Chicken in sweet and sour sauce - incredibly tasty, tender and zesty. Preparing the dish quickly, consists of inexpensive and affordable ingredients. Nowadays, ginger, sea salt and soy sauce long ago moved from the category of overseas rarities into the category of everyday products that are in any store. A similar recipe is found under the name "sweet and sour chicken in Chinese." In various versions of the recipe, fresh pineapple is added to the sauce, hot pepper is put, honey is used instead of granulated sugar, and not vinegar is poured as an acidulant. Cook the chicken in a sweet and sour sauce as you like, try it to your taste, because, as you know, everyone has different tastes.
- Cooking time: 20 minutes
- Servings: 2
Ingredients for cooking chicken in sweet and sour sauce:
- 300 g chicken breast fillet;
- 85 g carrots;
- 70 g of green sweet pepper;
- 20 g of ginger;
- 120 g red onions;
- 3-4 cloves of garlic;
- 60 g tomato puree;
- 35 g of granulated sugar;
- 45 ml of soy sauce;
- 50 ml of wine vinegar;
- 35 ml of olive oil;
- sea salt, black pepper, green onions.
Method of cooking chicken in sweet and sour sauce
Cut chicken fillet from chicken breast. Meat for chicken in sweet and sour sauce, cut into long strips 1.5 centimeters wide. Put the fillet in a bowl, add a tablespoon of soy sauce and olive oil, pour 1/2 teaspoon of sea salt, pepper black pepper. Leave the meat in the marinade for 10-15 minutes.
Fillets can be held in the marinade for several hours or left overnight, the taste will only improve.
Heat the remaining olive oil in a pan, throw in the heated oil chicken fillet, fry over high heat quickly, stir. Such a dish is convenient to cook in a wok (in a frying pan with a convex bottom) - the meat remains juicy, the vegetables are crispy, and the cooking time is spent quite a bit.
Fried chicken get out of the pan, we shift to the bowl.
Next, continue to cook vegetables in the same pan, you do not need to wash it.
Fresh ginger root peel, cut finely. Garlic cloves minced. Throw ginger and garlic in hot oil, fry for half a minute.
Cut the sweet red onion finely, add to garlic and ginger, sprinkle with sea salt. Fry onions for 5 minutes, until it becomes translucent.
We rub the carrots on a Korean grater or chop into thin strips. Green pepper pod cleaned from seeds, cut into cubes.
Add peppers and carrots to the pan, fry vegetables over high heat for 5 minutes.
Pour the remaining soy sauce, vinegar and pour granulated sugar into a frying pan.
Then add tomato puree, evaporate moisture from the pan over high heat. When vegetables are caramelized, that is, the liquid is almost completely evaporated, and the sauce will become viscous and thick, you can add meat.
Put the fried filet to the vegetables, prepare everything together for another 3-4 minutes.
Before serving, sprinkle chicken in sweet and sour sauce with onion or parsley. Enjoy your meal!
By the way, not only chicken can be cooked with this recipe. Low-fat pork, veal or turkey is also good. It is important to choose the meat and thinly chop it.
