Friday, August 12, 2011

Culinary Product Review - Panda Express Kung Pao Sauce

I had no clue what to cook for dinner.  I knew it had to use chicken, not use the oven and have a short cooking time.  After all, I'm in Texas and the average temperature for the week is 103.  As I was driving down the highway from my commute from Temple to Georgetown, it dawned on me.  I want Asian food.  Who doesn't love Asian food?  I have always wanted to try the Panda Express bottled sauces.  I figured, why not now?

I always do my chopping and prep work before hand.  If you cook long enough, you realize that things go a lot smoother in the kitchen when you have everything measured and ready to go.  The only problem was, I had no recipe to go off of.  I literally looked at the picture on the bottle and bought the ingredients I saw.  I won't go too much into detail with the recipe as this is not the purpose of this review.


The sauce:  It isn't identical to what you will taste in the restaurant, but it is pretty darn close.  Did I mention it is simple?  For the ingredients listed here, I used about half a bottle of sauce.  It isn't as spicy as what you will eat in the restaurant.  It really is the basic sauce.  When I worked at Panda Express, I noticed the cook added red pepper flake.  I did this when I cooked it and it had the bite like in the restaurant.  It has good flavor, good consistency and reheats really well.  Casey and I enjoyed it a lot and will be purchasing it again.

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