I’ve always judged a Chinese restaurant by   two things:  its Hot-Sour soup and its General Tso Chicken.  These are, to me to two critical dishes a restaurant has to get right–to my taste buds–to get me to come back.  Tough standards, but it’s my money after all, and if I don’t like those two dishes, I won’t go back.  Replicating these dishes at home are extremely difficult, but not impossible.  Replicating either one for a family on Weight Watchers is nigh on impossible.  However, I stumbled on this recipe on one of the Weight-Watchers sites, and tried it tonight for the women.  Success!  My calculator (okay, okay, it’s hers) tells me that the way I am making this dish, it clocks in at a fabulous 6 points on the Points-plus scale they use there.  I’ve made some alterations to the recipe to lower the point value, and the dish is perfectly acceptable to me for a short-notice meal made from on-hand ingredients.  It’s not an authentic recipe that would please General Tso, but my family gobbled it all up, and I will make it

again.  Only a half hour start to finish, and pretty darn good.  Try this at home.

If you want to make it just a bit more authentic and a point or two higher in WW value, , use boneless, skinless chicken thighs instead of breasts, and regular brown sugar instead of Splenda brand.   Otherwise, its a pretty good home-made chinese supper.