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| Sweet and sour chicken |
Sweet and sour
Chicken
Sweet
and sour Chicken/Pork is also known as ‘Ku Lo Yoke’. This is a Cantonese dish. My son loves it.
Ingredients:-
500 gm chicken thigh fillet (cut into pieces)
1 brown or spanish onion (cut into 8)
Fresh pineapple (cut into bite sizes)
Chilli (julienned)
1 tsp minced garlic
Oil for deep frying
Marinade (A)
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp Shao Xing cooking wine
¼ tsp salt
¼ tsp pepper
1 tsp cornstarch
Sauce
2 tbsp tomato sauce
2 tbsp chilli sauce
1 tsp white/rice vinegar
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp oyster sauce
300 to 500 ml chicken stock
½ tsp salt
1 tsp tapioca flour (dilute with 2 tbsp cold tap water)
Batter
2 tbsp cornflour
1 tbsp plain flour
1 tbsp rice flour
1 egg
1 tbsp unsalted butter
1/8 tsp of salt
water
Procedure
Marinade chicken with (A) for an hour.
In a bowl, mix all the sauces except for tapioca starch and
set it aside.
Mix the batter ingredients. Combine and incorporate till no
lumps. Place pieces of chicken into the batter.
Heat a wok or pot with sufficient amount of cooking oil.
Deep fry the chicken meat till golden brown. Remove and
drain on kitchen paper towel.
Heat a clean wok. Add 1 tbsp vegetable oil.
Saute the brown/spanish onion. Add minced garlic and fry
both till golden brown.
Pour the sauce into the wok. Stir and let it boil. Add
pineapple and chilli. Simmer the sauce for 2 minutes. Keep on stirring while
you pour the tapioca starch mixture.
Lastly add the fried chicken. Turn of heat. Give a quick
stir to combine chicken with the sauce.
Serve hot with rice.
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| Chicken in batter |
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| Deep frying |
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| Deep fried chicken |
