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Easiest Way to Make Homemade Healthy Sweet & Sour Chicken

 ·  β˜• 3 min read  ·  ✍️ Katharine Bennett

Healthy Sweet & Sour Chicken
Healthy Sweet & Sour Chicken

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, healthy sweet & sour chicken. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Healthy Sweet & Sour Chicken is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Healthy Sweet & Sour Chicken is something which I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have healthy sweet & sour chicken using 17 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Healthy Sweet & Sour Chicken:
  1. Prepare 5 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
  2. Take 5 ml veg oil
  3. Get 1 medium onion, cut into 12 wedges
  4. Take 3 peppers, red, green, orange or yellow, deseeded and cut into chunks of about 3cm/1ΒΌin
  5. Take 1 x 225g/8oz can water chestnuts
  6. Prepare 1 x 425g/15oz can pineapple chunks in natural juice drained
  7. Take 2 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed
  8. Take 25 g/1oz piece fresh root ginger, peeled and finely grated
  9. Make ready freshly ground black pepper
  10. Make ready Sauce
  11. Take Juice from 2 tins pineapples approx 300ml
  12. Get 50 g cornflour
  13. Make ready 4 tbsp dark soy sauce
  14. Get 4 tbsp white wine vinegar
  15. Prepare 1 tbsp granulated sweetener
  16. Take 4 tbsp tomato ketchup
  17. Prepare 1 tsp dried chilli flakes
Instructions to make Healthy Sweet & Sour Chicken:
  1. To make the sauce, drain both the pineapple tins in a sieve over a bowl and keep all the juice – you should have about 250ml. Add 300ml water, then stir in the soy sauce, vinegar, sweetener, ketchup and chilli flakes until thoroughly combined. Set aside. Put the cornflour in a bowl and stir in approx three tablespoons (or more) if required of water to make a smooth paste.
  2. Cut each chicken breast into eight or nine even pieces. Heat the oil in a large non-stick frying pan or wok and stir-fry the onion and peppers for two minutes over a high heat. Drain the water chestnuts and cut them in half horizontally.
  3. Add chicken to the pan and stir-fry for two minutes until coloured on all sides. Add the garlic, ginger, pineapple chunks and water chestnuts and stir-fry for 30–60 seconds.
  4. Give the cornflour and water mixture a good stir and add it to the pan with the chicken and vegetables. Stir well, season with some ground black pepper and bring to a simmer. Cook for 4–6 minutes until the sauce is thickened and glossy and the chicken is tender and cooked throughout, turning the chicken and vegetables a few times. Serve with a small portion of rice.
  5. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

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