Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, sweet-and-sour chicken. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Sweet and Sour Chicken is a classic Chinese takeout option most of us are too afraid to make at home. Something about woks and cooking with pineapple make it intimidating for most, but it is so much easier to make than you would think. Of the classic Chinese Recipes that most people ask for.
Sweet-and-sour chicken is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Sweet-and-sour chicken is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this 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 that.
The ingredients needed to make Sweet-and-sour chicken:
- Take 1 1/2 lb Chicken Breast, cut into chunks
- Prepare 1 cup Cornstarch
- Get 2 Eggs, whisked
- Prepare 1 Green Bell Pepper, roughly chopped
- Prepare 1 Yellow Onion, roughly chopped
- Prepare 1 Red Bell Pepper, roughly chopped
- Prepare Frying Oil
- Make ready For the sauce
- Take 1/2 cup Water
- Take 1/2 cup Ketchup
- Make ready 1/3 cup Rice Wine Vinegar
- Prepare 1/2 Cup Brown Sugar
- Take 2 Tbsp Granulated Sugar
- Take 3 Tbsp Soy Sauce
- Take 3 Cloves Garlic, minced
Make your favorite takeouts at home! Serve the sweet and sour chicken with plain rice for a satisfying dinner. 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.
Instructions 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.
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. Sweet and Sour Chicken is made by batter-frying chicken and then tossing it in a quick and easy sweet and sour sauce. If you love Chinese food but But really, who doesn't love crispy fried chicken with that classic sweet and sour combo?
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