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Sweet and Sour Chicken

Tonights dinner? Sweet and sour chicken! Do you want to learn how to make the yummiest homemade Chinese food? There is only a few simple easy steps. If you’re looking for other homemade Chinese food recipes, I have several of my favorites in my latest cookbook, Making Messes with Scarlett!

Course Main Course
Cuisine Chinese
Keyword Sweet and Sour Chicken
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Servings 4 people

Ingredients

  • 3-5 breasts chicken
  • .5 tsp salt
  • .5 tsp pepper
  • 1 cup cornstarch
  • 1/3 cup canola oil
  • 3/4 cup white sugar
  • 4 tbsp ketchup
  • 1/2 cup white distilled vinegar
  • 1 tbsp soy sauce
  • 1 tsp garlic salt

Instructions

  1. Rinse chicken, trim off fat or extras and then cut into 1 inch cubes. season with salt and pepper.

  2. Dip chicken into cornstarch and coat all the way and then into eggs.

  3. Heat oil in large skillet.

  4. Cook chicken until browned. Place in baking dish. 3 chicken breasts can be in a 9×9 but 5 chicken breasts fits better in a 9×13.

  5. Pour sauce evenly over chicken. Turn chicken so the sauce gets on both sides and then put in the oven at 350 degrees for 15 minutes. turn chicken and then cook for 15 more minutes.