Sweet and Sour Chicken Stir Fry

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Abi Reid
30 Sep 2021

These are a great way to use up any vegetables you may have and can be customised to your taste by adding different herbs, spices and sauces. Check out how to make our sweet and sour chicken stir fry here.

This recipe serves up to 4 people.

Chicken sweet and sour stir fry with rice

Image by Sharon Ang from Pixabay

Ingredients

  • 2 tbsp of oil

  • 1 onion, peeled and roughly chopped

  • 1 pepper, cut into strips

  • 1 200g can on pineapple chunks

  • ½ tbsp caster sugar

  • 2 tbsp soy sauce

  • 4 tbsp tomato puree

  • 1 tsp mustard

  • 125g beansprouts

  • 150g mangetout

  • 1 and ½ tbsp cornflour

  • 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar

  • 400g of chicken breast, chopped into small chunks

 

Method

  1. Heat up oil in a large frying pan

  2. Fry chicken in pan until brown and remove from pan

  3. Fry the onion and pepper in the pan and return the chicken to the pan.

  4. Add pineapple juice along with sugar, soy sauce, vinegar, tomato purr and mustard.

  5. Simmer for 10 minutes, or until chicken is tender and piping hot

  6. Add the beansprouts, pineapple chunks and mangetout

  7. Blend cornflour with a little water and add to pan

  8. Stir over heat until sauce has thickened

  9. Serve with noodles or rice

 

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