Also, the addition of the hoisin sauce may seem small and you may want to skip it because it isn’t a normal pantry item unless you are used to doing Asian cooking, but the flavor is that specific General Tso’s Chicken flavor that you’ll miss without it. You can definitely do a thicker typical breading if you would like, like what is done in our Orange Chicken recipe. These are all eliminated by going to a simple cornstarch coating. Other General Tso’s Chicken recipes can sometimes have cooking directions that are really complicated and with many different breading steps.
