I have another DELICIOUS recipe for you all! I am so excited to share this one.. I found this on Mels Kitchen Cafe about a year ago. My family and I LOVE this dish! It has such a great flavor. You could probably trick your family into thinking you picked up some yummy Chinese food at a gourmet restaurant... It is that good, I promise! One of the great things about it is that its baked :) Your not deep frying it like the normal chinese dishes, so your getting tons of great flavor without all the fat and grease. I found the Fried Rice recipe on a website (dont remember which one) but added my own little twist to it. I made this last night for dinner and I think we all ate it up within 5 - 10 minutes! It's soooo good. I hope you give it a try soon :)
Baked Sweet and Sour Chicken
The chicken coating:
3-4 boneless chicken breasts
salt + pepper
1 cup cornstarch
2 eggs, beaten
1/4 cup canola oil
The sweet and sour sauce:
3/4 cup sugar
4 tbs ketchup
1/2 cup vinegar
1 tbs soy sauce
1 tsp garlic salt
Start by preheating your oven to 325 degrees. Rinse your chicken breasts in water and then cut into cubes. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Dip chicken into the cornstarch to coat then dip into the eggs. Heat your 1/4 cup oil in a large skillet and cook your chicken until browned but not cooked through. Place the chicken in a 9x13 greased baking dish. Mix all of your sweet and sour sauce ingredients in a bowl with a whisk and then pour evenly over the chicken. Bake for one hour and during the baking process you will need to turn the chicken every 15 minutes.
Below is the greatness you will get when it's all cooked:
YUM!
Fried Rice
3 cups cooked white rice (day old or leftover rice works best!)
3 tbs sesame oil
1 cup frozen peas and carrots (thawed)
1 small onion, chopped
2 tsp minced garlic
2 eggs, slightly beaten
1/4 cup soy sauce
On medium high heat, heat the oil in a large skillet or wok. Add the peas/carrots mix, onion and garlic. Stir fry until tender. Lower the heat to medium low and push the mixture off to one side, then pour your eggs on the other side of skillet and stir fry until scrambled. Now add the rice and soy sauce and blend all together well. Stir fry until thoroughly heated! **You could really play around with this rice too! Try adding some diced ham, or green onion :) Yum!
SCRUMDIDLIUMPTIOUS!
70 comments:
Wow Holly! This looks AMAZING! I will be trying this one out soon!
Dang, this looks just like the stuff at chinese resturaunts! Michael and Colby would love it!!!
Holly welcome to the food blogging world! What a cute family you have! Your recipes look stellar too! Can't wait to see what else you share!
Aww thanks so much Emily :) Glad you stopped by!
Holly,
I love this recipe and plan to make it asap:) Gluten free of course! karen
Definately making this! I love chinese food! Thanks, Holly!
I just want to let you know that I am not that great of a cook and was so sick of my husband criticizing everything I made. I almost gave up cooking until my sister-in-law, Codi, told me about your blog. I have tried a few recipes and every one of them has been delicious. I made this sweet and sour chicken and my husband absolutely loved it and the fried rice was amazing too. He like things to be a little spicy so next time I will try the szechaun chicken. I can't wait. Thank you so much for making me feel like I really can cook.
I make this chicken every few weeks and it's always a hit. Mel knocked it out of the park with this one!
Amy @ A Little Nosh
WOW! I made the chicken and it was amazing! The sauce was just perfect. My husband loved it and we will definitely be making this one often! Thanks!
Ok this might be a really stupid question, but here goes... when you say turn the chicken every 15 minutes do you mean flip each piece of chicken, or just rotate the pan. lol I did both because I didn't know. Again I know stupid question but that's just how I roll haha.
-Ashley, I meant the chicken. Not the pan. Hope you liked it!! :)
I made this meal this weekend and was absolutely delicious!!! I moved from Atlanta to Uruguay 6 months ago and haven't had any chinese food since!! I will definitely be making this again! Thanks so much for the recipe!! =)
This was simply amazing....SOOOOO good!! I added the ham to the fried rice (my first time to make that!) and I love the whole combination. Better than eating out! Thanks for the wonderful recipes!
I made this this past weekend. LOVED it! I couldn't believe how easy the chicken was to make. The fried was a little tough.
It was too dry & plain. I added a few extras into it & helped a little. Just no camparison to my fav chinese restaurant. BUt we still LOVED it. Going to make again!
This was absolutely amazing and delicious. Everyone in the family loved it and my husband RAVED!!!! He said it was the best sweet and sour chicken he had ever had and couldn't believe the fried rice was homemade!! Thanks so much!!!
My kids loved it! Thanks for sharing, it was excellent!
This does look great. It is still pan fried before it's baked, but I guess that is better than deep fat frying. I will give it a try on a day I have plenty of time to bake that long.
Found this on pinterest and tried it tonight. It was delicious! Thanks for the great recipe!
I made this last night and it was AWESOME!!! I put a link to it on my site under the "Recipes That Shine" tab :)
Thanks for such a GREAT recipe!!!
What do you do when the fried rice gets all mushy and clumps together? I used the biggest pan I have, but the grains of rice just didn't seem to separate. Is it the pan, the rice cooker, or did I mess up somewhere?
Anonymous - your using already cooked rice, right? I don't know how it would get mushy, unless you didn't scramble/cook the egg well enough before you mixed it into the rice. Or maybe you used to much soy sauce. Those are the only ways I can think of how it would've been 'mushy'.
I'm so sad it took me so long to look through your recipes and find this!! I can't get enough sweet and sour chicken but I feel so guilty when it's fried! Thanks Holly! ~Megan
I will have to try this, it looks like something the kids might actually eat! For the fried rice, the previous commenter might have had some clumping issues if the rice was freshly made. When you make fried rice, it works best when it's at least a day old. Also, next time you are experimenting, try adding in some oyster sauce with the soy sauce. Really kicks up the flavor a notch! Hmm...I might make this tonight actually...
Yum! I just made a batch of the fried rice (we made the chicken last week), and it's just perfect. Both were! So nice to be able to make some of our favorites without paying an arm and a leg for take-out. Thanks!
Found this on pinterest and tried it last night. It was delicious! My two grandsons just Rave about it. I used two bags of the "Boil-in-a-bag" white rice and it was perfect. Thanks for a great recipe. I'll be making this for a long time now.
One word, FANTASTIC!!!
This was so good. I just made this tonight for the second time in a few weeks and I made a double batch just so we could have leftovers. I made my rice first thing, rinsed it in cold water, and threw it in the fridge while I cooked the rest of the meal. It was nice and chilled by the time I needed it. Great recipe!
Just finished eating this. It was delicious!!!! However, a tad too much vinegar. I think next time I will decrease the vinegar and sugar, and replace it with pineapple in juice. That way it still has enough liquid, enough sweetness, and I LOVE pineapple!!!!!
I made your fried rice with dinner tonight and it was AMAZING! Better than what we get at the restaurants and cheaper! I halved the recipe, b/c we are a small group and it turned out great. My husband, my 2 year old and I are now huge fans. Also, it was super easy to make!
Making it right now, rice is wonderful, waiting for chicken to finish baking...stole a little piece and it was yummmmmmy!!!!
Making the chicken now, smells amazing! (: I added a green pepper and onion to the chicken like the Chinese restraunt always does, plus more veggies is healthier! The fried rice looks great and tastes even better, can't wait to finish the chicken. Thanks so much for the recipe! :)
Thanks so much for this recipe! It was amazing! We added hot sauce to the sweet/sour sauce and spiced it up a bit. Also, we like noodles better than rice so I substituted noodles and it was still amazing!
Omgosh! I am such a Sweet and Sour Chicken snob. This was WONDERFUL. We served it over white right and doubled the sauce amount because I want to die early. :P As left overs tonight, I am reheating on the stove and made more sauce and stir fried up some onions, green and red bell pepper and through that in with some pine apple chucks. THANK YOU!!!! From a very happy camper!
I thought the 1 C of corn starch seemed like a lot and I only used 1/2 C and it was plenty. I substituted bottled orange sauce for the sweet and sour and it was fab! I found that using premade and cooled rice worked much better! Thanks for the recipe! We scarfed it down!
Found this recipe on Pinterest. It caught my eye because it was "Gluten Free".
Hubby cooked it tonight and it was fantastic.
Thanks!
Eating this chicken now and it is amazing!! We just used regular rice as I didn't realize I didn't have any onions or more eggs. Will have to try the fried rice next time. I wasn't sure what type of vinegar to use, but since so many of my chinese recipes use cider vinegar, I used that, and I used just a shake or two of garlic powder because I was out of garlic salt. Anyway, the meal is absolutely wonderful and we will put this as a regular on our menu. Love that it is baked! Thanks soooo much!
Does anyone know of a substitute for the eggs to use for the chicken coating?
made this tonight....very good....I baked my chicken at 400 for only 15 mins....I also added mushrooms, red pepper, green onion & cashews to the rice....delish...will make again!
making this tonight! Im already drooling
I made this tonight & it was EXCELLENT!!!! My whole family LOVED it!! Thanks for sharing!! Jodie
I made this tonight as part of the meal for my first foodie blog post. I loved it! Would it be ok for me to link back to this page so my followers can enjoy this recipe, too?
Just tried this recipe, it was great, looking forward to trying more of your recipes in the very near future. thanks for posting these.
Did you mean dip the chicken into the eggs THEN into the cornstarch, or the other way around?
This looks great! My family just moved to S Africa and I haven't been able to find cornstarch. Do you know of anything I could use in its place?
Looks so yummy! But I'll allergic to Corn. Do you think Potato starch would work instead?
yum! I'm gonna try that rice this weekend! only without the eggs, cause I don't like eggs :x
I made the chicken for dinner tonight and it was GREAT! I am now about to check out some of your other recipes. Thanks!
I made this tonight, too. DELICIOUS. WIN. YAY!
AMAZING!!!!! A little time consuming but oh so worth it. I doubled the recipe and it made a huge batch for dinner and lunch the next day.
Since you are using corn starch, if you use the right soy sauce, the recipe is also Gluten free! That is a MUST in our house. We are going to have this tonight! Thanks for a new GF recipe that doesn't have to be fried in a deep fryer!
I tried this tonight, but with beef. It didn't turn out good at all. Sorry. It was like rice with brown gravy, onion, garlic and egg. Only my husband could eat it. I was hoping for beef fried rice.
I made this for dinner tonight! It was a big hit. Even my two-year old ate it. Thanks for sharing.
i have been craving chinese fro 3 weeks but it always makes me feel so yucky! this was sooooo good and hit the spot! it was so incredibly easy to!! i might add another egg to the rice only because i really like egg! thanks for sharing!!! i HIGHLY recommend this!
I just made this tonight. I was skeptical, worried the chicken would dry out in the oven so long. I was wrong! It was delicious, everyone in my family loved it. This is going into our "keeper" file of recipes and will be made again.
Loved it. Accidentally put 1/4 cup of ketchup but I substituted the sugar for brown sugar and then a bit of white sugar. Added water chestnuts to chicken in oven. Very good!
This was a huge hit with my family!!! I haven't made the Fried rice and just serve it over regular rice. I also steam up some broccoli to toss in with the mixture so that it is more of a complete meal. My 15 yo daughter even made this meal last night...it's that easy! It was wonderful coming home to a cooked meal!!!
Loved this so much & it was easy to make! Much better than any Chinese takeout. I made some additions to the sweet & sour sauce by adding onions, green peppers & pineapple to make it more like the restaurant by us. Will definitely make this again...thanks for sharing!!!
A few notes:
1. If you pre-soak the chicken in baking soda for about 15 minutes, then rinse it well and pat it dry before starting, your chicken will have better flavor and texture, and be very tender. That's a Chinese restaurant trick, and it works for pork, too.
2. Adding onions and peppers is necessary for me, it doesn't seem like sweet & sour chicken without them. Pineapple chunks are okay, but I can live without them.
3. For the fried rice, if you replace the soy sauce with a 1:1:1 mixture of soy sauce, fish or oyster sauce, and Maggi seasoning sauce, you will get a much more authentic Chinese restaurant flavor.
Otherwise, this is great, I love the idea of doing it in the oven. Good job.
Another note re the rice - you must use older cooked rice, like make it the day before and refrigerate it or use leftover rice from a few days earlier. If you use fresh cooked rice, it will be too sticky and clump together. It needs time to dry out some in the fridge before you try to make fried rice with it. Also, if you store the rice in a zipper bag, it's easier to break up for fried rice.
I made this for our Valentine's dinner. I added some shrimp at it was really, really good. Thanks!
Made this last night with my boyfriend and it was amazing! We were hesitant about dipping the chicken in the cornstarch first and then the egg but we were pleasently surprised as to how the chicken got this nice crispy coating. By the end of the baking cycle, the sauce carmalized and thickened.
We seasoned the chicken a tad bit more and also added cayenne pepper for kick. We added more salt to the sauce and a little less vinegar. And finally we only needed half a cup of cornstarch and one egg for the chicken. Everything else was spot on and we have leftovers for today.
Thank you so much! We'll definitely be making this again!!
I made this tonight for dinner, it turned out AMAZING! This will definitely be in our "this is a keeper" recipe book! Thanks for sharing!
Hey!! I bookmarked this so so long ago and finally made it in December, then I finally blogged about it lol.
http://www.soverydomestic.com/blog/index.php/2012/02/16/3999/
:)
Excellent recipe!
Made this last night for dinner. Let me tell you...AHmazing!!! My boyfriend extremely picky and only likes chicken and rice so I have begun finding plain chicken recipes...this is NO plain chicken. The flavor is unbelievble and it's really easy to make :o) Next time I will add some red pepper flakes for a little kick but that's because we love spicy so much!!! MAKE THIS CHICKEN!
Tried to make both of these last night...The stir fry was pretty good, think I'll do a few tweaks, (like have day old rice etc.), but the rice overall was good. The chicken however was an EPIC FAIL. I made some changes (doubled the recipe but had too much sauce so poured much out - most likely the sugar portion, cooked in a cookie sheet, not a 9x13,) it tasted really pungent and sour and even a little burnt...so I will try it again and perhaps even follow the directions this time:)
Do you think I can freeze the rice? It made a ton!
made this tonight. i only had a small amount of corn starch so i used what i had plus corn flour to make a full cup. turned the oven up to 375 the last 15 minutes to crisp the chicken up a bit and it was perfect. the family LOVED this chicken and the rice. i used short grain brown rice that i had cooked and froze earlier in the week and low sodium tamari instead of soy sauce.
so delicious! thanks for the recipe.
Made this for dinner tonight after craving chinese food for two weeks. I had all the ingredints for the sweet and sour chicken and decided to try it out (found recipe from pinterest!).
My husband and I are still drooling over the chicken - it was soo good! I'll definitely be keeping this recipe and hope to double it next time. Thank you for such an awesome recipe!
I made this tonight, and it was the best thing I have ever cooked. My husband walked in from work and said it smelled like a chinese resturant. I was so proud that I made a dish that tasted so good, all from scratch. Thanks so much!
I have actually never left a comment on a blog before (haha), but I just HAD to post after I made this tonight. My 2 1/2 yr old daughter does not eat any type of meat... so frustrating. In yet another attempt to get her to try some chicken, I smeared this chicken on her lips & had her lick her lips. She liked it so much that she speared a piece of chicken herself & ate it!! And then kept eating ALL the chicken!! Yayy! Thank you so much for sharing!
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