It was created by Ding Baozhen, governor of Shandong Province and governor of Sichuan Province in the Qing Dynasty. He had a good knowledge of cooking. He liked to eat chicken and peanuts, especially spicy. When he was an official in Shandong Province, he ordered his family chef to improve stir fried chicken with soy sauce for spicy stir fry. Later, when the governor of Sichuan was in office, he popularized the dish and created a delicious delicacy made of stir fried chicken, red pepper and peanuts. This delicious dish was originally a private dish of Ding's family, but later it became well known as kung pao chicken. The so-called palace protector is actually Ding Baozhen's honorary official rank. In his ten years of governing Shu, Ding Baozhen was upright. He had many achievements and died in Guangxu's eleven years. In order to commend his achievements, the Qing government pursued and awarded crown prince and crown protector. As mentioned above, Prince Taibao is one of Gongbao. Therefore, in order to commemorate Ding Baozhen, the dish he invented was named Gongbao chicken. Because this dish is so popular, there are many different ways around. There are even some
Step1:Put the cut chicken into the cooking bowl and add salt. Stir evenly in one direction. Add in the egg and continue to mix well. After making it strong, add in the raw meal and stir evenly. Add in the vegetable oil. Refrigerate and marinate for 2 hours before use.
Step2:Turn the heat to medium high. Pour in the vegetable oil. Put in the peanuts. Stir fry until the peanuts turn golden yellow. Remove and cool.
Step3:Pour vegetable oil into the pot. When the oil temperature rises to 6 layers, pour in the cured chicken. When the chicken meat turns gray white, take out and filter out the oil. Keep the oil in the pot.
Step4:Adjust the fire power to a low temperature. Put in the pepper. Stir the pepper to make it fragrant. Take out the pepper. Add dried pepper, green onion, ginger, garlic and stir fry to taste.
Step5:Add chicken, cooking wine, raw soy sauce, old soy sauce, sugar and chicken soup. Stir well. Add vinegar. Pour in starch and thicken.
Step6:Add in the peanuts and stir fry them.
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Cooking tips:There are skills in making delicious dishes.