Low Calorie General Tso Sauce Recipe
Healthy General Tso’s Chicken is simple, flavorful and perfect for a weeknight dinner. It’s a lighter take on the classic American take-out dish and will be loved by both kids and adults. It also happens to be gluten-free, dairy-free and paleo!
We are big fans of the fake-out take-out recipes here, but this lighter General Tso’s Chicken might be our new favorite! It uses wholesome ingredients and simple instructions and we are pretty sure the entire family will love it! General Tso’s is typically made by deep frying breaded chicken and then coating it with a pretty sweet sauce. While we still wanted to have some crispness to the chicken, we wanted to avoid frying it and we wanted to keep the sauce free of refined sweeteners and gluten while still maintain the same taste as traditional General Tso’s.
We use a few different ingredients (such as coconut aminos and gluten-free hoisin) to help achieve the same taste but made healthier. Serve General Tso’s Chicken with your favorite side, but we suggest cauliflower rice and if you’re feeling like you need some extra veggies in your life some broccoli would fit right in here.
General Tso Chicken (better Than Takeout!)
We turned to a few different products to help us keep this dish free from soy, refined sweeteners and gluten, which you will notice below. We used the Coconut Secrets brand of hoisin (which traditionally contains gluten) and coconut aminos, which is a soy-free soy sauce substitute. If you can’t find the gluten-free hoisin, feel free to use a gluten-free teriyaki sauce (we also recommend the brand Coconut Secrets for that). We do recommend using both honey and coconut sugar to get a similar taste to traditional General Tso’s.
Healthy General Tso's Chicken is simple, flavorful and perfect for a weeknight dinner. It's a lighter take on the classic American take-out dish and will loved by both kids and adults. It also happens to be be gluten-free, dairy-free and paleo!
Serving: 1 /4 recipe Calories: 478 kcal Carbohydrates: 44 g Protein: 48 g Fat: 15 g Saturated Fat: 2 g Sodium: 900 mg Fiber: 5 g Sugar: 20 gLove takeout, but hate the grease and high sodium? This Healthy General Tso Chicken recipe is better than takeout! High-protein chicken breasts are coated in garbanzo bean flour and almond meal and then sautéed in olive oil instead of being deep-fried. It’s a clean-eating, gluten-free meal for any night of the week!
Low Carb, Sugar Free General Tso's Chicken Recipe
Guys, I’m very excited to share this healthy version of General Tso’s Chicken with you today because it’s been one of the MOST requested #makeithealthy recipes on Instagram <– you should totes follow me BTW.
It’s the same look I used to get when I told people I had never seen “Grease” or all of the “Star Wars” movies.
Since so many of you requested that I make a healthy version of General Tso’s Chicken, though, I knew it was finally time to remedy this ridiculous secret.
Healthy General Tso's Chicken With Sautéed Snow Peas
Next, I enlisted the help of Dustin who, thankfully, didn’t judge me too harshly once I shared my secret. Plus, this meant he got to eat Chinese food with me.
We tried a few different General Tso’s Chicken recipes across Austin and came up with a game plan for how to make it healthy at home.
Let’s break it down. Obviously the biggest issue with your typical take-out General Tso’s Chicken recipe is that it’s deep-fried. Which means lots of bad oils. And all the breading. Which means all the refined flours.
Crock Pot General Tso's Chicken
It’s okay, though. We got this. Let’s just swap the heavy oils and deep frying with a light amount of olive oil. Awesome.
Aaaaaand this brings me back to clean eating. Can I just take a moment to say how much I LOVE clean eating?
It’s just so super duper awesomely cool to me that we can take the foods we love and make them into something that’s actually good for us.
Healthier General Tso's Chicken.
That being said, I want to thank you all for sending in your requests to make a healthy version of General Tso’s Chicken. I absolutely loved this challenge and the opportunity to take a comfort food for so many of you and turn it into something you can enjoy.
If you have a recipe that you’d like for me to #makeithealthy, I would SO love to hear from you. Last time, we made a Healthy Mac & Cheese and now a General Tso’s Chicken. Looking good, peeps!
General Tso’s Chicken is typically bought as a favorite Chinese takeout meal or served in a restaurant. The chicken is savory, and the sauce is spicy, sticky, and sweet.
Healthy General Tso's Chicken Recipe
Once I tried it (better late than never, I say!), General Tso Chicken became one of my favorite dishes when we went out for Chinese. Because I loved the flavors so much, I knew I had to make a healthy version so that I could enjoy it as often as I wanted.
General Tso’s Chicken is usually made with chicken thighs that are breaded and deep-fried. That means the dish typically has a high amount of fat and contains refined flour. I’ve taken care of all of that in my recipe, though.
Mouthwateringly delicious, this Healthy General Tso’s Chicken recipe is the best you’ll ever have. High-protein chicken breasts are coated in garbanzo bean flour and almond meal and then sautéed in olive oil instead of deep-fried. It’s a clean-eating, gluten-free meal for any night of the week!
Baked General Tso Chicken Recipe
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The Best General Tso's Chicken Recipe
Hey there! I’m Lacey Baier and I’d like to welcome you! I’m a mom of 4, cleanish lifestyle influencer, personal trainer, nutritionist, and the creator of this clean-eating blog and YouTube channel, and cleanish, my clean-eating supplement brand. My recipes have been published on Food Network, Good Morning America, FoxNews, Tastemade, Fitness Magazine, and much more. I live in Austin, Texas with my husband and four kiddos. Let’s get started!
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