Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, sweet and sour chicken. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Sweet and sour Chicken is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Sweet and sour Chicken is something which I have loved my whole life.
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.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook sweet and sour chicken using 15 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Sweet and sour Chicken:
- Prepare 2 cup boneless chicken- cubed
- Make ready 1 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
- Make ready 1 1/2 cup water, plus extra for snow peas
- Take 1 (10 oz) package snow peas
- Take 6 tbsp cornstarch
- Take 1/2 cup vinegar
- Make ready 1 (20 oz) can pineapple chunks (save juice)
- Make ready 1 large red pepper, sliced
- Prepare 4 oz sliced mushrooms
- Take 1 small jar of maraschino cherries
- Make ready 1 tsp almond extract (rum extract can be substituted)
- Get 1 salt - to taste
- Make ready 1 dash sugar
- Prepare 1 toasted almonds
- Take 1 You can add whatever vegies you like
You could use a mix of boneless dark and white meat, makes the chicken pieces moist and juicy. Sweet and sour chicken is a popular Chinese recipe. 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 like the best Chinese restaurants. Absolutely the best sweet and sour chicken recipe I've ever tried.
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.*
My husband and I thought it was delicious. 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. You've tasted sweet and sour chicken at the takeaway, but you can make it far better at home and it's much healthier! 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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