I followed the recipe steps exactly but the ingredients I changed a bit. I substituted minced garlic for powder garlic, salted peanuts for dry roasted, and I used the frozen packaged chicken instead of "fresh chicken"...not that chicken can be all that fresh if it's not freshly killed chicken...(like the chicken from my mom's backyard!) Roger bought the chicken when he went to Ralph's because it was on sale. He's a sucker for a sale and I guess I'm a bit of snob now that I have a Costco card and buy my Foster Farms chicken in bulk. So now I'm stuck with cooking that frozen chicken until it's gone!
Surprisingly, the chicken wasn't all that bad. It was tender and moist. I don't know if it was tender because of the coating of cornstarch or because it was the frozen chicken...but it was tender nonetheless.
The Kung Pao Chicken was actually pretty good. It was easy to cook with minimal ingredients. I'd cook it again and next time, with the non frozen chicken!
Total Cost of Meal: Hard to calculate because many of the ingredients I already had...so probably around $5
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