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Make KOSHER Kung Pao Chicken AT HOME

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Rabbi Shais Taub

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  1. 0:00This year on the Jewish calendar is 5786. On the Chinese calendar, it's 4724, which raises…
  2. 1:01So, Kung Pao actually means palace guardian because there was a palace guardian about 200 years…
  3. 2:03hard to eat, cuz you're not going to eat it. It's there to flavor the wok.…
  4. 3:14>> [snorts] >> Now, I'm going to pre-mix the sauce. Okay? The sauce is basically soy…
  5. 4:15cocoa powder. Just a little cocoa powder. All right. Now, we're going to get the chicken…
  6. 5:19I'm putting the peanuts in now. The peanuts are one of the signatures. I put the…
  7. 6:20chicken. He didn't make the chicken. He wasn't the chef. He was the Palace Guard, which…
  8. 7:20we're afraid of invaders, of warding off foreign armies, but rather it is a mitzvah, it…
  9. 8:20That's what I'm doing. Okay, this is the sugar and the cocoa powder. Actually, I'm going…
  10. 9:28and also create that crunchy texture. Baruch atah Adonai Eloheinu Melech ha'olam sh'hakol nihiyeh bidvaro. >>…

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