Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

1 lb Boneless chicken breasts cut 2 Cloves garlic finely chopped
-into 1 in pieces 1 Piece ginger root (1 in)
3 tb Soy sauce -peeled and finely chopped
3 tb Cornstarch 1 tb White wine vinegar
1 Egg white beaten until 1 tb White wine
-frothy 1 ts Cornstarch
1 c Veg. oil 1 ts Sesame oil
3 Hot dried chili peppers, 1/2 ts Salt
-broken in half 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 Tso's was a real person, general and poet who lived in China
155-220 AD.

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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