Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, healthy sweet & sour chicken. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have healthy sweet & sour chicken using 17 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Healthy Sweet & Sour Chicken:
- Get 5 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- Take 5 ml veg oil
- Make ready 1 medium onion, cut into 12 wedges
- Prepare 3 peppers, red, green, orange or yellow, deseeded and cut into chunks of about 3cm/1¼in
- Make ready 1 x 225g/8oz can water chestnuts
- Take 1 x 425g/15oz can pineapple chunks in natural juice drained
- Take 2 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed
- Prepare 25 g/1oz piece fresh root ginger, peeled and finely grated
- Prepare freshly ground black pepper
- Get Sauce
- Prepare Juice from 2 tins pineapples approx 300ml
- Make ready 50 g cornflour
- Make ready 4 tbsp dark soy sauce
- Make ready 4 tbsp white wine vinegar
- Take 1 tbsp granulated sweetener
- Make ready 4 tbsp tomato ketchup
- Get 1 tsp dried chilli flakes
Instructions to make Healthy Sweet & Sour Chicken:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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