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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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