Thirty minutes (or so) to WOW!


 Linda    22 Sep : 15:24

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BAKED General Tso

My favorite Chinese take out (or better yet, delivered!) dinner is either Kung Pao Chicken, or General Tso. Both are sweet and spicy, robust in flavor... and both are fried frown. I found a great recipe for Kung Pao a few years back at America's Test Kitchen (I use their recipe for Kung Pao Shrimp, just subbing chicken and cooking a little longer) – it is quite good, and while I keep a well stocked Asian pantry, I don't always have all of the ingredients at my dispoasal, so some pre-planning is required. But THIS version of General Tso has very few 'asian specific' ingredients, and I DO have those at all times! The other stuff – like flour, sugar, cayenne, garlic... I'm hoping you have most of those as well. Do all your measuring and prep work first - this really goes fast once you get started... Really simple technique used here – you dredge your boneless chicken in a flour that you've seasoned, and BAKE it (note: don't forget to flip halfway through)! While that's going, you mix your sauce ingredients (if you didn't take my prep advice), make a caramel syrup by boiling water and sugar together, and then combine. Exercise caution when combining the hot and cold stuff – hot sugar is nothing to mess with!!! But YUM – this really works cheesey
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Toss your baked chicken with the sauce and serve over rice. Best part?!!? It can be done in 30 - 40 MINUTES! Home delivery can take that long – and this is just as good, healthier, fresher, cheaper... So try some “take-out” at home wink


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