Sweet and sour chicken

Sweet and sour chicken
Average rating: 4 out of 5 star rating

This Cantonese dish is probably the most famous dish in the West - the key is to keep the chicken crispy.

  • Cooking time: 10 mins

  • Serves: 2

Ingredients

  • 1 sweet and sour stir fry sauce sachet
  • 50g bamboo shoots
  • 225g skinless chicken
  • 1tsp salt
  • 1tbsp dry sherry
  • 1 egg
  • 1tbsp cornflour
  • 1 red pepper
  • 1 handful baby sweetcorn
  • 1 handful mange tout
  • 1 leek
  • 1 red onion
  • Half a small onion
  • 5tbsp vegetable oil
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Method

  1. Dice the chicken into 1 cm cubes. Add the salt and sherry and marinate the chicken for 30 mins.
  2. Make a batter by mixing together the egg and cornflour.
  3. Trim and deseed the pepper and cut into thin strips. Cut the leek into 1 cm sections. Chop the onion and the bamboo shoots into 1 cm slices.
  4. Coat the chicken in the batter and heat the oil in a frying pan. Add the chicken and stir-fry gently over a high heat for 2½ mins. Add the bamboo shoots and continue to stir-fry for 30 secs. Remove the chicken and bamboo shoots and set aside.
  5. Replace the frying pan over the heat and add the pepper, leek and onion. Stir-fry for 1 min. Then add the chicken, bamboo shoots and sweet and sour sauce. After a few quick stirs transfer to heated serving plates and serve with egg noodles.
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Nutritional information

Guideline Daily Amount for 2,000 calories per day are: 70g fat, 20g saturated fat, 90g sugar, 6g salt.

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