Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to my recipe site. 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 little bit tasty. 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 favored of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Sweet and sour Chicken is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have 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:
- Prepare 2 cup boneless chicken- cubed
- Take 1 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
- Make ready 1 1/2 cup water, plus extra for snow peas
- Prepare 1 (10 oz) package snow peas
- Get 6 tbsp cornstarch
- Make ready 1/2 cup vinegar
- Prepare 1 (20 oz) can pineapple chunks (save juice)
- Make ready 1 large red pepper, sliced
- Take 4 oz sliced mushrooms
- Make ready 1 small jar of maraschino cherries
- Prepare 1 tsp almond extract (rum extract can be substituted)
- Make ready 1 salt - to taste
- Take 1 dash sugar
- Take 1 toasted almonds
- Make ready 1 You can add whatever vegies you like
Sweet and sour chicken is a popular Chinese recipe. Chinese sweet and sour is a cooking style that is easy, delicious and everyone's favorite. The dish comes complete with crispy fried chicken cubes with mouthwatering sweet and sour sauce. An Easier, Healthier Sweet and Sour Chicken.
Steps to make Sweet and sour Chicken:
- In a large saucepan cook water, brown sugar, cornstarch, 1/2 amount of pineapple juice in can and 2-3 tsp cherry juice from jar on medium to combine. Turn down to low.
- In a saute pan, cook chicken in oil and then add the mushrooms and pepper slices. In a small saucepan cook the peapods in a little water with salt and sugar til tender.
- Combine the chicken and veggies in the sauce and add 1/2 the can of pineapple chunks and 10-20 cherries.
- Serve over rice and top with toasted almond slivers
- Mix cold water with 6 Tbsp cornstarch stirring to make thick liquid. Pour into the brown sugar mixture and stir continuosly to thicken.*
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. Homemade crispy sweet and sour chicken with a better-than-takeout sauce made from store cupboard ingredients! I love sweet and sour chicken from the takeaway, but there are a couple of things I don't love: The sauce is too bright orange - like glow in the dark orange. Absolutely the best sweet and sour chicken recipe I've ever tried.
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