Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, sweet-and-sour chicken. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Chinese-style sweet and sour chicken, stir-fried with bell peppers and pineapple chunks. If you add cold chicken to a hot pan, not only will it stick to the pan, but the heat of the pan will be so busy warming up the chicken that it won't have a chance to actually sear the meat right away. This Sweet and Sour Chicken combines crispy chicken with chunks of onion, bell pepper and pineapple in a sticky homemade sauce.
Sweet-and-sour chicken is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Sweet-and-sour chicken is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook sweet-and-sour chicken using 15 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Sweet-and-sour chicken:
- Make ready 1 1/2 lb Chicken Breast, cut into chunks
- Make ready 1 cup Cornstarch
- Make ready 2 Eggs, whisked
- Make ready 1 Green Bell Pepper, roughly chopped
- Prepare 1 Yellow Onion, roughly chopped
- Take 1 Red Bell Pepper, roughly chopped
- Take Frying Oil
- Prepare For the sauce
- Prepare 1/2 cup Water
- Take 1/2 cup Ketchup
- Make ready 1/3 cup Rice Wine Vinegar
- Get 1/2 Cup Brown Sugar
- Take 2 Tbsp Granulated Sugar
- Get 3 Tbsp Soy Sauce
- Make ready 3 Cloves Garlic, minced
This healthy and crispy sweet and sour chicken recipe is so delicious with sweet and sour sauce! For the best sweet and sour chicken, please following my cooking tips below: The combination of plum sauce, Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce and Chinese rice vinegar make the sauce tastes. Absolutely the best sweet and sour chicken recipe I've ever tried. My husband and I thought it was delicious.
Steps to make Sweet-and-sour chicken:
- Add some frying oil to a large cast Iron skillet and preheat until hot, meanwhile, preheat your oven to 325 degrees F.
- Dip your chicken pieces in the beaten eggs and dredge in the cornstarch making sure to shake off any excess bits and then add to the hot oil and fry until crispy on both sides, only takes about a minute, remove to a paper towel lined plate and set aside.
- Add the chicken, peppers and onions in a baking dish (make sure your baking dish isn’t too big or you’ll risk burning the sauce, the dish should hold everything nice and snug) then in a measuring cup or bowl whisk together all of the ingredients for the sauce and pour over the chicken and vegetables.
- Bake for about an hour, making sure you give it a stir every 15 to 20 minutes.
- NOTE: You can skip the oven method if you want your chicken really crispy, all you do is add the sauce to a clean large skillet and cook until the sauce thickens, then stir your chicken in at the last minute. (Plus it’s easier cleanup!) I used frozen peppers and onions it was out of season for peppers when I made this.
One comment about the directions: the This recipe is authentic and tastes very similar to the restaraunt style sweet & sour chicken. I probably will not make it again though because of the. An Easier, Healthier Sweet and Sour Chicken. Instead of battering and deep-frying, you'll pan-fry the cornstarch-coated chicken until browned on the outside. It won't be as crispy as deep-fried chicken, but this method uses a lot less oil, there's less scary spattering.
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