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Thursday, December 6, 2012

Sweet and Sour Chicken


It has been a few days since I have posted because Justin and I spent several days eating that huge turkey! Now that all of the leftovers are gone, we wanted to try something different. I stumbled across this recipe online, but needed to make modifications because we didn't have all of the ingredients on hand.

Ingredients:

3-4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
2-3 large eggs
1 cup corn starch 
Salt and pepper to taste
1/4 cup vegetable oil or canola oil

Sauce Ingredients:

1/2 cup white vinegar
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup ketchup
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 Tablespoon soy sauce (we prefer the low sodium variety)

Put the oil in a frying pan and heat on medium. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Cut up the thawed chicken into 1 inch pieces. In a bag, combine corn starch, salt, and pepper. Add chicken pieces and shake the bag to evenly coat each piece. Whisk the eggs in a bowl and dip each corn starch coated piece into the eggs, then place in the frying pan. Cook the chicken until it is lightly browned but don't cook it all the way through. Place the browned chicken into a baking dish. Mix together the sauce ingredients and pour over the chicken. Bake the chicken in the oven for about an hour, turning the chicken a few times to every coat it in sauce. We served this with white rice and mixed veggies. Enjoy! 

Money and time saving tip: We like to buy large packages of fresh boneless skinless chicken breast and package it into small portions before freezing it. We knew we were going to make this recipe ahead of time, so I cut up the chicken before packaging it and thawed it overnight in the fridge before making it. A good set of kitchen shears makes it easy to cut up meat!


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