Easy General Tso’s

air fryer
chicken
Easy General Tso’s recipe for the air fryer

Doubled, modified version of recipe detailed in https://youtu.be/8zbkVCzb8v4?si=bhYA4FnfE96CGKMF

Ingredients

Chicken

  • 1000 g chicken
  • 1 large egg
  • 30 g soy sauce
  • 3 g garlic powder
  • Cornstarch (to coat, as needed)

Sauce

  • 25 g sugar
  • 30 soy sauce
  • 15 g rice vinegar
  • 15 g lemon juice
  • 23 g ketchup
  • 28 g hoisin sauce
  • 5 g minced garlic (2 cloves)
  • 5 g grated ginger
  • 0.5 g red pepper flakes (or to taste)
  • lemon zest
  • cornstarch (~5 g) slurry as needed

Instructions

  1. Cut chicken into 1.5’ cubes.
  2. Combine with egg, soy sauce, and garlic powder. Mix thoroughly.
  3. Add starch to a medium bowl. Transfer a few chicken pieces at a time to the starch, coat completely, then transfer to air fryer basket.
  4. Repeat 3 until basket is full with a single, evenly spaced layer. You’ll like need to cook in batches.
  5. Spray with oil. Air fry at 350 F for 10 min. Stir halfway through.
  6. While chicken cooks, combine all sauce ingredients (except cornstarch slurry) into a medium sauce pan. Bring to a simmer.
  7. Simmer for a couple minutes, then add cornstarch slurry as needed to thicken to desired consistency.
  8. Coat chicken in sauce, and serve over rice.