General Tso's Chicken 左公雞

Last week,I decided to cook a America Chinese house speciality to hubby: General Tso Chicken!! He hardly eat any of my Asian cooking except American Chinese food.General Tso Chicken is widely know and found in all Chinese take out and buffet restaurants in the North America.Usually Chinese restaurant used dark meat chicken and bell pepper.But I used white meat chicken and steam broccoli instead because hubby can't take bell pepper and dried chili pepper.Here is my simple and easy General Tso's Chicken! Ingredients:

1-2 lb boneless chicken breast (cut cube)

5-6 tbsp corn flour

1 egg

1 tsp ground white pepper

1 tsp salt

*mix above ingredients for 20 minutes before deep fry*

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1 head broccoli (cut and steam)

1 cup cooking oil

4-5 clove garlic( minced)

1 tbsp hoisin sauce

1 tbsp soy sauce

2 tbsp sugar

1 tbsp Chinese rice wine

1 tsp ground ginger powder

1 tbsp chicken bullion powder

1 tsp dark soy sauce

1 tbsp corn flour with water (dissolve)

1 tbsp sesame oil

Method;

1:Prepare oil in deep pot for frying at medium heat.Add in coated boneless chicken in the hot oil one at a time,fried until it's turn golden brown ,removed and lay on paper towel to removed excess oil.

2:Prepare wok with 1 tbsp oil at high heat.Add in garlic, Chinese rice wine,hoisin sauce,soy sauce,sugar,dark soy sauce ,ground ginger powder ,chicken bullion powder and corn flour dissolve.Let the sauce simmer until it bubble boil .Quickly add in fried breaded cube chicken in the thick sauce,mix well.Remove from heat.

3:Microwave cut and wash broccoli in a large bowl covered for 2 minutes.Decorate steam broccoli with cooked chicken as shown.Serve warm with rice.

Note:

I used corn flour to coated chicken cube instead of wheat flour because corn flour will stay crunchy longer when mixed with sauce compare with wheat flour.

I'm submitting this recipe to Weekend Wokking, a world-wide food blogging event created by Wandering Chopsticks to celebrate the multiple ways we can cook one ingredient:Broccoli!! The host this month is Noobcook .If you would like to participate or to see the secret ingredient, check who's hosting next month.