Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, sweet and sour chicken. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little 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 on my.
Sweet and Sour Chicken is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Sweet and Sour Chicken is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook sweet and sour chicken using 31 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Sweet and Sour Chicken:
- Prepare For the chicken:
- Prepare 500 ml vegetable oil for frying the chicken
- Take 250 gr boneless chicken thigh meat, diced 3x3 cm
- Prepare 1/2 tsp salt
- Take 1/4 tsp white pepper powder
- Take For the batter:
- Prepare 4 Tbsp all purpose flour
- Prepare 60 ml ice water
- Take For the coating:
- Take 4 Tbsp all purpose flour
- Take 1 Tbsp rice flour
- Prepare 1 Tbsp cornstarch
- Get 1/4 tsp white pepper powder
- Take For the sauce: (mix together in a small bowl)
- Get 3 Tbsp tomato ketchup
- Take 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
- Make ready 1 Tbsp oyster sauce
- Get 1 Tbsp honey
- Get 1/4 tsp white pepper powder
- Get Other ingredients:
- Get 2 Tbsp vegetable oil
- Make ready 3 cloves garlic, minced
- Prepare 1/4 onion, diced
- Make ready 1/2 red chili pepper, diagonally cut
- Take 1/2 cucumber, cut out the seeds, diagonally cut
- Prepare 150 gr pineapple, sliced
- Prepare 1/2 red bell pepper, sliced
- Get 1 tsp rice vinegar
- Get 50 ml water
- Make ready 1 tsp cornstarch mixed with 3 Tbsp water
- Prepare 1 stalk green onion, diagonally cut
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Steps to make Sweet and Sour Chicken:
- Season the chicken with salt and pepper. Set aside for 15 minutes.
- Dip the chicken into the batter ingredients. Coat evenly with flour mixture. Shake the excess flour off.
- Deep fry the chicken until crispy and golden brown. Remove from the pan. Set aside.
- For the sauce: - Heat the vegetable oil in a wok over medium heat. Sauté garlic and onion, until fragrant.
- Add sauce ingredients and white pepper powder. Pour water. Mix well. Bring it to boil.
- Add red bell pepper, cucumber, and pineapple. Mix well.
- Add rice vinegar. Add the cornstarch mixture and continue to cook until thickened. Test the taste.
- Add green onion and mix well again.
- Toss in the chicken and do a few quick stirs.
- Serve immediately with warm steamed rice. Yum! 😋
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 amount of work. Skip the take out - this Sweet and Sour Chicken Recipe is so good that you'll put it on the permanent rotation. So I decided to have lunch at work that day. I chose out an egg roll and some sweet and sour chicken, then went to my desk to eat - only to be completely disappointed.
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