Sweet and Sour Chicken - Secrets of Asian Cuisine

Kitchen appliances and utensils: bowls, knife, fork / spoon, cutting board, frying pan, kitchen spatula.

Ingredients

Step cooking

1. Rinse the chicken fillet. Allow to drain. Cut the breast into small pieces. The size of one piece should be approximately 2 × 2 cm, 2 × 3 cm.
   
2. Put the slices in a deep bowl and pour in soy sauce. The meat will marinate for 30 minutes.
   
3. Wash the tomato and pepper, peel the seeds. If you have time, you can peel vegetables. To do this, pour the tomato with boiling water for a couple of minutes, and bake the pepper in the microwave. However, this recipe is not necessary. Cut vegetables into small cubes.
   
4. Peel the ginger and grate it.
   
5. Remove canned pineapple rings from a jar and cut into cubes. If you have a pineapple in a jar already diced - well, you don’t need to do anything, just pour the juice into a cup and that’s it. Do not pour juice or drink - it is also needed!
   
6. Heat the pan well and pour in a little vegetable oil. First put pepper in a pan. Stirring, bring it to softness. It takes a few minutes.
   
7. Then put the sliced ​​tomato cubes to the pepper and fry them for 2-3 minutes too.
   
8. When the peppers and tomatoes are slightly fried, add grated ginger and pineapple cubes. Then fry and stir again.
   
9. After a minute, pour a little pineapple juice into the mass, 2 tbsp. tablespoons of ketchup, 4 tbsp. tablespoons of apple cider vinegar and 1-2 tbsp. tablespoons of soy sauce. Mix everything thoroughly.
   
10. Pour a little water into a small container and pour 1 tbsp. a spoonful of starch. Mix well so that there are no lumps.
    
11. In the sauce, which boils on fire, carefully and slowly pour the starch. Stir constantly. Before our eyes, the sauce should become thicker.
    
12. As soon as it thickens - remove from heat.
    
13. Take a new pan. In chicken, which has been marinated all this time in soy sauce, pour 1 tbsp. a spoonful of flour and 1 tbsp. a spoonful of starch. To stir thoroughly.
    
14. Put in a pan and fry over medium heat. The chicken is cooked very quickly, literally 5-6 minutes.
    
15. When the chicken is ready, pour it into the sauce, mix and send to stew on the fire for another couple of minutes.
    
16. That's all! Your chicken in a spicy sweet and sour sauce is ready! Served with a side dish. Rice or bulgur is ideal.
    

Video recipe

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Asian cuisine has recently hit all records in popularity. Of course, most recipes are either very complex or require ingredients that are difficult to get from us. But, fortunately, the chicken recipe in a sauce of tomatoes, peppers, soy sauce and ketchup is completely simple, and does not contain rare ingredients. This dish can be prepared by everyone. At the same time, you can add other products to the sauce:

• Orange juice;
• lemon juice;
• Cherries
• blackcurrant;
• cranberries;
• replace tomato with tomato paste;
• add melted butter, etc.

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