Sweet and Sour Chicken

"Based on a recipe from FoodTV.com, with my own improvisations"
 
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Ready In:
35mins
Ingredients:
14
Serves:
6-8
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ingredients

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directions

  • Combine the juices, sugar, vinegar and stock in a small bowl.
  • Season the chicken cubes. Sauté in the vegetable oil until all pinkness is gone and the chicken is beginning to brown. Remove to a clean plate/bowl.
  • Add peppers and onion to sauté pan. Heat for 1-2 minutes.
  • Add the pineapple. Heat 1 minute.
  • Add the juice mixture. Simmer until sauce has reduced by a third.
  • Add cornstarch slurry slowly, stirring well, until sauce has a nice consistency.
  • Add chicken back to pan, and simmer 5 minutes.

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Reviews

  1. Very good! I made a small change to the preparation of the chicken - I prepared a pan with nonstick cooking spray and then rolled the cubes of chicken in a little bit of cornstarch seasoned with pepper (no salt) and then followed the recipe from there. It smelled wonderful too! Thanks for sharing!
     
  2. I made your dish tonight for dinner. My 5 year old asked for sweet n' sour chicken. I found your site on the web, plus I had all of the ingredients on hand. Instead of putting the chicken in the sauce, I dipped my chicken in a prepared pancake batter and deep fried it. I also added about 2T more of brown sugar to sweetened a little more. My daughter loved it and so did I. Thanks! Looking forward to trying some more recipes.
     
  3. I just made this recipe using canned chicken and it turned out delicious!
     
  4. I halved the recipe for the 3 of us tonight. I though this was a nice traditional recipe for S&S chicken. I like ketchup or tomato sauce in the sauce so I added about 1/4 of it as well. I also marinated the chicken in some soy sauce and corn starch prior to stir frying it as it gives the chicken more flavor...I do this with a lot of stir fry recipes. I did like that your recipe had lots of color with the red and green peppers and pineapple. Some recipes don't include both. Thanks for sharing.
     
  5. I'm no cook and i know i did everything wrong. There are too much liquid so my dish turned out soupy (even if i added the cornstarch). I think there's too much pineapple. And the chicken lacks taste. But the sauce is nice sweet & soury...
     
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I'm a 48 y/o gay Jewish man in the suburbs immediately north of New York City. I'm a general internist, practicing and teaching at a medical college north of NYC. I also earned a Masters in Public Health degree in 2013. After a Walt Disney World trip in Dec 2006 where I had to rent an electric scooter because I couldn't manage the walking, I decided to have gastric bypass surgery, which was done Feb 28, 2007. I lost 160 lbs (though I've gained back about 60 of that since). I can't eat as much as I used to, so I want every bite to be extra good!
 
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