A Process Map of Cooking Kung-pao Chicken

    Kung-pao Chicken is one of the traditional dishes in China, as well as one of the most famous Chinese food in the world. The process map below is a manual for lay people or Chinese food lovers of how to cook Kung-pao Chicken, which contains 20 steps and takes 30 minutes in total.

    Step 1
    Prepare the materials:
     1）Two chicken legs (without skin);
     2）Seasoning: 1 tablespoon+7-1/2 tsp oil, 5 tsp soy sauce, 4 tsp vinegar, 1/2 tsp salt, 2 tsp white sugar, 2g Chinese prickly ash, 1/4 egg white, 5g shallot, 3 tsp starch, 2 tsp cooking wine, 10g dried chili, 5g ginger, 5g garlic, 2 tsp broad bean paste, 1 tsp chili oil;
     3）50g peanut (without peel).

    Step 2
    Cut meat from bone, pull bones from legs, cut the meat into cubes, and wash them with water. 5 min (Picture 1—4)

    Step 3
    Put chicken cubes, 1/2 tsp salt, 1 tsp cooking wine, 1 tsp soy sauce, 2 tsp starch, 1/2 tsp oil, and 1/4 egg white together in a bowl and stir, 2min (Picture 5)
    
    Step 4
    Place the bowl of chicken cubes in the freezer for 10 minutes
    
    Step 5
    Finely chop shallot, ginger and garlic, cut the dried chili to pieces about 1cm long with scissors, 1 min (Picture 6)

    Step 6
    Heat 1 tablespoon oil over medium-high heat in a medium saucepan, 30 secs
    
    Step 7
    Stir peanuts with low heat in the saucepan and dish up, 3 min (Picture 7—9)

    
    Step 8
    Make a bowl of sauce mix: 2 tsp white sugar, 4 tsp soy sauce, 4 tsp vinegar,1 tsp starch, some garlic and shallot, 40ml water, mix and stir them, 1min (Picture 10)
    
    Step 9
    Put 2 tsp oil in the medium saucepan, put chicken cubes in it and fry with medium-high heat for 1-1/2 min, then dish up (Picture 11—13)

    
    Step 10
    Heat 5 tsp oil in the medium saucepan, 30 sec
    
    Step 11
    Stir-fry ginger, 2g Chinese prickly ash and some shallot until fragrant, 30 sec (Picture 14)
    
    Step 12
    Add dried chili and garlic to stir for 20 sec (Picture 15)
    
    Step 13
    Add fried chicken cubes and stir, 2 min (Picture 16)

    Step 14
    Add 2 tsp broad bean paste and stir-fry, 1 min (Picture 17)
    
    Step 15
    Add 1 tsp cooking wine when fragrant
    
    Step 16
    Add the bowl of sauce mix and stir quickly with medium-high heat, 1 min (Picture 18)
    
    Step 17
    Add fried peanuts and stir, 30 sec (Picture 19)
    
    Step 18 (optional)
    Add 1 tsp chili oil and stir, 30 sec (Picture 20)

    Step 19
    Sprinkle a little shallot
    
    Step 20
    Dish up

    Wow! It looks tempting, isn't it? Now, It's time to have a meal, let's go!