Shortcut General Tso’s Ground Chicken

Name: Shortcut General Tso’s Ground Chicken
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Chinese-American
Ingredients: 450 g ground chicken; 10 ml Shaoxing wine; ¼ tsp salt; ¼ tsp ground white pepper; 2.5 ml sesame oil; 15 g plain flour; 40 g cornflour; 80 ml low-salt chicken stock; 50 g brown sugar; 15 ml light soy sauce; 15 ml rice vinegar; 5 ml dark soy sauce; 230 g broccoli florets; 60 ml neutral oil; 1 pc dried red chilli pepper; 2 clove garlic

Quick, saucy General Tso’s-style chicken made with ground chicken and steamed broccoli, no chopping or deep-frying needed.

35 min 419 kcal/serving serves 4

419kcal23gprotein31gcarbs24gfat

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🍗ground chicken

🍷Shaoxing wine

🧂salt

🧂ground white pepper

🫗sesame oil

🌾plain flour

🌾cornflour

🍗low-salt chicken stock

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The Woks of Life is a multigenerational family blog written by Bill, Judy, Sarah, and Kaitlin Leung, an American family with roots across different regions of China. Since 2013 they have published a large archive of tested Chinese recipes, drawing on both home cooking traditions and professional restaurant experience within the family.

Their recipes cover a wide range of Chinese regional cooking, from Northern dumplings and noodles to Cantonese stir-fries, Shanghainese braises, and Sichuan dishes with characteristic heat and numbing spice. They lean on wok technique, proper heat control, and pantry staples like soy sauce, Shaoxing wine, and doubanjiang, and they are known for explaining ingredients and methods in detail so home cooks can reproduce restaurant-style results.

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