Name: Kung Pao Chicken
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 75 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: Sake; Soy Sauce; Sesame Seed Oil; Corn Flour; Chicken; Brown Sugar; Spring Onions; Garlic Clove; Water Chestnut; Red Chilli Powder; Peanuts; Rice Vinegar

Spicy stir-fried chicken dish made with peanutsvegetablesand chili peppers

A traditional Japanese rice wine that adds depth and complexity to sauces and marinades.

Sake

Soy sauce is a staple condiment in many cuisines and

Soy Sauce

This golden oil is packed with nutty flavor and adds a delightful depth to dishes.

Sesame Seed Oil

Colby Jack is a cheese blend of Colby and Monterey Jack cheeses, resulting in a mild and mellow flavour with a slightly tangy finish.

Corn Flour

The chicken is a type of domesticated fowl, a subspecies of the red junglefowl (Gallus gallus). It is one of the most common and widespread domestic animals, with a total population of more than 19 billion as of 2011. There are more chickens in the world than any other bird or domesticated fowl. Humans keep chickens primarily as a source of food (consuming both their meat and eggs) and, less commonly, as pets. Originally raised for cockfighting or for special ceremonies, chickens were not kept for food until the Hellenistic period (4th–2nd centuries BC).

Genetic studies have pointed to multiple maternal origins in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia, but with the clade found in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa originating in the Indian subcontinent. From ancient India, the domesticated chicken spread to Lydia in western Asia Minor, and to Greece by the 5th century BC. Fowl had been known in Egypt since the mid-15th century BC, with the "bird that gives birth every day" having come to Egypt from the land between Syria and Shinar, Babylonia, according to the annals of Thutmose III.

Chicken

Brown sugar is a sucrose sugar product with a distinctive brown color due to the presence of molasses. It is either an unrefined or partially refined soft sugar consisting of sugar crystals with some residual molasses content, or it is produced by the addition of molasses to refined white sugar.

Brown Sugar

Spring onions are a versatile ingredient that add a mild onion flavor to dishes.

Spring Onions

A pungent little bulb that adds a powerful punch to any dish.

Garlic Clove

Eleocharis dulcis, the Chinese water chestnut or water chestnut, is a grass-like sedge native to Asia (China, Japan, India, Philippines, etc.), Australia, tropical Africa, and various islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. It is grown in many countries for its edible corms.

The water chestnut is not a nut at all, but an aquatic vegetable that grows in marshes, under water, in the mud. It has stem-like, tubular green leaves that grow to about 1.5 m. The water caltrop, which also is referred to by the same name, is unrelated and often confused with the water chestnut.

The small, rounded corms have a crisp, white flesh and may be eaten raw, slightly boiled, or grilled, and often are pickled or tinned. They are a popular ingredient in Chinese dishes. In China, they are most often eaten raw, sometimes sweetened. They also may be ground into a flour form used for making water chestnut cake, which is common as part of dim sum cuisine. They are unusual among vegetables for remaining crisp even after being cooked or canned, because their cell walls are cross-linked and strengthened by certain phenolic compounds, such as oligomers of ferulic acid. This property is shared by other vegetables that remain crisp in this manner, including the tiger nut and lotus root. The corms contain the antibiotic agent puchiin, which is stable to high temperature. Apart from the edible corms, the leaves can be used for cattlefeed, mulch or compost.

The corms are rich in carbohydrates (about 90% by dry weight), especially starch (about 60% by dry weight), and are also a good source of dietary fiber, riboflavin, vitamin B6, potassium, copper, and manganese.

If eaten uncooked, the surface of the plants may transmit fasciolopsiasis.

Water Chestnut

A fine, ground powder made from dried red chile peppers with a bold, spicy flavor that is often used as a condiment or a seasoning in a variety of dishes.

Red Chilli Powder

A type of legume with a nutty, slightly sweet flavor and a crunchy texture that is often used as a snack or added to a variety of dishes for flavor and crunch.

Peanuts

A type of vinegar made from fermented rice with a light, slightly sweet and tangy flavor that is often used as a condiment or in a variety of dishes.

Kung Pao Chicken

330

35 g

13 g

18 g

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