Sweet & Sour Chicken

I've been craving chinese for a little while now. The other night, I found an orange chicken recipe that looked amazing and was super easy. Unfortunately, after I cooked it, it turned out to be disgusting. (No, really...even my husband threw away his plate of food and he likes EVERYTHING). Yeah...epic failure.

So, to redeem myself, I decided to try chinese again, this time doing sweet and sour chicken. 

SUCCESS!!

It was really, really good. I was pleased with the way it turned out and will definitely be doing this meal again.

Sweet & Sour Chicken

PREP TIME/COOK TIME: 30 minutes - 1 hour

SERVING SIZE: Two

INGREDIENTS:

2 chicken breasts, cut into squares

1 egg

2/3 cups flour

1/4 cup water

1 tsp salt

1 1/2 tsp baking powder

Sweet & Sour Sauce (store bought/homemade)

1 green pepper

1 red pepper

pineapple chunks

Vegetable Oil

Reccommended: Rice

*NOTE: I used a store-bought sweet and sour sauce for this recipe. I know, boring, but with my last disastrous Chinese meal mishap, I decided to go store bought instead of homemade. Eventually, I'll find a really good sauce, but for now I really liked "Kikkoman Sweet & Sour Sauce" (pictured below). I thought it was really tasty. You'll find it where the soy sauce and teryaki sauce is in the super market.

Onto the RECIPE!!

1. Pre-heat a fryer or skillet-pan with oil in it for frying to 350 degrees. I use vegetable oil, because it is the cheapest.

2. Mix together the egg, flour, water, salt, and baking powder. The consistency will be pretty thick.

3. Take the chicken that you've already cut into squares and dip it into the batter. Make sure that the chicken piece is completely covered in the batter. The batter won't stick to the chicken that well at first.

4. Put the chicken into the oil and fry on both sides until golden brown.

5. When the chicken is golden brown, put on a paper towel to let the oil drain off.

MEANWHILE

6. As your chicken is frying, cut up your bell peppers and let saute in a frying pan.

7. Add a little bit of sauce and a little bit of water and mix the peppers around.

8. Throw in about a handful of pineapple chunks (I poured in a splash of the pineapple juice, just for good measure)

9. Add the chicken into the frying pan, along with some more sauce and a little bit more water. In the end, I used up about half of my bottle of the sweet and sour sauce and in between 1/8 and 1/4 cup of water.

10. Let simmer in the sauce until the peppers are soft, the pineapples are warm, and the sauce is heated through.

11. Serve with rice and enjoy!

My husband and I both loved this meal, and I have a feeling I'm going to be craving it often. The thing I love the most about it is the chicken. This breading is probably my favorite breading on chicken EVER! I felt like it was so authentic. If you don't like sweet and sour sauce, I recommend trying to find another sauce you like better, like orange (if you can actually find a good one...if you're looking at one from Pinterest, I would NOT recommend it) or lemon. Try out some different things and see what you like the best!

Hope you all enjoy!

-Chef Lyndsie