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Sweet & sour chicken
Photo: Lily Banse

Sweet & sour chicken

13 ingredients 20 min + 45 min Serves 4 openrecipes
Sweet & sour chicken

Try an authentic version of this classic Chinese takeaway dish, with natural sweetness and a warm chilli flavour to spice things up

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

1321
Calories
56g
Protein
33g
Fat
193g
Carbs

Counts 11 of 14 ingredients — the other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 11 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Flour 1 cup (125g) all-purpose 455
Rice 1 cup cooked (158g) white 206
Sunflower 1 oz (28g) hulled 165
Chicken 100g cooked 165
Olive Oil 1 tbsp (14g) 119
Pineapple 1 cup chunks (165g) 82
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Onion 1 medium (110g) 44
Wine 2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml) 25
Chili 1 tsp (2.7g) 8
Vinegar 1 tbsp (15ml) distilled 3
Water not in our table 0
Star Anise not in our table 0
Tamarind not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • sunflower or vegetable oil , for frying
  • 100ml soda water , chilled
  • 140g self-raising flour
  • 25g cornflour
  • 4 skinless, boneless chicken breasts , cut into chunks
  • spring onions , finely shredded, to serve
  • 1 red pepper , deseeded and chopped into chunks
  • 3 red chillies , 1 cut into chunks, 2 halved and deseeded
  • 425g can pineapple chunks, drained and juice reserved
  • 4 star anise
  • 50g tamarind paste
  • 100g caster sugar
  • 100ml rice wine vinegar or Chinese vinegar

Directions

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By bbcgoodfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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