Sweet and Sour Easy Chicken

Ingredients for Sweet and Sour Easy Chicken:

1. Boneless chicken – 500 gm, cut into pieces
2. Oil – 4 big spoons
3. Ginger and garlic chopped – 1 big spoon each
4. Onions chopped – ¼ cup
5. Carrot cut into round pieces – ¼ cup
6. Red capsicum cut into square pieces – ¼ cup
7. Broccoli florets – ¼ cup
8. Pepper powder – 2 small spoons
9. Salt – As per taste
10. Soya sauce – 2 big spoons
11. Chilli sauce – 3 big spoons
12. Corn flour – 1 big spoon
13. Honey – 1 big spoon
14. Celery and spring onion chopped – To decorate

How to prepare Sweet and Sour Easy Chicken?

1. Heat 3 big spoons of oil.
2. Add chicken, ½ small spoon pepper powder and salt.
3. Cook chicken till it’s 3/4^th done.
4. Transfer the contents to a dish.
5. Pour the remaining oil into the pan, and sauté the ginger and garlic.
6. Add chopped vegetables and remaining pepper powder.
7. Sauté the vegetables in a high flame for 3 minutes.
8. Add fried chicken and sauces, and sauté again.
9. Cook till chicken is done.
10. Mix cornflour with a little water and add to the chicken.
11. Keep stirring for 2 minutes to avoid the formation of lumps.
12. When the gravy thickens, turn off the flame.
13. Allow the curry to cool a little bit.
14.  When it’s lukewarm, add honey, celery and spring onion.

Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine July 23 – August 5, 2022

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