{"id":10618,"date":"2023-12-31T20:14:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T01:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=10618"},"modified":"2024-01-09T15:59:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T20:59:49","slug":"general-taos-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=10618","title":{"rendered":"General Tao&#8217;s &#8230; Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Four turkey thighs, deboned and cut into bite-sized pieces<\/li>\n<li>2 Tbsp Shaoxing wine<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup stock<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 tsp salt<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 tsp ground pepper<\/li>\n<li>1 Tbsp sesame oil<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 cup sesame seeds<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 cup all purpose flour<\/li>\n<li>3\/4 cup corn starch<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Combine all ingredients except turkey and mix into a thick paste. Then fold in turkey pieces and coat well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_20231231_193209.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10619\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_20231231_193209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_20231231_193209.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_20231231_193209-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_20231231_193209-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_20231231_193209-750x563.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_20231231_193209-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Add a handful of chili peppers to the oil before frying &#8212; the turkey is fried in chili oil. Fry, remove from oil, and drain on paper towel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_20231231_194205.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10620\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_20231231_194205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_20231231_194205.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_20231231_194205-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_20231231_194205-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_20231231_194205-750x563.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_20231231_194205-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sauce:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 cup stock<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup soy sauce<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup maple syrup or brown sugar<\/li>\n<li>2 Tbsp rice wine vinegar (or apple cider vinegar)<\/li>\n<li>2 Tbsp Shaoxing wine<\/li>\n<li>2 Tbsp corn starch<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Combine all sauce ingredients in a sauce pan and heat until thickened. Serve with a veggie (roasted broccoli, garden peas) and rice. I sprinkled ground Aji Lemon Drop pepper powder over the rice, sauce, and peas. Then topped with fried turkey to keep it crispy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_20231231_203719.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10621\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_20231231_203719.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_20231231_203719.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_20231231_203719-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_20231231_203719-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_20231231_203719-750x563.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_20231231_203719-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ingredients Four turkey thighs, deboned and cut into bite-sized pieces 2 Tbsp Shaoxing wine 1\/2 cup stock 1\/2 tsp salt 1\/2 tsp ground pepper 1 Tbsp sesame oil 1\/4 cup sesame seeds 1\/4 cup all purpose flour 3\/4 cup corn starch Combine all ingredients except turkey and mix into a thick paste. Then fold in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[21,1514,128,46,1217],"class_list":["post-10618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-cooking-2","tag-dinner","tag-food","tag-recipes","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10618"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10640,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10618\/revisions\/10640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}