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General Tso Chicken Cutlets Recipe
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To bewith this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have general tso chicken cutlets using 20 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make General Tso Chicken Cutlets:
- Take cutlets
- Prepare 1 lb boneless skinless chicken
- Take 1 large egg
- Make ready 1 tbsp hot sauce (optional)
- Prepare 3 tbsp corn starch
- Prepare salt
- Prepare ground black pepper
- Prepare optional breading
- Take flour or bread crumbs (optional)
- Prepare Tso sauce
- Prepare 1/2 cup Chicken broth or water
- Get 1/3 cup brown sugar
- Get 1 tbsp corn starch
- Take 3 tbsp hoisin sauce
- Get 3 tbsp catsup
- Make ready 2 tbsp soy sauce
- Make ready 1 tsp dried ground ginger
- Prepare crushed red pepper (optional)
- Make ready cooking
- Make ready oil for pan frying
Instructions to make General Tso Chicken Cutlets:
- Place each piece of chicken, one at a time, between plastic wrap. Pound to about 1/2 inch thick.
- Mix all the cutlet ingredients (first 5 after the chicken) except the chicken, together in a bowl large enough to hold all the chicken.
- Add the chicken cutlets to the the bowl, mix well. Set aside.
- Mix all tso sauce (every thing else but the oil and bread crumbs) ingredients. I used about 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper for a little heat. Adjust to your taste.
- Added enough oil to a skillet to come up about 1/4 - 1/3 way up the cutlets. Set on medium to medium-high heat.
- I use the cutlets as is, the corn starch coating gives it slight crunch, but if you desire a thicker breading, dredge in seasoned flour or coat with bread crumbs.
- Add cutlets to hot oil, fry until golden, flip, fry other side. Depending on your thickness, 2-4 minutes a side.
- Set each cooked cutlet out to drain.
- When all cutlets are fried, remove all but about a tablespoon of oil.
- Give the tso sauce one final stir, the add to the skillet. Bring to a boil, boil for about 1 minute, until thick. Turn heat down to medium - medium low.
- Adds cutlets back to skillet to warm back up and coat with the sauce.
- Serve with rice, noodles or a side of your choice (couscous shown here)
- Note - I am using both chicken breast and chicken thighs in these pictures.
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