to try this!
Looks good....amazing how cuisines round the world reshape to fit taste buds. We now have American-Chinese food, American -Japanese food, Dutch-Indonesian....and the list goes on!
Looks delicious! I love this American 'Chinese' dish.
Wow....I can imagine the heat and kick from this dish with all those dried chilies. Very delicious. I love it. Anyone who loves spicy food will surely like this dish....straight to cloud 9!
oh, yes I love this American--Chinese dish :D Thanks for this recipe Angie !
I LOVE General Tso's chicken! This one looks perfect, spicy and sweet at the same time. Yummy! I'll have to make this one night. Thank you.
oh I am starving looking at this looks amazing
Angie this looks incredible! I remember ordering this for chinese takeout and now I have a recipe to make it myself! Thanks!
good snapshots
This is one of my absolute favorite American/Chinese dishes and it looks amazing! I'm coming over, when are you making it next? ;)
angie why do you live so far away - this looks great!
You version looks more like the Taiwanese version which is less sweet without the gluggy sauce, my prefered version! Looks very tasty!
WOW!!!! I can't take my eyes off it! It looks amazingly delicious!
This is one of my favorites, Angie! This looks so much better than take-out. I'm so happy to have the recipe!
Now this is something I definitely could go for right about now. Yummy!
looks yumm,
This is really a great dish to go with rice, regardless of its story behind.
This looks wonderful and your photos are beautiful! I love this spicy dish-thanks!
it looks soooooooo gooddd!!!! i must bookmark! tq Angie.:)
This is simple to prepare and yummy !
Delicious ! I love cooking with dried chillies and this dish is quite similar to 宫保鸡丁
I am drooling....
Ooo..another yummilious recipe! Love this flavour.. a little sweet & spicy. HHmm..mm...
It looks so good with a hot plate of rice.
BTW, the ingredients seem like a Kung Pao chicken dish to me, besides frying the chicken in egg batter.
Thank YOU ALL for the replies and supports! :-))
@wendyywy: Szechuan Kung Pao chicken is prepared not only chillies, but also with Szechuan peppercorns, which creates a tingly numbness in the mouth, and General Tso's chicken tastes hot with pleasant sweetness.
Angie, I'm feeling very hungry right now, it's only 5.17pm. Looks like I've got to prepare dinner early!
I thought this dish was created in Hong Kong during the British colony era........
My husband loves this dish....
I commented on your curry fish with peas. That comment is supposed to be for this post. :) That's why I was wondering why the dish looks different. Anyway, the dish is incredible. I am missing the taste of those dried chilies in stir fry.
we have the same posts!!!! how exciting!
wow, delicious! thx for the recipe! Btw, the 'sweet award' is for you!
This chicken i love it. I have made them once but this recipe is much more looking delicous. I am sure gonna try this for my next chinese theme dinner party.
LOL! Well-said! Agreed! I first heard of this when I was in the States! Anyhow, yours looks like the real deal! =)
I absolutely love Generato Tsao's Chicken. Thanks for this recipe!
Beautiful recipe. The chicken looks really succulent :)
*kisses* HH
Beautiful, I love your photo. I actually didn't like Chinese until I found out all I had eaten before was American Chinese. Now I am in love with real Chinese. We have 1 restaurant here among probably hundreds of American Chinese takeout restaurants that we enjoy, and I make these yummy Chinese American dishes at home.
That is interesting!That was one of my husband favorite dishes in Chinese restaurants.He is a vegetarian now. That looks delicious.
One of my most favorite meals at our local restaurant. I LOVE this. And now to make it at home, I can't wait to to try this!! Thank you soooo much!
Yum yum yum this looks fantastic! I'm definitely bookmarking this to try soon.
This dish is awesome, looks like Kung Pao Chicken with sweet and hot taste. Very tempting!
This is really American, because I haven't seen it in Asia. It looks good!
I definitely can eat the whole plate of this dish with warm rice! *drools*
I am drooling...lovely click dear...now i know what I am cooking for tomorrow's dinner..Thanks for sharing the recipe.
This looks delicious! I love General Tso's Chicken
I love this chicken dish. So flavourful and delicious.
My husband and I LOVE general tsao and I'm always looking for a good recipe. This not only looks delicious, but pretty simple to make too!
your G Tso's chicken really look delicious especially the red pepper!! I like your almost dry version!!
toujours des plats aussi délicieux et savoureux
ps: j'ai publié ta recette boulettes syriennes sur mon blog
merci pour cette jolie recette
bonne journée
WOW Angie! You're really a good cook ;D This looks fabulous.
Angie
You always pick good recipes! This one is no exception.
The dish looks so colourful and full of flavour. Funny name, never heard of it before.
I'm drooling!! Nice work!
I LOVE General Tso's chicken. G-Tso's Tofu too!
Naughty but sooooo good. Yours looks delicious Angie!
I do not know General Tso's chicken is not a real Chinese dish. I like your big dry chilies there. It's nice to learn another chicken dish.
Exactly!! I was really amused when I was in US and found that every Chinese restaurant has this General Tso's chicken on their menu! I don't know how it got there but it was one of the dishes I liked to order when I was eating in the Chinese restaurants there...
Angie, this looks so yummy! I have not tried this recipe yet ... usually we just order kung pao chicken. But this looks less spicy.
This is my all time fav. dish.
You make it look so simple and delishes.
Love it!
thanks for this..tried it last night and it was an absolute success...I added some cashew nuts and some "lap cheong" to the dish as well :)
This looks like the perfect weekend dinner. We are trying to eat in a lot more often. Saves money and our health! Can't wait to try it.
Yum Angie! This looks wonderful and congrats on having it included as a feature on the Foodista page today.
amazingon having it included as a feature on the Foodista page today.
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