Sweet and Sour Chicken

I am a lover of Asian food, Asian inspired food. Well just food in general.  Lol. So after a few back and forths of what I really would wanted to eat, I opted to do some sweet and sour chicken.

I am not a fan of frying. In fact ask me to install a roof during the hottest day of the year before you ask me to fry something. I can never get it right. Outside burnt, inside raw is usually the end result of me frying anything. Sorry, I can write code for a computer and come up with a recovery plan for a failed system but DO NOT ASK ME TO FRY anything.

So I was very happy to find a recipe for sweet and sour that was mostly oven baked.

Chicken prior to going into the oven

After searching further I realized there was no way to get away from that dreaded oil. This recipe still calls for frying but it is not a deep fry where you are extremely concerned about ensuring that a thick piece of meat is cooked through. I found this recipe from the Southern Coupon Junkies blog.




This chicken tasted amazing. The frying was oh so easy. It was easier for me to put the cornstarch in a ziploc bag and add my chicken pieces and shake to coat. Then dip pieces into the egg and add to the oil. I had one oopsy moment when I reached for more cornstarch and I really picked up baking soda. I was also making brownies that day and the white powder was laying around. It did not affect the few pieces that got coated in baking soda. Ha!!


For this recipe even though I cut down on the number of chicken breasts from the original recipe, I did not cut down on the sauce amount. It was enough for the two pieces I had. I also added pineapples, and different color bell peppers to the recipe


I had my chicken with some white jasmine rice. And the next day taste was just as great. It reheated well and smelt oh so yummy. My coworkers wanted to kidnap my food.


Thanks Southern Coupon Junkies for the recipe. I will be doing so much variations on this now!!