Sweet and Sour Chicken Recipe

1      Reviews by:    Mildred Bodtker   Sweet and Sour Chicken Recipe is a very interesting and nice combination of sweet and sour to go with delicious chicken and rice to make a very tasty, stir fry, sweet and sour chicken recipe. Food Category:    Chicken and Fowl Cuisine Origin:    Japanese    Servings:2 Nutrition facts:788 calories34.1 grams fat Print Preview Rate This Recipe Prep Time:   15 Minutes Cook Time:   15 Minutes Total Time:   30 Minutes

INGREDIENTS

• For Sauce:
• 3/4 cup chicken stock
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup vinegar
• 1/4 cup ketchup
• 1 tablespoon sherry
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• 1/4 cup pineapple juice
• For Chicken:
• 1 chicken breast, boned, skinned, and partially frozen
• 1 clove garlic
• 2 slices fresh ginger, each slice cut in quarters (1 teaspoon minced)
• 3 tablespoons peanut oil
• 1 green pepper, cut in 1-inch pieces
• 1 tomato, cut in 1-inch pieces
• 1/2 cup pineapple chunks, drained (reserving liquid)

DIRECTIONS

• For sauce, combine stock, sugars, vinegar, ketchup, and sherry in a saucepan. Bring to a boil, stirring to dissolve sugar. Blend cornstarch, soy sauce, and pineapple juice. Stir into mixture in saucepan and cook over low heat until thickened.
• For chicken, using slicing disc of food processor, slice meat. Set aside. Using steel blade, mince garlic and ginger root by starting machine and adding ingredients through feed tube. Set aside.
• Heat 2 tablespoons peanut oil in a wok. Add minced garlic and ginger root and stir-fry a few seconds. Add sliced chicken and stir-fry until just tender. Remove from pan and set aside.
• Heat 1 tablespoon peanut oil in wok and stir-fry green peppers 2 to 3 minutes. Add tomato, pineapple, and chicken and stir-fry only to heat through. Remove to a serving dish and spoon sauce over the top. Serve at once with rice.

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