Add a bit of flavour with our Sweet and Sour Chicken Recipe

Exactly like your favourite dish from the takeaway round the corner, but with less calories and that added charm that only home-cooked food can provide. Sweet and Sour Chicken is an ideal dish for all year round and an ultimate family pleaser. Tingle your tastebuds with our new recipe…

Prep time

10mins

Cooking time

20-30 mins

Cooking level

Easy

Ingredients

50g Sugar
300 ml of water (to include the juice from the pineapple tin)
100 ml White vinegar
2 heaped tsp corn flour
Red/yellow food colouring (or for a natural alternative, you can use a couple of sprigs of saffron like I did not too much though as we don’t want to add saffron flavour)
2 large chicken breast sliced
Corn starch batter to cover chicken (or you can use whatever batter
recipe you normally use)
Oil to fry chicken
2 carrots sliced
1 red pepper sliced
1 small tin of pineapple
2 spring onion sliced

Directions

To make the sweet and sour sauce

Mix the Sugar, water, vinegar, 2 tea spoons of cornstarch and food colouring. Add more sugar or vinegar depending on your taste, sweeter or sharper.

Gently fry the carrot and pepper until soft. Tip in the pineapple and stir. Taste, and add more sugar or vinegar if needed.

Add the sauce to the pan, bring to boil (if sauce is not thick enough add remaining cornstarch).

To make the chicken Chicken.

Coat the chicken in batter, fry on medium heat until chicken is well cooked.

For a healthier alternative cook chicken first and then dip in to batter and quickly fry until batter is just cooked.

Add chicken to sauce, and throw on the spring onion.

Voila you are done!

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