This Ginger Chicken Recipe will remind you of a delicious dish from your favorite Chinese restaurant. The key to a tasty ginger chicken dish is fresh ginger, and lots of it. You won’t need hard to find ingredients, just a little soy sauce, sesame oil, and some fresh produce will make all of the difference.
What You Need To Make This Ginger Chicken Recipe
1 lbs. CHICKEN 1 Tbsp CORN STARCH 1 Tbsp SESAME OIL 1 Tbsp SOY SAUCE SALT and PEPPER (to taste) 4-6 cloves GARLIC ½ cup GINGER ½ cup ONION ½ to 1 cup CARROTS ½ to 1 cup CASHEWS 1 cup chopped Zucchini or other veggies (optional) some OIL for sauteing HOT PEPPER (optional)
Sauce Ingredients: 1 Tbsp SESAME OIL 2 Tbsp SOY SAUCE 2 Tbsp RICE VINEGAR 2-3 Tbsp JAM (or substitute sugar) 1 Tbsp CORN STARCH ½ to 1 cup WATER
Best Ginger Chicken Recipe
How To Make Ginger Chicken
Use skinless and boneless white or dark meat chicken, whichever you prefer.
Chop chicken into bite-sized pieces and place into a bowl.
Add 1 Tbsp sesame oil, 1 Tbsp soy sauce, 1 Tbsp corn starch, and salt and pepper to taste. Mix well with the chicken and then set the bowl aside.
In another bowl, combine sauce ingredients and set aside.
Prepare the veggies; this dish will cook fast, so have all the veggies chopped before beginning to cook the chicken.
Chop fresh ginger into matchstick sizes; fresh ginger and lots of it make this recipe delicious,so don’t be shy with the ginger.
Cut carrots into matchstick sizes.
Finely chop the garlic.
Chop onions (I prefer green onions if I have them on hand, but any onion will work.
Chop hot pepper if desired; the fresh ginger will add a bit of bite to the dish, so skip the pepper if you prefer a milder recipe.
Heat a skillet and oil on medium high heat. Add chicken and cook, stirring occasionally for 5 minutes, and adjust heat as needed. If you need a nice skillet, you can check here for current pricing for a non-stick skillet on Amazon.
After 5 minutes, add onion, garlic, ginger, and hot peppers.
Cook another 5 minutes, then add carrots and any other veggies; add sauce and mix well and continue to cook for 5 more minutes.
Add more water if desired. The sauce will be thicker or thinner depending on the amount of water added.
To finish the dish, stir in cashew nuts and remove from the heat.
And that’s it! Serve over rice.
Give this this super simple and flavorful ginger chicken recipe a try and let me know what you think, and bon appétit!
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Try this fried chicken cutlets recipe that I find in a lot of non-fancy Chinese restaurants. It’s a chicken cutlet served over lettuce and rice and topped with peanut sauce, crushed peanuts, and green onion. It’s a very simple dish to make, and a kind of comfort food for me.
What You Need to Make A Chinese Fried Chicken Cutlets Recipe
CHICKEN BREAST sliced thin OIL for frying EGG and FLOUR for breading LETTUCE …use fresh, crisp greens RICE …I like jasmine rice for this dish CRUSHED PEANUTS GREEN ONION TOPS SALT and PEPPER (to taste) peanut sauce: ¼ cup NATURAL PEANUT BUTTER 2 Tbsp SOY SAUCE 1 Tbsp CHILI GARLIC SAUCE ¼ cup WATER or as needed to thin sauce to desired consistency
Slice chicken breast thinly and season simply with salt and pepper for this chicken cutlet dish.
How to Make A Chinese Style Fried Chicken Dish
Slice chicken breast into cuts about ¼ inch thick. Season chicken with salt and pepper. Coat chicken lightly with all purpose flour. Dredge chicken in an egg wash, Re-flour chicken (or use bread crumbs…I kinda like just more flour for this recipe) Heat a skillet and oil on medium heat, maybe slightly more than medium–you’ll have to adjust the heat during cooking depending on how much chicken is in the pan. Make sure oil is hot before adding chicken! Otherwise the chicken will soak in the oil and be too greasy.
Adjust the heat as needed when frying chicken cutlets. You want the oil hot enough to cook the chicken through, but still leave the breading a nice, golden color.
Add chicken to skillet. Cook approx. 4 minutes until chicken is fried golden brown on bottom, then turn and fry other side approx 4 minutes. Adjust cooking time as needed; the key is not having the oil so hot that the breading overcooks before the chicken is done, adjust heat as required. Remove chicken from oil and drain on a paper towel. For each serving, plate a serving of sticky white rice. Top rice with sliced lettuce; use fresh, crisp greens. Combine peanut sauce ingredients and drizzle sauce over the lettuce. Slice one of the whole fried chicken cutlets into ½ inch cuts and top over lettuce. Add more peanut sauce. Top dish with crushed peanuts and sliced green onion tops.
Top Chinese chicken cutlet with a tangy peanut sauce, crushed peanuts, and green onion.
And that’s it! Give this Chinese-style fried chicken cutlets dish a try and let me know what you think, and bon appétit!
Kung Pao Chicken tastes great and cooks up super quick, so next time you feel like ordering Chinese take-out, try cooking this Chinese favorite at home instead.
Kung Pao Chicken Ingredients
1 lbs CHICKEN (boneless/skinless) 1 med-sized ZUCCHINI 1 stalk CELERY ½ RED BELL PEPPER 4-5 GREEN ONIONS 3-4 GARLIC minced 2 tsp GINGER minced RED PEPPER FLAKES (to taste) 1 Tbsp SESAME OIL 1 Tbsp CORN STARCH 1 Tbsp SOY SAUCE ¾ cup PEANUTS 3 Tbsp OIL for skillet Salt and Pepper (to taste) Sauce Ingredients: 3 Tbsp SOY SAUCE 2 Tbsp RICE VINEGAR 2 tsp SESAME OIL 2 TBSP HOISIN SAUCE (or sub brown sugar) 1 Tbsp CHILI PASTE 1 Tbsp CORN STARCH ½ cup WATER
Serve Kung Pao Chicken with rice.
How to make Kung Pao Chicken
Cut 1 lb. of boneless, skinless chicken into ½”-1″ pieces and place in a bowl. Season meat with salt and pepper to taste, then add a splash of sesame oil, 1 Tbsp soy sauce, and 1 Tbsp cornstarch. Toss chicken with ingredients until the chicken pieces are coated, then set aside in the fridge.
In a small bowl, combine all of the ingredients listed above for the sauce. Stir until all ingredients are mixed well, and then set aside.
Add the coated chicken. Stir and allow the chicken to cook quickly. Brown all sides and cook until chicken is nearly done.
Add red pepper flakes (or fresh chopped hot peppers), minced garlic, and minced ginger, and stir for a few moments while the garlic colors.
Add chopped bottoms from green onions, diced red pepper (red or orange bell peppers look very nice with this dish), chopped celery, and diced zucchini. Stir with chicken for 2 minutes and then add sauce.
Keeping the skillet on med. high, the sauce will bubble and thicken quickly; stir 1-2 minutes and then add peanuts. Stir 1 more minute, then mix in green onion tops.
Remove from heat and serve over rice. And that’s it–an Americanized version of a classic Chinese Kung Pao Chicken Recipe. Give this dish a try and let me know what you think…and bon appétit!
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General Tso’s Chicken is a delicious dish you’ll find at most Chinese restaurants–and you can make the very same dish in your own kitchen at home.
The chicken in this recipe is baked instead of deep fried, which is a little healthier and a lot less messier, if you’re into that kinda thing. Give this recipe a try and let me know what you think.
Ingredients for General Tsos Chicken
3 cups crushed CORN FLAKES (or panko crumbs) 1 1/2 lbs boneless, skinless CHICKEN 1/2 cup ALL-PURPOSE FLOUR 2 EGGS, whisked 2 tsp SESAME OIL 5-6 GARLIC cloves (minced) 1 Tbsp GINGER (minced) 1/4 tsp RED PEPPER FLAKES 1/3 cup SOY SAUCE 1/4 cup APRICOT JAM 3 Tbsp HOISIN SAUCE (check current price for hoisin sauce on Amazon) 2 Tbsp CORNSTARCH 1 Tbsp BALSAMIC VINEGAR 1 2/3 cups WATER SESAME SEEDS and GREEN ONION for garnish
How to make General Tso’s Chicken
Toast sesame seeds (make extra, ’cause they’re a great addition to all kinds of dishes). You’ll need about 1 1/2 pounds of chicken cut into roughly 1″ pieces–dark or white, whichever you prefer. We’re gonna bread and bake the chicken ’cause it’s healthier and less messy than frying.
Set up a breading station: In a bowl, season 1 cup of flour with salt and pepper. In another bowl, whip 2 eggs. And in a third bowl set out your breading–use panko flakes or crushed cereal. Coat each piece of chicken in flour, then egg, and then roll and coat with bread crumbs and arrange on a greased baking sheet.
When all the chicken is breaded and arranged on the pan, coat the top lightly with an oil spray. Slide the chicken into an oven heated at 400 degrees F and allow to bake 20 minutes. When the chicken is golden and crispy, remove from oven and set aside.
In a bowl, combine soy sauce, hoisin sauce, vinegar, cornstarch and water. Mix well.
Heat sesame oil in a skillet on medium high heat. Add pepper flakes, garlic and ginger. Saute for 2 minutes and then add sauce. Constantly stirring, allow the sauce to come to a simmer. When the sauce begins to bubble, continue stirring a few minutes until the sauce thickens into a syrupy consistency–this will happen quite quickly.
Add the chicken and stir, tossing the chicken until it is well coated with sauce. Transfer chicken and sauce to a serving dish and garnish with toasted sesame seeds and chopped green onion. Serve with rice or noodles.
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