General Tsao's Chicken

Ingredients

1 pound boneless chicken breasts cut into 1 in pieces
3 Tbsp soy sauce
3 Tbsp cornstarch
1 egg white beaten until frothy
1 cup oil
3 hot dried chili peppers, broken in half
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
1-inch piece ginger root, peeled and finely chopped
1 Tbsp white wine vinegar
1 Tbsp white wine
1 tsp cornstarch
1 tsp sesame oil
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp brown sugar

Instructions

Yield: 6 servings. Heat the oil in a wok. Deep fry the chicken, a few pieces at a time, about 1 minute or until golden brown. Remove and drain on paper towels. Pour all but 2 TB of the oil out of the wok. To the oil in the wok, add the chili peppers, garlic and ginger, stir-fry 2 minutes. In a small bowl, combine the remaining soy sauce, vinegar, white wine and 1 tea cornstarch, mix until smooth. Stir in sugar, sesame oil and salt. Pour into wok, cook, stirring for 2 minutes until thickened. Return chicken pieces to wok, mix well and serve. General Tsao was a real person, general and poet who lived in China 155-220 AD.