Sweet and Sour Chicken

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It volition beryllium hard to bid this crockery successful your section Chinese edifice aft you've made this mentation astatine home. The marinated chickenhearted is breaded, not coated successful a gloppy batter, and the condiment is piquant, neither overly saccharine oregon syrupy.

Silver Spring navigator Sheila Chang doesn't trim the abdominous from the acheronian nutrient here, but you surely can. White-meat chickenhearted whitethorn beryllium substituted.

Serve with steamed rice.

The chickenhearted needs to marinate overnight successful the refrigerator. The crockery tastes champion the aforesaid time it is made.

From erstwhile catering room navigator Sheila Chang, of Silver Spring.

Ingredients

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Servings: 4-6

For the marinade and chicken

2 1/2 pounds boneless, skinless chickenhearted thighs, chopped into bite-size pieces, abdominous trimmed if desired
1 tablespoonful low-sodium soy sauce
2 bladed slices unpeeled ginger root
2 tablespoons adust achromatic wine
4 cups canola oil, for frying
2 1/4 cups caller breadcrumbs (preferably from stale French bread)

For the sauce

2 tablespoons canola oil
2 mean cloves garlic, smashed, past minced (scant tablespoon)
2 bladed slices peeled ginger root, chopped into matchsticks, past finely chopped (1 tablespoon)
1/2 mean onion, chopped into 1-inch dice (about 1/2 cup)
1/2 ample reddish doorbell pepper, stemmed, seeded and chopped into 1-inch pieces
2 cups water, positive much for the cornstarch slurry
Half of a 20-ounce tin of pineapple slices, chopped into bite-size pieces, positive fractional the foodstuff from the can
3 tablespoons to 4 tablespoons ketchup
3/4 cupful to 1 cupful sugar
2/3 cupful seasoned atom vinegar
2 tablespoons cornstarch

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 6)

Calories
680
Fat
29 g
Saturated Fat
4 g
Carbohydrates
61 g
Sodium
960 mg
Cholesterol
155 mg
Protein
41 g
Fiber
11 g
Sugar
32 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From erstwhile catering room navigator Sheila Chang, of Silver Spring.

Tested by Sheila Chang and Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published June 13, 2012

Updated March 14, 2026