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Sweet and Sour Chicken


This dish offers a sweet and sour flavour with it's crispy deep fried chicken in batter. Preparation timeis about 25 minutes..
This dish offers a sweet and sour flavour with it's crispy deep fried chicken in batter. Preparation timeis about 25 minutes, cooking time is approximately 20 minutes and serves 4 persons.

Ingredients

1 onion

¼ cucumber

½ red pepper, seeded ½ green pepper, seeded

1 sliced pineapple, fresh or canned

75ml (5 tsp) pineapple juice

60ml (4 tsp) wine vinegar

15ml (1 tsp) sugar

½ tomato peeled, seeded and chopped into 4 pieces

300ml (½ pint) chicken stock

30ml (2 tsp) oil

450g (1 lb) chicken, cut into small sized cubes

2.5ml or ½ tsp of red food colouring

1 clove garlic, chopped

5ml or 1 tsp of corn flour, combined with a little water 5ml (1 tsp)

Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste

100g or 4 oz of Self raising flour

225ml or ½ pint of water

225ml or ½ pint of vegetable cooking oil

Cooking Instructions

Cut the onion, cucumber, red and green peppers and pineapple into thin matchsticks.

To make the sweet and sour sauce in the wok, mix together the pineapple juice, wine vinegar, sugar, tomato, chicken stock and food colouring. Heat for approximately 10 minutes, then add the corn flour and lastly mix in the onions, cucumber, red and green peppr. Set aside and reheat when required. Add salt and pepper ... to taste.

Place cubes of chicken in a small bowl and mix in salt, pepper and corn flour ... allow to marinate until required. To make the batter, mix the flour and water in a small bowl until it forms a paste like batter. Stir in the cubes of chicken and place in wok with cooking oil, make sure that the oil is hot. Cook until the batter is golden brown. Once cooked place chicken on a plate and pour on the sweet and sour sauce.

Serve with stir fried rice or boiled rice.


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