Instant Pot General Tso's Chicken Recipe
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Instant Pot General Tso's Chicken Recipe
Description
The recipe starts by cutting chicken thighs into chunks coated in beaten eggs, then dredged in a combined flour and cornflour mixture. The breaded pieces are sautéed in vegetable oil in an Instant Pot set to high heat, browning the chicken on multiple sides. Next, aromatics like minced garlic and ginger along with red chili flakes add spice and depth. The sauce consists of rice vinegar for acidity, soy sauce and hoisin sauce for umami and sweetness, brown sugar to balance the sour and salt, and water to adjust consistency.
After stirring the sauce ingredients together with the sautéed chicken, the Instant Pot lid is closed and pressure cooked using the poultry setting, ensuring the chicken finishes cooking tenderly while absorbing the sauce flavors. A cornstarch slurry is prepared separately to thicken the sauce once cooking finishes, though the specific step wasn't included.
The resulting dish combines the fried texture of the battered chicken with a sticky, tangy sauce that features balanced sweetness, slight heat from chili flakes, and bright ginger and garlic notes. It is suitable as a main course served with rice or steamed vegetables.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 pounds chicken thighs cut into 2-3 inch chunks
- 2-3 egg beaten
- 1 cup flour
- 1 cup cornflour
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 1 tbsp. ginger minced
- 1 tbsp. garlic minced
- 1/2 teaspoon red chili flakes
- 6 tbsp. rice vinegar
- 6 tbsp. soy sauce
- 6 tsp. hoisin sauce
- 1/3 cup water
- 3 tbsp. brown sugar
Cornstarch Slurry:
- 2 tbsp. cornstarch
- 3 tbsp. water
Instructions
- Start by cutting the chicken into 3-4 inch chunks.
- In a small bowl add your flour and corn flour mixto combine.
- In another small bowl add your beaten eggs.
- Take your chicken 5-6 pieces at a time, dip them in the egg mixture
- first then into the flour mixture.
- Place on a baking pan top with parchment paper and set to the side.
- Repeat steps until all chicken has been coated.
- Press Sauté on your Instant Pot-> click on high.
- Wait for the Instant Pot to read HOT.
- Add the oil to the Instant Pot, wait one minute for the oil to heat up and add the chicken.
- Sauté for 2-3 minutes, turn your chicken over to ensure even cooking.
- Do this for a few times.
- Continue to cook the chicken until it just starts to get golden.
- Add the rest of the ingredients to the Instant pot: ginger, garlic, red pepper flakes, hoisin sauce, soy sauce, rice vinegar, brown sugar and water.
- Stir well to combine.
- Close lid, select the Poultry function and adjust the time to 5 minutes.
- Then use a 10 minute Natural Release.
- Turn off the heat.
- Open the lid.
- Gently stir to combine.
- Select Saute’ on the Instant Pot
- Add your cornstarch slurry to the Instant Pot.
- Cook for 5 minutes.
- Turn your Instant pot off, let the General Tso Chicken stand for 5-7 minutes
- Serve
Cornstarch Slurry:
- In a small bowl combine the cornstarch with the water, whisk until all combined with no lumps.
Nutrition Information
Show DetailsNutrition Facts
Serving: 8Serving
Amount Per Serving
Calories 429 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 429kcal | 21% |
| Carbohydrates | 35g | 12% |
| Protein | 20g | 40% |
| Fat | 23g | 35% |
| Saturated Fat | 5g | 25% |
| Polyunsaturated Fat | 7g | 41% |
| Monounsaturated Fat | 8g | 40% |
| Trans Fat | 0.1g | 5% |
| Cholesterol | 124mg | 41% |
| Sodium | 767mg | 32% |
| Potassium | 297mg | 6% |
| Fiber | 2g | 8% |
| Sugar | 7g | 14% |
| Vitamin A | 164IU | 3% |
| Vitamin C | 1mg | 1% |
| Calcium | 48mg | 5% |
| Iron | 2mg | 11% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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