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Chinese: General Tsao's Chicken 1

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      Title: CHINESE: GENERAL TSAO'S CHICKEN 1
 Categories: Main dish, Meats, Chinese, Ethnic, Poultry
      Yield: 6 Servings
 
      1 lb Boneless chicken breasts cut
           -into 1 in pieces
      3 tb Soy suace
      3 tb Cornstarch
      1    Egg white beaten until
           -frothy
      1 c  Veg. oil
      3    Hot dried chili peppers,
           -broken in half
      2    Cloves garlic finely chopped
      1    Piece ginger root (1 in)
           -peeled and finely chopped
      1 tb White wine vinegar
      1 tb White wine
      1 ts Cornstarch
      1 ts Sesame oil
    1/2 ts Salt
      1 ts Brown sugar
 
  Wow, with over a dozen Chinese or Oriental cookbooks, I had a hard
  time finding this recipe! It is probably called something else (like
  spicy fried chicken) and I really do have a dozen recipes.
  :)  This one is from _Elegant_ Entertaining_Cookbook_ by Myra Sable of
  Sable and Rosenfeld, Bantam books.
  
  General Tsao was a real person, general and poet who lived in China
  155-220 AD.
  
  rn e in the frig for 1 hour.
  
  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.
 
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