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Takeout Style Kung Pao Chicken 

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Yield

2-3

prep

Prep Time

20 minutes

cook

Cook Time

10 minutes

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Total Time

30 minutes

kikkoman products used:

ingredients

1 pound boneless skinless chicken thighs, cubed
2 + 1½ tablespoons Kikkoman® Soy Sauce, divided
1 + 1 tablespoons Shaoxing wine, divided
1 + ½ tablespoons corn starch, divided
½ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon white pepper
1 bundle green onion, chopped
2 tablespoons ginger, chopped
6 large garlic cloves, quartered
1 tablespoon Chinese black vinegar
1 tablespoon sugar
2 +1 tablespoons avocado oil, divided
8 dried chili peppers
1 teaspoon Szechuan peppercorns (optional)
¼ cup peanuts

directions

  1. Cut chicken into 1/2-inch pieces and add to a mixing bowl. To the bowl, add 2 tablespoons of soy sauce, 1 tablespoon Shaoxing wine, 1 tablespoon corn starch, salt, and pepper. Mix and let chicken marinate for at least 15 minutes.
  2. Cut the whites of the green onion into ½-inch pieces, peel and cut ginger into ½-inch pieces, and cut garlic cloves into quarters.
  3. In a small mixing bowl add 1½ tablespoon soy sauce, Chinese black vinegar, 1 tablespoon Shaoxing wine, sugar, ½ tablespoon corn starch, and mix.
  4. On high heat in a wok or deep frying pan add 2 tablespoon avocado oil. Once pan is ripping hot add chicken and cook on first side for 2-3 minutes. Then flip and stir fry for 60 seconds. Remove chicken once it is cooked 90% of the way.
  5. Add 1 tablespoon avocado oil into pan and toss in dried chilies and peppercorns. Stir fry for 30-45 seconds, then add garlic and ginger and continue to stir fry until aromatic.
  6. Add in peanuts and whites of green onion, stir fry until peanuts develop a little color and then add back in the chicken and your sauce. Stir fry until sauce is thick.
  7. Add your Kung Pao chicken to a bowl and top with thinly sliced green onion.

Recipe created in partnership with Jordan at @farnumgrindtime​.

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