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Sweet and Sour Chicken Karmel

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This sweet and sour recipe is a great favourite with my three children. It is also a recipe I gave Bethany in my recent series ‘Foodie Godmother’ on feeding fussy children on the Richard and Judy show. She had refused to eat chicken for years and much to her mother’s astonishment loved the recipe and asked for seconds! Serve with fluffy white rice.

To make eating fun you can buy child friendly chopsticks that are joined at the top so that they only need to be squeezed together to pick up food. I found that my children were so enamoured using these that they ate twice as much!

Ingredients

1/4 cup vegetable oil
2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into bite-size cubes

Batter

1 egg yolk
1 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch
1 tablespoon milk

Sweet-and-Sour Sauce

1 tablespoon soy sauce
2 tablespoons ketcup
2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar
2 tablespoons superfine sugar
1/2 teaspoon sesame oil
1 medium carrot, peeled and cut into matchsticks
4 canned whole baby corn, sliced in half lengthwise, then in half across
2 ounces thin green beans trimmed and cut in half
2 scallions, finely sliced
Salt and freshly ground pepper

Method:

In a small bowl, beat together the egg, cornstarch and milk to make a thin batter.

Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in a wok, dip the chicken into the batter then fry for 3 to 4 minutes until golden. Remove from the wok and set aside.
Meanwhile, mix together all the ingredients for the sweet and sour sauce.

Heat the remaining 2 tablespoons vegetable oil in a wok and stir-fry the carrot, baby corn, and green beans for 2 minutes. Add the sauce, bring to boil, and cook for 2 minutes. Remove from the heat and stir in the scallions. Add the chicken to the vegetables and heat through. Season to taste.

Comments !

jenlm
wrote on 11 Jun, 2009.

My family loves the sauce with this recipe! I have used it on chicken drumsticks and meatballs as well. Thank you!