The best General Tso's chicken from Serious Eats

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    Can substitute other oil for peanut oil.

  • rionafaith on February 01, 2021

    So this is a kind of weird method with the pouring half the marinade into the flour mixture, but it works! The flavor of the sauce is great -- tangier than most takeout General Tso's -- and the chicken ends up incredibly crispy. I ran out of cornstarch making this (didn't realize it used so much) so I ended up using potato starch in the sauce, and maybe it has extra thickening power but my sauce thickened almost immediately upon adding it to the pan and ended up quite thick (though still not gloppy the way some overly thickened sauces can be, so not terrible). After cooking the chicken, I added some broccoli florets to quickly stir-fry them in the remaining oil before tossing them in the sauce as well.

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