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Healthy Sweet & Sour Chicken.

Healthy Sweet & Sour Chicken You can have Healthy Sweet & Sour Chicken using 17 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Healthy Sweet & Sour Chicken

  1. It's of boneless, skinless chicken breasts.
  2. It's of veg oil.
  3. Prepare of medium onion, cut into 12 wedges.
  4. Prepare of peppers, red, green, orange or yellow, deseeded and cut into chunks of about 3cm/1¼in.
  5. You need of x 225g/8oz can water chestnuts.
  6. Prepare of x 425g/15oz can pineapple chunks in natural juice drained.
  7. It's of garlic cloves, peeled and crushed.
  8. You need of g/1oz piece fresh root ginger, peeled and finely grated.
  9. It's of freshly ground black pepper.
  10. Prepare of Sauce.
  11. Prepare of Juice from 2 tins pineapples approx 300ml.
  12. Prepare of cornflour.
  13. It's of dark soy sauce.
  14. You need of white wine vinegar.
  15. Prepare of granulated sweetener.
  16. Prepare of tomato ketchup.
  17. Prepare of dried chilli flakes.

Healthy Sweet & Sour Chicken instructions

  1. To make the sauce, drain both the pineapple tins in a sieve over a bowl and keep all the juice – you should have about 250ml. Add 300ml water, then stir in the soy sauce, vinegar, sweetener, ketchup and chilli flakes until thoroughly combined. Set aside. Put the cornflour in a bowl and stir in approx three tablespoons (or more) if required of water to make a smooth paste..
  2. Cut each chicken breast into eight or nine even pieces. Heat the oil in a large non-stick frying pan or wok and stir-fry the onion and peppers for two minutes over a high heat. Drain the water chestnuts and cut them in half horizontally..
  3. Add chicken to the pan and stir-fry for two minutes until coloured on all sides. Add the garlic, ginger, pineapple chunks and water chestnuts and stir-fry for 30–60 seconds..
  4. Give the cornflour and water mixture a good stir and add it to the pan with the chicken and vegetables. Stir well, season with some ground black pepper and bring to a simmer. Cook for 4–6 minutes until the sauce is thickened and glossy and the chicken is tender and cooked throughout, turning the chicken and vegetables a few times. Serve with a small portion of rice..