Sweet-and-sour chicken
Sweet-and-sour chicken

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, sweet-and-sour chicken. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chinese-style sweet and sour chicken, stir-fried with bell peppers and pineapple chunks. Just like the Shrimp Fried Rice, a very hot pan is essential to making this Sweet and Sour Chicken so that the chicken can sear quickly. Sweet and Sour Chicken is a classic Chinese takeout option most of us are too afraid to make at home.

Sweet-and-sour chicken is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Sweet-and-sour chicken is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook sweet-and-sour chicken using 15 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Sweet-and-sour chicken:
  1. Prepare 1 1/2 lb Chicken Breast, cut into chunks
  2. Make ready 1 cup Cornstarch
  3. Make ready 2 Eggs, whisked
  4. Take 1 Green Bell Pepper, roughly chopped
  5. Make ready 1 Yellow Onion, roughly chopped
  6. Get 1 Red Bell Pepper, roughly chopped
  7. Prepare Frying Oil
  8. Prepare For the sauce
  9. Make ready 1/2 cup Water
  10. Take 1/2 cup Ketchup
  11. Take 1/3 cup Rice Wine Vinegar
  12. Take 1/2 Cup Brown Sugar
  13. Take 2 Tbsp Granulated Sugar
  14. Take 3 Tbsp Soy Sauce
  15. Take 3 Cloves Garlic, minced

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. Learn how to cook Chinese sweet and sour chicken recipe from a native Asian cooking enthusiast.

Steps to make Sweet-and-sour chicken:
  1. Add some frying oil to a large cast Iron skillet and preheat until hot, meanwhile, preheat your oven to 325 degrees F.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Bake for about an hour, making sure you give it a stir every 15 to 20 minutes.
  5. 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.

Absolutely the best sweet and sour chicken recipe I've ever tried. My husband and I thought it was delicious. 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. Skip the take out - this Sweet and Sour Chicken Recipe is so good that you'll put it on the permanent rotation.

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