General Tso's chicken (Zuo zong tang) from Every Grain of Rice: Simple Chinese Home Cooking (page 122) by Fuchsia Dunlop

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Ingredients

potato flour
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sesame oil
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Notes about this recipe

Ro_ on April 10, 2023

This was delicious. Like another commenter, I thought it could do with a little sweet note so I added a touch of sugar and I think it was all the better for it. This recipe is very similar to the one in Revolutionary Chinese cookbook, with only very small differences. From memory I preferred the way this one came out but it be from the off-recipe sugar that made the difference.
Delys77 on January 04, 2022

I thought this was quite good but a bit too much tomato flavour for our taste.
ebalk02 on May 10, 2021

Tasty, but will probably not make this again. In spite of the deep frying, my chicken wasn't very crunchy and like aberne, added a bit of honey.
metacritic on January 10, 2021

This is marvelous. I don't deep fry often but am glad I made an exception. The dish came together pretty quickly, as her recipes do, needing no tweaks. I served with dan dan noodles and some roast duck I picked up from the Chinese grocery store. It has echoes of what you get in a decent restaurant but the sesame oil adds depth, it is lighter than what I've had in restaurants, and not cloyingly sweet. Highly recommend.
aberne on December 08, 2020

This is so good. I added a touch of honey to smooth out the sour notes a bit and it was great. Came together quickly too. Simple side of paprika and snow peas with ginger and a big bowl of rice.