Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, general tso chicken cutlets. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
General Tso Chicken Cutlets is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. General Tso Chicken Cutlets is something that I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have general tso chicken cutlets using 20 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make General Tso Chicken Cutlets:
- Take cutlets
- Make ready 1 lb boneless skinless chicken
- Get 1 large egg
- Prepare 1 tbsp hot sauce (optional)
- Take 3 tbsp corn starch
- Take salt
- Take ground black pepper
- Take optional breading
- Take flour or bread crumbs (optional)
- Get Tso sauce
- Get 1/2 cup Chicken broth or water
- Make ready 1/3 cup brown sugar
- Take 1 tbsp corn starch
- Make ready 3 tbsp hoisin sauce
- Get 3 tbsp catsup
- Take 2 tbsp soy sauce
- Take 1 tsp dried ground ginger
- Make ready crushed red pepper (optional)
- Make ready cooking
- Prepare oil for pan frying
Steps 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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