I love sweet and sour chicken so decided to make my own. There are so many different recipes out there, so I looked at about 4 different ones and came up with something similar to those (and different in some ways too). I can't believe there are some that tell you to add food colouring though! LOL. I won't be doing that thanks. I like lots of veggies, so add or take if you want.
This will serve 4 adults well (it did 2 adults and 2 children with left overs for two more adults).
2 chicken breast cut into pieces
1-2 carrots julienne style
1 stalk celery chopped
handful of snow peas
1/2 red capsicum (pepper)
1/2 green capsicum
1/4 onion chopped
1 garlic clove chopped
1 cup cauliflower
large tin of pineapple (or you can use fresh pineapple like I did, around a cup or so I think).
Sauce
2 tablespoon tomato sauce (ketchup)
1 teaspoon ground ginger or fresh if you have it
1 garlic clove chopped finely
1/3 cup vinegar
1/4 cup brown sugar
2 tablespoon corn flour (starch)
3 tablespoons water
2 tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoons oyster sauce (you can just add 4 of soy sauce if you don't want to add oyster sauce).
Juice from the pineapple (probably 1/3 cup or you can do what I did and finely chopped the fresh pineapple and squeezed what I could from the remainders).
Mix until combined and set aside to add last minute to the chicken and vegetables.
1. Cook chicken in wok until almost brown, add onion and garlic.
2. Place veggies into wok and stir fry until almost cooked.
3. Add sauce and warm through.
4. Serve with your favourite rice.
Review- this was perfect for us. I made the tastes to suit us, so please, taste ALL THE TIME when you are cooking as you may prefer it sweeter, or with more sour. The kids loved it, they eat all those veggies I put in it. And they love rice.
