Kung pao chicken from The Chinese Takeout Cookbook: Quick and Easy Dishes to Prepare at Home by Diana Kuan

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Accompaniments: Stir-fried sesame baby bok choy

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  • BethNH on November 19, 2014

    Delicious but not for the faint of heart! The recipe is very well written. The different parts of the recipe - marinade, sauce, and main ingredients - are separated on the side bar which makes it really easy to prepare each part of the recipe. Although there are many ingredients, they come together easily. While the chicken marinates, it's easy to pull together the sauce and additional ingredients. I doubled this recipe to feed my family of five and hesitated to double the dried red chilies called for. The recipe calls for 8-10 and I went with 10ish. Everything else in the recipe was doubled. Thank goodness I didn't double the red chilies because this dish was HOT! It was delicious but very spicy. It was hilarious to watch the sweat break out on the brows of my family. We all loved the dish but agreed that next time we'd cut the number of peppers in half. The chicken was very flavorful and the sauce nicely covered everything. We'll definitely eat this again with one minor change.

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