Kung Pao Chicken

Overview

How to cook Kung Pao Chicken at home

Tags

• hot dishes
• chicken breast
• chicken essence
• dried chili pepper
• onion, ginger and garlic
• peanuts
• pixian doubanjiang
• starch
• sugar
• vinegar
• zanthoxylum bungeanum
• black pepper

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Cut the chicken breast into cubes, peel the peanuts and soak them in water. Set aside.

   

2. 2 Add salt, cooking wine, chicken essence, black pepper, starch and a little water to the diced chicken.

   

3. 3 Take the seasoned chicken cubes and marinate them for ten minutes.

   

4. 4 Find an empty bowl to blend the gravy, add soy sauce and concentrated lemon juice at one time, or omit it if you don't have it. Mix sugar, vinegar, salt, chicken essence, pepper, starch and water thoroughly and set aside.

   

5. 5 Crispy peanuts.

   

6. 6 Slime the diced chicken in hot oil, remove and set aside.

   

7. 7 Heat the oil, add Sichuan peppercorns and stir-fry until fragrant. Add Pixian bean paste and stir-fry until red oil is produced. Add dried chili peppers and stir-fry until fragrant.

   

8. 8 Pour in the gravy and stir-fry for a few times, then add the diced chicken and stir-fry quickly.

   

9. 9 Add onion, ginger and garlic.

   

10. 10 Finally add fried peanuts.