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Sweet and sour chicken

  • Serves 4
  • Cooking time: 45 mins - 1 hour

Here's a flavour combination that everyone loves. Add that to a dish filled with fantastic fresh vegetables and you can't go wrong. If you prefer to do it yourself, our sweet and sour chicken recipe goes into more detail about making your own sweet and sour sauce. That doesn’t mean it’s much harder though — most of the ingredients can be found in your fridge or pantry, and it’s only a matter of mixing them together.

Ingredients

  • 1 can pineapple pieces in juice (440g), drained with juice reserved

  • 2 tbsp cornflour

  • 2 tbsp soy sauce

  • 2 tbsp tomato sauce

  • 2 tbsp white vinegar

  • 1 tbsp oil

  • 2 cloves garlic, crushed

  • 1 tbsp crushed ginger

  • 500 g chicken breast, skinned and thinly sliced

  • 2 carrots, sliced

  • 1 broccoli, cut into bite sized pieces

  • 1 capsicum, sliced

  • 2-3 spring onions, sliced

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Method

  1. For the sauce: whisk the pineapple juice and cornflour in a small bowl until there are no lumps. Add the soy sauce, tomato sauce and vinegar and stir. Set the sauce aside

  2. Heat oil over a medium heat in a frying pan

  3. Add garlic and ginger and stir-fry for one minute

  4. Add chicken and stir-fry for 5 minutes

  5. Add carrots, broccoli, and capsicum

  6. Stir through the sauce and pineapple pieces. Bring to the boil and simmer for 10 minutes

  7. Add spring onions and serve.