Sweet and sour chicken can be prepared as an entrée or a side dish for rice. This is an oriental dish with a blend of four flavors, namely, sweet, sour, salty, spicy. When the usual bland stuff bores you down, try this sweet and sour chicken recipe to add some color to your culinary pursuits!
Health Benefits:
Chicken is rich in protein and essential fats, which are good for the heart, skin, nails, and hair. The spices used in this recipe have anti-inflammatory properties, aid digestion, boost the immune system, and detoxifies the body. Pineapple is a rich source of dietary fiber, which helps improve gut health.
Ingredients
chicken breasts—sliced: 2
vegetable oil: 2 tbsp
red pepper—diced: 1/2 cup
green pepper—diced: 1/2 cup
cornstarch: 4 tsp
Plain water: 4 tsp
chunks of canned pineapple: 1 Cup
Fresh pineapple juice: ½ cup
Rice wine vinegar: 3 tbsp
Chicken stock: ¼ cup
unrefined sugar: 3 tbsp
salt to taste: enough to taste
How To Make Sweet Sour Chicken Recipe
- Add oil in a skillet over medium heat.
- Place chicken strips and toss until both sides roast completely.
- Transfer roasted chicken onto a plate.
- Mildly sauté green and red peppers in the remaining oil and let cook.
- Add pineapple chunks, pineapple juice, sugar, vinegar, and chicken stock and continue to stir. The contents boil and reduce.
- Mix cornstarch with 4 tsp of water, add to cooked pineapple, and let simmer.
- Add roasted chicken strips and let cook for 5 minutes until the dish thickens.
- Enjoy piping hot sweet and sour chicken with rice!
Apart from carbohydrates and proteins, this dish contains the goodness of pineapple and peppers. Pineapple is rich in vitamins, dietary fiber, pantothenic acid, folates, and minerals copper and manganese, thereby making its way into the one of the world’s healthiest foods. Peppers contain capsaicin, which aids in increasing metabolism.
Pack some smokin’ hot sweet-and-sour chicken in a Vaya Tyffyn kids’ lunch box and delight your kids at school!
- Originally, chickens were bred for cockfighting, not for food!
- Chickens are capable of dreaming!
- Unlike most animals, chickens are not colorblind!