Another Favorite: General Tso's Chicken

As I've mentioned before, we love Chinese food!  We make Asian style food weekly in our house.  This recipe for Skinny General Tso's Chicken comes from Carlsbad Cravings. Of course I found this recipe on Pinterest awhile make.  It is on our dinner menu regularly- well about as frequently as we would eat any of our favorites (no more than once a month).  Looking at the ingredients, yes the chicken is baked, but I do wonder is this really a "skinny" recipe?

This recipe is so full of flavor you'll be thrilled you tried it.  What you won't be so thrilled about is how many ingredients and dishes get used to make this.  Our kitchen always looks like a bomb exploded when we have finished making this.

Time after time, we forget that the original recipe has you marinade the chicken. So we usually don't do that step.  We make 1/2 of the marinade/ sauce recipe and use what we've made for the sauce.

For the Sauce:
1/4 C. soy sauce
1/4 C. rice wine vinegar
1/4 C. water
1. Tbl. sesame oil
1 tsp. Sriracha
1/4 tsp. salt
3 cloves of minced garlic
2 Tbl. freshly grated ginger (We keep ours in the freezer and use it whenever it's needed)
Sprinkle of pepper
1 Tbl. cornstarch

Whisk together all of these ingredients and wait.



For the Breading:
1 C. flour
1/2 tsp. pepper
1/4 tsp. cayenne pepper
2 Tbl. ground ginger
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. onion powder
1 tsp. garlic powder





Egg Wash:
1 egg
1 Tbl. water

Mix the flour breading ingredients together.  Whisk together the egg and water in a separate bowl.





Then dip the chicken (we use about a pound of chicken, diced) in the egg wash.  Next coat it in the flour breading mixture.  Place the breaded chicken on a foil-lined cookie sheet and spray with EVOO.  Bake at 375 for about ten minutes.  Then flip the chicken, spray the tops with EVOO and broil for about 3 minutes on each side to make the chicken crisp.

Caramel Sauce:
1 C. sugar
1/4 C. water

In a medium sized sauce pan, bring the sugar and water to a boil for one minute.  Stir in the sauce.  At this point we usually toss in diced peppers and onions.  Once the chicken is cooked, mix the chicken into the sauce. Enjoy!


We usually have edamame and rice with this, but during the pregnancy we've been substituting the rice for couscous.

This recipe really is worth emptying out your fridge and spice cabinet.  I'll even go as far as saying it is worth all of the dishes!