Rating:
★★★★★ 2 votes
Ingredients
- 1 lb
- chicken breasts, boneless
- 1 tsp
- ginger, finely chopped
- 1
- egg white
- 1/2 tsp
- salt
- 2 tsp
- cornstarch
- 1/2 c
- vegetable oil
- 6
- carrots
- 12 oz
- pineapple chunks
- 2 tsp
- sherry
- 2 tsp
- soy sauce, light
- 1 Tbsp
- vinegar
- 1 tsp
- sugar
- 1 Tbsp
- cornstarch
- 1 tsp
- salt
How to Make Easy Sweet and Sour Chicken
- 1Cut up the chicken into bite-sized chunks.
- 2Combine ginger, egg white, about 1/2 teaspoons each salt and cornstarch and about 1 teaspoon oil.
- 3Add the chicken chunks and stir until the chicken is well-coated.
- 4Wash green pepper and discard seeds and stem, cut into strips about 1 x 1/4 inches.
- 5Peel carrots if they are thick, cut in half lengthwise. Cut diagonally into pieces about 1 inch long.
- 6Cook the carrots in boiling water for 3-5 minutes, depending how crunchy you like your carrots.
- 7Drain pineapple chunks, saving about 1/2 cup of the juice.
- 8Prepare the sweet and sour sauce by mixing sherry, soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, reserved pineapple juice, about 1 tablespoon cornstarch and about 1 teaspoon salt.
- 9Stir well and set aside.
- 10Heat about 3 tablespoon of oil very hot in a wok or deep cast iron pan.
- 11Peanut oil is best since it has a high smoking point. Stir-fry the chicken by putting a small batch (e.g., 5 pieces) of the cubed chicken in the wok and stirring continuously until golden brown.
- 12Remove to a dish. Repeat until all the chicken has been cooked, adding small amounts of oil as it gets used up.
- 13Heat about 1 tablespoon oil in an empty wok.
- 14Stir fry the parboiled carrots and the green pepper for 30 seconds.
- 15Add the chicken and the pineapple chunks to the vegetables in the wok. Stir 1 minute or until well mixed and reheated.
- 16Add sweet and sour sauce to wok.
- 17Stir until thickened. Serve with rice.
- 18I serve this recipe to company all the time and am amazed at how many people don't realize that you can cook Chinese food at home. It is always a big hit. The recipe works equally well with lean pork, tofu cubes, or soy beans instead of the chicken.
