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Kung Pao Chicken.

You can cook Kung Pao Chicken using 19 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Kung Pao Chicken

1. It's 2 Tbsp of vegetable oil.
2. Prepare 3 cloves of garlic, minced.
3. You need 2 cm of ginger, thinly sliced.
4. It's 1/2 of red bell pepper, diced.
5. You need 12 of dried red chilies, soaked in hot water for 30 minutes- 1 hour, seeded and cut into halves.
6. You need 50 gr of roasted peanuts 🥜.
7. It's 2 of green onions, cut 1/2 cm.
8. It's 500 gr of boneless chicken thighs/breast, diced, pat dry with paper towels.
9. Prepare of For the chicken marinade:.
10. Prepare 1 tsp of sesame oil.
11. You need 1 Tbsp of cornstarch.
12. Prepare 2 tsp of soy sauce.
13. It's of For the Kung Pao sauce:.
14. It's 1/2 tsp of Chinese Shaoxing rice wine (optional).
15. You need 1 Tbsp of soy sauce.
16. You need 1 Tbsp of dark soy sauce.
17. It's 1/2 tsp of Chinese black vinegar.
18. Prepare 1 tsp of sugar.
19. It's 2 Tbsp of water.

Kung Pao Chicken instructions

1. In a medium bowl, add chicken and marinade sauce. Mix well. Set aside for at least 30 minutes..
2. In a small bowl, mix well the ingredients for the sauce. Set aside..
3. Heat the vegetable oil in a pan over medium high heat. Sauté garlic, ginger, and dried red chilies until fragrant and smell spicy..
4. Add chicken. Keep stirring until the chicken change color..
5. Add roasted peanuts and red bell peppers. Mix well..
6. Add the sauce mixture. Cook until the chicken is evenly coated with the sauce. Add green onions. Stir again for a while. Remove from the heat..
7. Serve hot over steam white rice. Yum! 😋.