Sweet n sour chicken
Enjoy this fakeaway. It is a cheaper, lower sugar alternative to the takeaway version and the meat is stir-fried instead of deep fried, making it a much healthier choice. What's not to love?
Ingredients
2 tablespoons of olive oil
500g of trimmed chicken, diced into cubes
4 cups of raw mixed vegetables, eg onion, carrot, celery, capsicum, green beans, snow peas, corn, bok choy (whatever you have) cut into cubes.
1 teaspoon of salt reduced stock powder
1 cup of water
2 tablespoons of vinegar
2 teaspoons of brown sugar
2 tablespoons of salt reduced tomato sauce
½ cup of pineapple pieces, peeled if fresh or drain the juice if using canned pineapple.
2 tablespoons of cornflour
3 cups of cooked brown basmati rice
Method
- Heat oil in large frying pan
- Add chicken and cook until brown
- Reduce heat to medium and add the mixed vegetables. Continue to cook for 5 more minutes
- Reduce heat to low and add in the chicken stock powder, water, vinegar, brown sugar and tomato sauce and simmer for 5 minutes
- Add in the pineapple. In a separate bowl mix cornflour and two tablespoons of extra water and mix until a smooth paste. Add to frying pan
- Mix everything together until cornflour goes clear and sauce thickens to desired consistency
- Serve with low GI brown basmati rice.
