Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, sweet and sour chicken. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Sweet and Sour Chicken is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Sweet and Sour Chicken is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
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 get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have sweet and sour chicken using 19 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Sweet and Sour Chicken:
- Get 450 gram boneless skinless chicken thighs
- Make ready 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- Take 1 egg beaten
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Make ready 1/2 cup cornstarch
- Get For the sauce
- Get 2 tablespoon ketchup
- Take 2 tablespoon rice vinegar
- Prepare 2 tablespoon dark soy sauce
- Make ready 3 tablespoon brown sugar
- Make ready 2 tablespoon water
- Make ready 1/2 tablespoon cornstarch
- Get For the stir fry
- Get 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- Prepare 4 garlic cloves minced
- Take 1 inch ginger minced
- Get 1 medium red onion chopped
- Get 150 gram botton mushrooms quartered
- Prepare 1 bell pepper chopped
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.
Instructions to make Sweet and Sour Chicken:
- Mix all the sauce ingredients in a small bowl and set aside.
- Combine chicken pieces, vegetable oil, and salt in a big bowl. Mix well and let marinate for 10 to 20 minutes.
- Add the beaten egg into the bowl with the chicken. Stir to mix well. Add cornstarch. Stir to coat chicken, until it forms an uneven coating with a little dry cornstarch left unattached.
- Heat oil in a heavy duty skillet until hot, until it just starts to smoke. Add chicken all at once and spread out into a single layer in th
- Cook without touching the chicken for 2 to 3 minutes, or until the bottom turns golden. Flip to brown the other side, 2 to 3 minutes. Transfer chicken to a big plate and remove the pan from the stove. Let cool for 2 to 3 minutes.
- Place the pan back onto the stove and turn to medium heat. You should still have 1 to 2 tablespoons oil in the pan. Add garlic and ginger. Cook and stir a few times until it releases it's fragrance. Add mushrooms and let them sweat it out for a minute.
- Stir the sauce again to dissolve the cornstarch completely. Pour into the pan. Stir and cook until it thickens, when you can draw a line on the bottom with a spatula without the sauce running back immediately.
- Add back the chicken pieces, onion, and bell peppers. Stir to coat chicken with sauce, 30 seconds. Transfer everything to a plate immediately.
- Serve hot as main over steamed rice.
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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