Step-by-Step Guide to Make Homemade Sweet & Sour Chicken

Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, sweet & sour chicken. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have sweet & sour chicken using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Sweet & Sour Chicken:

1. Make ready large shallot
2. Make ready yellow bell pepper
3. Get red bell pepper
4. Take canned pineapple chunks (cut into quarters), reserve 1/4cup juice for sauce
5. Get boneless skinless chicken breasts (about 1/4-1/2 lb.)
6. Make ready cooking oil
7. Make ready garlic, small diced
8. Make ready fresh ground cinnamon
9. Prepare Salt and Pepper to taste
10. Get ketchup
11. Get brown sugar
12. Get rice vinegar
13. Take soy sauce
14. Get cornstarch
15. Get chives, chopped
16. Make ready cooked rice

Instructions to make Sweet & Sour Chicken:

1. Preheat the oven to 400ºF. Cut the onion, bell peppers, and chicken breasts into one-inch pieces. Drain the pineapple well, keeping the juice for the sauce. Place the onion, bell pepper, chicken, and pineapple chunks on a large sheet pan in a single layer to prevent the chicken and vegetables from piling on top of each other. They need a little room to brown correctly
2. Drizzle the cooking oil over the ingredients on the sheet pan, followed by the garlic powder, ground cinnamon, and a pinch or two of salt and pepper. Toss the chicken, bell peppers, onions, and pineapple until they are evenly coated in oil and spices.
3. Bake the chicken and vegetables in the oven for about 40 minutes, or until they are slightly browned on the edges. Stir halfway through the baking time to redistribute the heat and allow excess moisture to evaporate.
4. While the chicken and vegetables are baking, prepare the sauce. In a small saucepot whisk together the reserved pineapple juice, ketchup, brown sugar, vinegar, soy sauce, and cornstarch until the cornstarch is fully dissolved. Heat the mixture over medium flame, stirring often, until it begins to simmer. When it begins to simmer the cornstarch will begin to gel and thicken the sauce. Once the sauce has thickened to a glaze, remove it from the heat and set it aside until ready to use.
6. When the chicken and vegetables have finished baking, remove them from the oven and pour the prepared sauce over top. Stir until everything is coated in sauce.
8. Serve the sweet and sour chicken over cooked rice with chopped chives sprinkled over top.

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