Mean Guy's General Tso's Chicken

Very good. Instead of frying the chicken, I grilled it with dried peppers. Then pan fried it with the sauce.

Just got done eating this delish dish! A most excellent recipe and pretty easy to make too. I made it exactly as described, but next time I may skip the part of the egg and cornstarch just to lower the fat content a bit. The flavor of the sauce was awesome, so I will completely keep that part. I will definitely make this again and again.

My husband and I made this together last night. I am only giving a four star rating because we didn't use the sauce. We had never attempted General Tso's before and it really wasn't hard to do. We omitted the chili pods b/c we just didn't have any and used red pepper flake. We deep fried the chicken and we used a bottled General Tso's Stir Fry sauce I bought at Target (Archer Farms Brand...Also the best Teriyaki) we added chili oil to the final product it was awesome! Served with Fried rice and Spring Rolls. Perfect at home Chinese meal.

Mean Guy makes a mean General Tso's Chicken, that's for sure! We loved it with our Chinese dinner!

i didn't particularly like the twice-fried aspect of this. and the cornstarch mixture didn't stick well. but the flavor was excellent.

Yummy! We love this one! So much cheaper than going out and easy to make.

Great recipe! I made this and served with white rice and "Broccoli Parmesan" #17402. No need to go to the buffet anymore!

I must be a terrible cook because this didn't work out for me :( What I did differently was use red pepper flakes in place of the chili pods, use Tio Pepe sherry in place of the rice wine (couldn't find it anywhere) and I also added a dab of minced garlic and ginger; otherwise I followed the recipe exactly. I fried in a typical frying pan because I do not have a wok, so that could be the partial cause of my problems. The sauce didn't taste anything like General Tso's to me, the sherry taste came through VERY strongly. I used two tablespoons of sherry (since the recipe states 2 tablespoons of rice wine) but perhaps I should have reduced it. I don't know ANYTHING about sherry so perhaps I got a bad brand or used the wrong type of sherry or something (it was an extra dry sherry). Also, the sauce almost seemed kind of gritty and definitely didn't have the right texture. I am assuming this is because I used a frying pan...It was a little difficult to swirl all the chicken around in the sauce. I'm DYING to be able to enjoy this recipe since I'm sure it's a good one with so many wonderful reviews. I'd be so appreciative if there was someone that could Z-mail me some tips that may fix my problems so that I can enjoy this recipe with the rest of you!

Wow! So good! This is my husband's favorite, he's addicted. I followed the recipe almost exactly, but I did add more spice and a little bit more soy sauce to it. I added a couple of dashes of powdered cayenne pepper. We loved it that way, a little kick is always good in my family. My husband doesn't like sweet meat too much, so I added about another Tbsp of soy sauce to the mix. This is a keeper, thank you for the recipe.

This chicken is awesome. I have fixed it many times in the last few months. My husband (the pickiest man in the world) asks for it all the time. It does take a while to fix, so sometimes I wish he wouldn't ask for it, but once it is on the table, the taste is worth it! I have only used chicken tenderloins and it turns out great. I also use white wine for the rice wine, and most of the time i will double or triple the recipe, but I sometimes cut back on the sugar when I do that, once my husband mentioned it was too sweet. But, nonetheless a WONDERFUL recipe!!

This turned out great! Using some of the reviews I did change things up a bit. I couldn't find chili pods so I used 1 tablespoon of crushed red pepper flakes in the sauce. I also tripled the sauce recipe using 5 tablespoons of cornstarch. I will follow the review next time and use only 4 because the sauce did get extremely thick. Husband, daughter, niece and I all loved this. Thanks for a keeper!

This was a great recipe. I used chicken breast but was delicious! Served with Perfect rice Perfect Rice Everytime and Oven Roasted broccoli Oven Roasted Broccoli. Great Meal!

Loved it! What can I say that hasnt already been said? This dish is easy to prepare and has great flavor. We chopped up one of the chili pods (used Thai dragon chilis) and left the other 4 intact to give the dish some heat. I will definitely double the sauce next time. Thanks for this keeper.

What a pity...we can't give occasional 10 stars to recipes! This is very good, with a flavorful sauce. It is not too hot (if you want it hot, chop up some of the chili pods). I suggest using Chinese rice wine (I use Shao Xing brand). The only problem I had was not the recipe's fault--my glass-top stove is just terrible for stir-frying over, so it didn't really crisp up like it should have. Next time I may take DH up on his offer to stir-fry outdoors over his portable gas stove!

We loved this in our house! I also used boneless chicken breast and red pepper flakes and it was still delicious. I also doubled the sauce and honestly could have tripled it because it was delicious with rice. I thought this would be really time consuming but it honestly was very easy. I did the first fry in advance and then when the rice was close to done I did the second fry. The only tricky thing was making sure the chicken was actually done cooking on the first fry. I will make this again and again because it was amazing. There are no good chinese restaurants here so this was a really welcome meal for us!

Good Stuff ! I also added the crushed red flakes. The rice does'nt get enough sauce in it though.Doubling or maybe tripling the sauce is the way to go. Thanks

Very good. I didn't have rice wine so I used cooking Sherry and the flavor was still wonderful. The dried chili pods didn't add nearly enough spice for me so I added crushed red pepper flakes too. Will definitely make this again! My 2 year old loved it too. She said, "Mmm...de-wish-ous!"