Recipe : Sweet and sour Chicken

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.

 

Chicken in batter

 

Deep frying

 

Deep fried chicken