Make your own Chinese takeaway with this homemade General Tso Chicken recipe. A perfect combination of complex sweet, savory, spicy, and tangy sauce with crispy chicken bites for your snack time! This General Tso’s Chicken recipe is crispy bite-sized fried chicken in a sweet, sticky sauce featuring ginger, garlic, soy sauce, hoisin sauce, red chilies, and rice wine vinegar. It’s the perfect and of course much better takeout alternative, kid-friendly, and easy to make. Serve this over steamed rice or steamed broccoli!
Sauce 1. In a mixing bowl, combine all of the sauce ingredients, stir until there is no lump from the cornstarch. Set aside.
Chicken 1. In a pan, heat cooking oil over medium high heat. Toss and coat chicken into a cornflour until fully coated. Shake the chicken to remove excess cornflour.
2. Cook chicken until golden brown. Discard the oil leaving about one tbsp, then sautee garlic and ginger for 3 minutes then pour the sauce mixture in to a pan. 3. Bring to boil and stir occasionally until the sauce is thicken. Once the sauce thicken, add cooked chicken and stir until the chicken is coated. Transfer to a plate and garnish it with sesame seed and green onion. Best serve it with warm rice. Enjoy!