Sweet and Sour Chicken with Pineapple and Peppers and delicious Sweet and Sour Sauce. We like to eat this Sweet and Sour Chicken with rice noodles or fluffy cooked rice.
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Quick Notes
- The Beer Batter can be prepared ahead of time.
- Cut chicken meat into bite size pieces about ½ - 1 inch.
- Serve Sweet and Sour Chicken immediately after cooking it.
- Serve with Rice Noodles or Fluffy Cauliflower Rice.
How to Make Beer Batter:
How to Make Sweet and Sour Chicken:
To make sweet and sour chicken, using a wok or a frying pan, fill it up halfway with avocado oil or any oil of your choice.
Preheat the oil over medium/high heat. Working in batches, toss each chicken piece in ½ cup flour.
Then coat it in the beer batter, and carefully add chicken to the hot oil.
Deep fry until golden color and chicken is cooked thru about 3 minutes.
After chicken is done cooking transfer it to a plate lined with paper towel.
How to Make Sweet and Sour Sauce:
After, add green onion and pineapple and stir fry for another 1 minute.
Coat chicken in the sauce and turn off the heat. Serve Sweet and Sour Chicken with Pineapple and Peppers with cooked rice or rice noodles. Enjoy!
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📖 Recipe
Sweet and Sour Chicken with Pineapple and Peppers
Equipment
- Frying Pan or Wok
Ingredients
Beer Batter
- ¾ cup all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon Kosher salt or to taste
- 1 cup beer
Sweet and Sour Sauce
- ¼ cup honey
- ⅓ cup apple cider vinegar
- 3 tablespoons pineapple juice from the can
- 3 tablespoons ketchup
- 3 teaspoons soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch dissolved in 4 tablespoons of cold water
Sweet and Sour Chicken
- 1 lb organic chicken breast or tenders skinless & boneless, cut into ½-1 inch pieces
- avocado oil for frying
- ½ cup flour
- 2 red bell pepper seeded & sliced
- 6-8 green onion stems chopped into 1 inch slices
- 8 oz can, chopped pineapple 3 tablespoons of juice reserved for the sauce, the rest is drained
Instructions
How to Make Beer Batter
- To make beer batter, combine flour, baking powder and salt in a mixing bowl. Then pour in ½ cup of beer and whisk the batter until smooth. After pour in the rest of ½ cup of beer. Whisk until everything is combined and there are no lumps.
How to Make Sweet and Sour Chicken
- To make sweet and sour chicken, using a wok or a frying pan, fill it up halfway with avocado oil or any oil of your choice.
- Preheat the oil over medium/high heat. Working in batches, toss each chicken piece in ½ cup flour, coat it in the beer batter then carefully add chicken to the hot oil.
- Deep fry until golden color and chicken is cooked thru about 3 minutes. After chicken is done cooking transfer it to a plate lined with paper towel.
How to Make Sweet and Sour Sauce
- Using a big skillet or wok, add 1 tablespoon of avocado oil over medium/high heat, add bell pepper and stir fry for 1 minute.
- Now, add sauce ingredients: ¼ cup honey, ⅓ cup apple cider vinegar, 3 tablespoons pineapple juice, 3 tablespoons ketchup, 3 teaspoons soy sauce and 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce. Stir until sauce warms up then stir in 1 tablespoon of corn starch dissoled in 4 tablespoons of water. Cook until sauce thickens about 3 minutes stirring few times.
- After, add green onion and pineapple and stir fry for another 1 minute. Coat chicken in the sauce and turn off the heat. Serve with cooked rice or rice noodles. Enjoy!
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Notes
- The Beer Batter can be prepared ahead of time.
- Cut chicken meat into bite size pieces about ½ - 1 inch.
- Serve Sweet and Sour Chicken immediately after cooking it.
- Serve with Rice Noodles or Fluffy Cooked Rice.
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