The Pinterest recipes I looked at these two days were Gluten Free Hoisin Sauce at the Gluten Free Lifesaver, and then a Gluten free version of General Tso's Tofu from Grumpy's Honey Bunch, which required a GF hoisin sauce to make it work.
It turned out pretty-pretty!
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| Mid-meal, as my son ate so fast I couldn't get another picture! |
Trying to make more complicated recipes for my son that he will eat, as he is both a growing boy who needs a ton of calories, and doesn't have as many food restrictions as I do.
The Ingredients:
With this being for my son, all I had to do was make sure everything was GF, which mean making a GF hoisin sauce, which I had all the ingredients for, and using that and a GF soy sauce for those two ingredients in the original General Tso's recipe. It turned out great.
The Challenges:
Nothing except having to make the sauces ahead of time, so planning issues, I suppose.
What I did:
1. Made the recipe pretty much exactly as it was.
Why did I make these choices:
I always used to love the super bad for you General Tso's at various Americanized Chinese restaurants, even Panda Express, so finding a recipe for it made me feel really nostalgic.
The result:
Great. I felt bad that my son ate it all and still wanted more!
How would I change this:
Nothing, this was awesome.
Would I make it again:
absolutely
absolutely
Allergy issues:
Oh man, it has tons of allergens. It has soy, grains, sulfites, peanuts, corn, high histamine, and so on. It's pretty much gluten, dairy, and egg free, and that's about it.
EDIT: 4/12/17
After making this a few times with some complaints, I have realized that the first time I made it, I used less sweetener than called for, because I misread the recipe. So, the recipe itself is a bit sweet, for my tastes, and I deliberately lower the sugar content now.
The original author of the General Tso's has altered the recipe, so now the sugar content is lower, and some of the other ingredients seem a bit different. But, still overall it's likely good.
Very good
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