Cooking time: Not indicated

The dish is easy to prepare.

- chili pepper or jalapeno - 1 small pod;

- fresh ginger - 1 tbsp. l. finely chopped;

- garlic - 3 large cloves;

- soy sauce - 2-3 tbsp. spoons;

— fresh tomatoes – 5-6 pcs (or canned, tomato juice, sauce);

- sugar (white or brown) - 1 tbsp. spoon;

- fresh pineapple (or canned without sugar) - 4-5 slices;

— onion – 1 piece;

- lime juice (or lemon juice) - 1.5 tbsp. spoons;

— freshly ground black pepper (coarsely ground) – 1 teaspoon;

- vegetable oil (any) - 2 tablespoons.

Cut the skinless chicken breast meat into bite-sized cubes (or a little smaller).

Pour in dark soy sauce, preferably not very salty and not very concentrated. Stir until all the chicken pieces are coated with the sauce. It’s not like swimming in it, but we add enough sauce to marinate the chicken. Leave for an hour (when there is no time, marinate for 30-35 minutes).

Finely chopping ginger, garlic and pepper will take a lot of time, so use what you have on hand for chopping: a fine-hole grater, a garlic press, a mortar. Or use a sharp knife to chop everything into small pieces. First cut off the white partitions of the pepper (they run along the inside of the pod) and shake out the seeds.

We free the fresh pineapple from its hard peel, and drain the juice from the canned one (reserve it for gravy). We cut the pineapples into medium-sized cubes, smaller than chicken.

We take any onion: white, purple or regular onion. Shred with thin long feathers.

We need to chop fresh tomatoes in a blender or grate them on a coarse grater. Mash the canned ones with a fork (put them in a blender), and dilute the tomato sauce (if it is concentrated) a little with water or pineapple juice from a can. To get a more contrasting taste, add brown or white sugar to the tomato puree.

Add 1 tbsp. spoon of soy sauce.

Squeeze lime juice or add lemon juice. Mix everything, dissolving the sugar crystals. Sweet and sour sauce is ready.

To prepare chicken fillet in sweet and sour sauce, heat the vegetable oil well in a frying pan and pour pieces of meat into it. Quickly stir with a spatula or spoon, separating them from one another. Fry for about five minutes over medium heat. As soon as the fillet begins to brown and a golden crust appears, add the onion. Fry the fillets all together until half cooked.

Add all the hot seasonings to the chicken: ginger, garlic and hot pepper. Fry for a minute.

Serve the chicken in the sweet and sour sauce immediately, without letting it cool. You can prepare fluffy rice as a side dish or serve the chicken as a separate dish. Bon appetit!

Chicken in Chinese sweet and sour sauce with pineapples is a tender, juicy dish with a rich, delicious taste. You may have tried it in a restaurant. Or we cooked it at home, but with apples. Today we will try to prepare the basic and simplest recipe at home - we will combine chicken fillet, pineapples and a few additional “Chinese” accents: ginger, garlic, peppers, tomato sauce, soy sauce. It won't be exactly the same as in a Chinese restaurant, but it definitely won't disappoint.

Cooking time: 20 minutes / Number of servings: 2

Ingredients

• chicken fillet 600 g
• canned pineapples 250 g
• ginger piece 3 cm
• garlic 1 clove
• hot pepper to taste
• pepper, h.m. taste
• starch 2 tbsp. l. with a slide
• tomato sauce 1 tbsp. l. with a slide
• soy sauce 2 tbsp. l.
• salt as desired
• vegetable oil 2 tbsp.

Preparation

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Wash the chicken fillet, dry it, trim off excess fat, and remove any films. Cut into small cubes, roll in starch. The easiest way to do this is using a plastic bag. To do this, put the chopped fillet in a bag, pour starch into it and shake it well a couple of times. All pieces will be evenly rolled in starch, and the excess will remain at the bottom of the bag.



Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan, heat it and fry the fillet pieces on all sides until golden brown.



Add chopped pineapples to the meat along with juice and tomato sauce. If the pineapple juice is too sweet, or the tomato sauce is not sour enough, add a little white balsamic vinegar to taste.



Next add soy sauce, stir and cook over medium heat for 10 minutes.



After a while, add pressed or finely grated garlic, ginger, finely chopped hot pepper and freshly ground black pepper. Cook for another 5 minutes. If desired, the dish can be salted, but if you have soy sauce, this is not necessary.



Remove the pan from the stove, cover with a lid, and let the dish sit for 10 minutes so that all the juices and flavors mix.



Boil the rice and serve with it the chicken in a sweet and sour sauce with pineapples.

This hearty Chinese-style dish is made from chicken breast or thigh fillets. You can also take wings or legs for it. The pieces are marinated in spices, soy sauce and herbs. The meat is fried in vegetable oil with onions, carrots, sweet peppers, and beans. Sometimes slices of canned pineapple, apples or nuts are added to the fillet.

Five of the fastest recipes for Chinese chicken fillet in sweet and sour sauce:

Sweet and sour sauce can be purchased at a supermarket or online store. If desired, it can be prepared independently from simple ingredients: ketchup, honey, water, starch, soy sauce, apple cider vinegar. For taste, hot pepper, garlic, and herbs are added to it.

Before serving, the dish is decorated with black or white sesame seeds.

How to cook chicken in sweet and sour sauce in Chinese

The colorful dish is prepared on the stove, in a slow cooker or in the oven.

Five of the lowest calorie recipes for Chinese chicken in sweet and sour sauce:

1. The poultry fillet is cut into thin long slices or cubes. For the marinade, take soy sauce, mix it with chopped garlic, ginger, and basil. The fillet is combined with the sauce and placed in the refrigerator for 20-30 minutes. Whole chicken pieces are marinated for 2-3 hours.
2. Sweet peppers and onions are cut into strips, carrots are grated on a grater for Korean vegetables. The products are fried separately in a hot frying pan or in a wok until golden brown. It is important not to overcook the meat, otherwise it will lose its juiciness. Canned pineapple juice is added to the vegetables for taste.
3. To make the sweet and sour dressing, mix soy sauce, apple cider vinegar, cornstarch and water in a bowl. Sugar or honey is added to it.
4. The products are combined in a frying pan, poured with sauce and simmered for 10-15 minutes over medium heat. At the very end, the products are sprinkled with sesame seeds.
5. Freshly squeezed orange juice gives the dish an original taste. It is added to the pan 10 minutes before it is ready.
6. You can add vermicelli or funchose to the chicken in the pan.

The treat goes well with boiled rice, mashed potatoes and stewed vegetables.

A delicious dish is prepared for lunch or dinner.

I have been looking for a recipe for sweet and sour sauce for a very long time so that it turns out exactly the same as in a Chinese restaurant. There are quite a lot of recipes online, and although all of them are certainly sweet and sour, they are still “not the same”.
But some time ago I was lucky: I found “that” recipe that perfectly recreates the sweet and sour Chinese taste.

At first, the recipe seemed quite complicated to me, and for a long time I did not dare to cook it. The first time I cooked it was for the New Year, deciding to make something special for the holiday table, and since then sweet and sour chicken has become a regular dish on our menu.
And the baby doll, having tried this chicken for the first time, said: “Mom learned how! Mom cooked like a chef!” It seems to me that this is the best recommendation. And you?

In reality, cooking turned out to be incredibly easy; after the first time, I can do everything extremely quickly and by eye.

To prepare you will need:
2 chicken fillets
1 bell pepper (I like the red one better, but this time the store only had yellow ones)
Canned pineapples (half a can)

Potato or corn starch
Soy sauce
Ketchup
Yolk
Apple vinegar
Sugar
Salt

First, cut the chicken fillet into small pieces, such that you can put the whole thing in your mouth.

Let's marinate. To do this, add yolk to the fillet, 1 tbsp. starch and soy sauce (pour the sauce by eye, there should be very little of it, the chicken should not swim in it). Salt. It is necessary to add salt, even if the soy sauce is salty, otherwise the dish will turn out very sweet. But don't overdo it. A pinch is enough for me.

Mix everything well and leave for at least 30 minutes.

Then we prepare the vegetables: cut the pepper into squares. If the pineapples are not cut, then neither are they. The pepper and pineapple pieces should be approximately the same size.

When the vegetables are prepared, we return to the chicken. If you have not poured the sauce, then after 30 minutes. The marinade was all absorbed into the meat. Then just sprinkle starch on top and mix well.

If there is too much marinade, then first carefully remove the chicken onto a board or plate, trying not to capture excess liquid, and only then roll it in starch.

Fry the meat. In order for the fillet to turn out sooooo tender, you need to fry quickly, at maximum heat, stirring constantly. In this case, the meat should move freely around the pan. To make this happen, I fry in small batches. Each batch takes about 5 minutes to fry.

Remove the chicken from the pan. Instead, add pepper. Fry for 1-2 minutes. (If there is not enough oil in the frying pan, add it)

After this, add pineapples. Once the sizzling has stopped (usually about 2 minutes), we begin creating the sauce.

To do this, prepare all the ingredients in advance! Place vinegar and ketchup next to the stove, open the lids, prepare sugar, prepare starch water in a cup or glass. To do this, dilute the starch in water in a 1:1 ratio (we will need about 1 tablespoon of starch).

The sauce must be prepared very quickly, without thinking, over high heat.
Pour vinegar into the frying pan (about 30 ml or 2 tbsp), stir,
Add sugar (50 g or 2.5 tbsp), mix
Then add ketchup (50 g or 2 tbsp) and mix again
Last thing: starch water. First, add 2 tablespoons, mix well and see: if the sauce is not thick enough, then add more, one spoon at a time, stirring constantly until we achieve the desired consistency.

Once the sauce is ready, pour the chicken into it, reduce the heat, mix well, and serve! I like to place this chicken on a snow-white rice bed: it looks very impressive, and how delicious the rice turns out! Mmmmmm, finger licking good!

If you love sweet and sour Chinese food, then definitely try it! This recipe seems complicated only at first glance, in fact, it is very simple, and so delicious! Real jam!

Chicken in sweet and sour sauce is the most popular and ancient dish of Chinese cuisine. Previously, it was served only to the emperor, and the secret of preparation was known only to those close to the imperial palace. Today, this dish is loved in many countries, and despite the fact that the recipe has undergone some changes, traditionally it still uses sugar and apple cider vinegar.

As you know, Chinese chefs love to use a variety of additives, spices and sauces in preparing their dishes. As a rule, they use three types of dressing at once, which give the finished dish an unusual combination of different tastes. And now we also offer a recipe using several dressings. So, Chinese chicken in sweet and sour sauce.

Ingredients:

• 550 g chicken fillet;
• two eggs;
• four tablespoons of granulated sugar, starch, soy sauce;
• 50 g tomato paste;
• Apple vinegar;
• salt pepper.

Cooking method:

1. Place cubes of chicken meat in a deep bowl, pour in two tablespoons of soy seasoning, beat in the egg whites, add two tablespoons of starch, salt and pepper. Mix the mixture and leave the meat to marinate for 50 - 60 minutes.
2. Prepare the sauce. To do this, mix the remaining soy seasoning and starch with paste and granulated sugar. Add vinegar, salt and a little water to taste.
3. Fry the meat in heated oil until an appetizing crust. Then pour in the sauce, simmer the chicken for another five minutes and remove from heat.

Recipe with vegetables

To prepare meat in sweet and sour sauce, pork is usually used, but you can use a more tender and dietary product. For example, chicken fillet. Thanks to the unusual sauce, chicken with vegetables acquires an unusual, but very pleasant taste.

Ingredients:

• 450 chicken fillets;
• two to three sweet fleshy peppers;
• two onions;
• three cloves of garlic;
• ginger;
• half a cup of soy sauce;
• 20 g starch;
• sesame (vegetable) oil;
• 20 ml honey;
• salt, spices, chili pepper.

Cooking method:

1. The first step is to prepare the sauce for the meat. To do this, combine soy seasoning with honey, chopped onion, chopped ginger, garlic and salt.
2. Cut the chicken into thin long slices and place in the marinade for half an hour.
3. Three carrots on a Korean grater. If there is none in the house, then we cut it into strips. We also cut the sweet pepper into strips, and simply crush the chili, not forgetting to remove the seeds.
4. We send the prepared vegetables to the meat and marinate all the ingredients for another half hour.
5. Place the meat with vegetables and marinade in a hot frying pan with oil, add a little water and start frying.
6. After 15 minutes, add starch, mix the ingredients and simmer the almost finished dish over low heat for another 10 minutes.

Thai chicken fillet

Thai cuisine is a combination of bitter, sweet, sour and salty tastes. Those who have traveled around the world have repeatedly noted that Thai cuisine is the most unpredictable, unusual and rich.

And now we will tell you how to prepare one of the most popular Thai dishes available for home cooking. Here is a recipe for Thai chicken fillet.

Ingredients:

• 550 g poultry meat;
• a spoonful of honey, rice vinegar, starch and orange zest;
• 80 ml orange juice;
• three tablespoons of soy sauce;
• garlic clove;
• two tablespoons of olive oil;
• curry, ginger.

Cooking method:

1. In heated oil, fry the chicken pieces for three minutes on each side.
2. Let's prepare a sauce from freshly squeezed orange juice, vinegar, soy seasoning, zest, chili, dried ginger and curry. Add the prepared mixture to the meat and mix.
3. We dilute the starch in two tablespoons of water, pour it into the frying pan with the rest of the ingredients, where we cook until the sauce thickens.
4. The finished meat with a bright spicy citrus aroma and taste is served with rice or bulgur.

Oven baking recipe

If you are unable to cook meat outdoors, bake it in the oven, but be sure to use sweet and sour sauce in the recipe.

As a result, the taste and aroma of chicken cooked according to this recipe in the oven is in no way inferior to barbecue dishes.

Ingredients:

• chicken drumsticks;
• 150 ml pineapple juice;
• two spoons each of soy and hot sauces;
• two cloves of garlic;
• two tablespoons of rice vinegar;
• two tablespoons of fresh ginger;
• spoon with a heap of starch;
• half a cup of sugar;
• 50 g flour;
• salt.

Cooking method:

1. Cover the baking sheet with paper, lay out the chicken drumsticks and bake them in the oven at 220 degrees, first for 20 minutes on one side, and then 10 minutes on the other.
2. In a deep container, mix all the liquid ingredients for the sauce, add chopped garlic, chopped ginger, salt and sugar. Cook the contents of the container over low heat for half an hour.
3. Remove the chicken legs from the oven, pour the marinade over them and bake for another 20 minutes.

With added honey

Chinese chefs use a wide variety of ingredients to prepare sauces and marinades. But you can adjust the taste yourself.

So, by adding more honey, you will get more sweetness, and you can regulate the acidity with vinegar.

Ingredients:

• 300 g chicken breast;
• three carrots and one onion;
• three cloves of garlic;
• tsp honey;
• 60 ml soy sauce;
• three tablespoons of starch;
• tsp vinegar.

Cooking method:

1. Marinate the chicken pieces in soy sauce and then fry in oil for 20 minutes.
2. We lay out strips of carrots with the meat, and then add starch, which was previously dissolved in water.
3. All that remains is to add chopped onion and garlic, pour in vinegar and add honey. Mix the mixture and after five minutes remove the dish from the heat.

Cooking with pineapples

Chicken in sweet and sour sauce with pineapples is a dish that is quickly prepared and eaten just as quickly. You can cook it either in a frying pan or in the oven. We also offer our own recipe for making baked chicken with exotic fruit and an unusual sauce.

Ingredients:

• chicken;
• two cloves of garlic;
• half a cup each of soy sauce, ketchup and wine vinegar;
• pineapple rings (canned);
• 60 ml honey.

Cooking method:

1. For the sauce, mix all the ingredients and pour it over the chicken.
2. Place the meat along with the marinade on foil, add rings of exotic fruit, wrap it and put it in the oven for an hour, temperature 200 degrees.
3. If you want to get the chicken with a golden brown crust, then open the foil 15 minutes before the end of the process.

Chicken in sweet and sour sauce with rice

Chicken stewed in sweet and sour sauce goes perfectly with cereals, especially rice. Delight your family with an unusual, but quite affordable, dish of Chinese cuisine.

Ingredients:

• 400 g chicken fillet;
• 150 ml soy sauce;
• 120 ml apple cider vinegar;
• 30 g tomato paste;
• 200 g pineapples;
• two tomatoes;
• Bell pepper;
• any sweetener (sugar or honey).

Cooking method:

1. Place thin pieces of meat into a container. Pepper them, pour six tablespoons of soy seasoning and leave to soak.
2. Prepare the dressing in a deep frying pan. To do this, pour in the remaining soy seasoning, vinegar and add tomato paste. Heat the mixture and add any sweetener.
3. Now add strips of red pepper, tomato and pieces of fruit to the resulting mixture. Pour in water and taste – if it’s too sour, add more sugar or honey. Cook for ten minutes, the sauce should be moderately thick.
4. Place fried chicken pieces into the prepared dressing, cook them for another ten minutes, then turn off the heat and serve the dish with boiled rice cereal.





Ingredients:

• chicken fillet;
• 220 g of red and white cherry plum;
• five cloves of garlic;
• 120 ml dry red wine;
• bulb;
• salt, pepper, anise (seeds).

Cooking method:

1. Cut the chicken fillet into pieces and fry in oil in the “Fry” mode for 8 minutes.
2. Then add garlic slices and onion half rings to the meat, cook until the vegetables are soft.
3. Pour in the wine, add spices, and place a mesh on top for steamed dishes. Place the cherry plum on it and turn on the “Stew” mode for 45 minutes.
4. 10 minutes after the start of cooking, we take out the already soft fruit, knead it and send it to the meat. Continue cooking until the beep sounds.

Sweet and sour sauce is the most important component of the dish. Its taste depends on the combination of different products taken in a certain ratio. If the proportions are violated, the sauce will have a different taste or will not taste at all. Therefore, the most important thing is to follow the recipe exactly.