Chinese
Sweet and Sour Chicken
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Cut the chicken into 1-inch pieces and season with the salt.
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Whisk the egg with the flour, cornstarch, and 1/3 cup water into a batter, then coat the chicken.
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Heat the frying oil to 350F and fry the chicken in batches until golden and crisp, about 5 minutes, then drain.
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Whisk the ketchup, rice vinegar, sugar, and soy sauce with 1/4 cup water in a clean skillet and simmer until glossy, about 3 minutes.
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Add the bell peppers, onion, and pineapple and cook until just tender, about 4 minutes.
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Fold in the fried chicken to coat and serve immediately over rice.
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Serve it with
A Chinese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Sweet and Sour Chicken, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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Something to sip
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Sweet and Sour Chicken carries gluten, eggs, and soy. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee) |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | Yes | Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee) |
| Soy | Yes | Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee) |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 480 kcal
- Protein
- 30 g
- Carbs
- 44 g
- Fat
- 20 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sugar
- 26 g
- Sodium
- 620 mg
- Saturated fat
- 3 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Sweet and Sour Chicken takes about 45 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a proper project. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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