Step-by-Step Guide to Make Homemade Sweet & Sour Chicken

Sweet & Sour Chicken
Sweet & Sour Chicken

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, sweet & sour chicken. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have sweet & sour chicken using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Sweet & Sour Chicken:
  1. Make ready large shallot
  2. Prepare yellow bell pepper
  3. Take red bell pepper
  4. Get canned pineapple chunks (cut into quarters), reserve 1/4cup juice for sauce
  5. Make ready boneless skinless chicken breasts (about 1/4-1/2 lb.)
  6. Prepare cooking oil
  7. Get garlic, small diced
  8. Prepare fresh ground cinnamon
  9. Make ready Salt and Pepper to taste
  10. Take ketchup
  11. Take brown sugar
  12. Get rice vinegar
  13. Take soy sauce
  14. Make ready cornstarch
  15. Prepare chives, chopped
  16. Get cooked rice
Instructions to make Sweet & Sour Chicken:
  1. Preheat the oven to 400ºF. Cut the onion, bell peppers, and chicken breasts into one-inch pieces. Drain the pineapple well, keeping the juice for the sauce. Place the onion, bell pepper, chicken, and pineapple chunks on a large sheet pan in a single layer to prevent the chicken and vegetables from piling on top of each other. They need a little room to brown correctly
  2. Drizzle the cooking oil over the ingredients on the sheet pan, followed by the garlic powder, ground cinnamon, and a pinch or two of salt and pepper. Toss the chicken, bell peppers, onions, and pineapple until they are evenly coated in oil and spices.
  3. Bake the chicken and vegetables in the oven for about 40 minutes, or until they are slightly browned on the edges. Stir halfway through the baking time to redistribute the heat and allow excess moisture to evaporate.
  4. While the chicken and vegetables are baking, prepare the sauce. In a small saucepot whisk together the reserved pineapple juice, ketchup, brown sugar, vinegar, soy sauce, and cornstarch until the cornstarch is fully dissolved. Heat the mixture over medium flame, stirring often, until it begins to simmer. When it begins to simmer the cornstarch will begin to gel and thicken the sauce. Once the sauce has thickened to a glaze, remove it from the heat and set it aside until ready to use.
  5. When the chicken and vegetables have finished baking, remove them from the oven and pour the prepared sauce over top. Stir until everything is coated in sauce.
  6. Serve the sweet and sour chicken over cooked rice with chopped chives sprinkled over top.

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