General Tso Chicken

Submitted by toadman2

"this is definately one of the most popular chinese dishes"

 

• Ready In: 24mins
• Ingredients: 11
• Serves: 8

ingredients

• 2 lbs chicken
• 1⁄4 cup hot Chinese chili paste
• 1⁄4 cup Thai sweet chili sauce
• 1⁄4 cup crushed red pepper flakes
• 1⁄4 cup sherry wine or 1/4 cup rice wine
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce
• 2 garlic cloves
• 1⁄4 cup sugar
• 2 chili peppers, pods
• 2 lbs chicken
• 1⁄4 cup peanut oil

directions

1. Combine chili paste, crushed red pepper, garlic, thai chili sauce, soy sauce, sherry, sugar and reduce into a sauce.
2. Saute chili pods in peanut oil, cook chicken in chili oil mixture.
3. Add sauce and simmer chicken pieces in sauce until done, serve.

Reviews

[annajam62_8801634]

I would have given this recipe four stars if not for the call for 1/4 cup red pepper flakes. I made the sauce following directions exactly, but I had second thoughts about putting in that much red pepper flakes, so I tasted the sauce before pouring over chicken, and I'm glad I did. It tasted really good, but if I had served it like that, the amount of pepper flakes may have killed someone. I put the sauce through a sieve, which got rid of all but about a tablespoon of the flakes. That minor adjustment made all the difference in the world. The dish was really delicious. Unless you have an asbestos mouth (and stomach), I highly recommend cutting the red pepper flakes to about a tablespoon.