Sweet and Sour Chicken
This is yet another winning recipe from Melanie at My Kitchen Cafe. She used to have this recipe up on her favorites bar, and I knew I wanted to make it from my first visit to her site. It looked exactly like something Mike would love, and I was right. He raved about this when I made it, and even when I heated up the leftovers the second night. It tastes just like sweet and sour chicken you would order in a restaurant. It’s a little messy and time consuming to make, but totally worth it. It’s gotten rave reviews on Melanie’s site, and as I mentioned, Mike and I both loved it.
Sweet and Sour Chicken
Ingredients:
Chicken:
3-4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
Salt and pepper
1 cup cornstarch
2 eggs, beaten
1/4 cup canola oil
Sauce:
¾ cup sugar
4 tablespoons ketchup
½ cup vinegar
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 teaspoon garlic salt
Directions:
Cut chicken into chunks. Season with salt and pepper. Dip chicken into cornstarch and then in egg. Fry in a little bit of oil until brown but not cooked through. Place in a single layer in a baking dish. Mix sauce ingredients together and pour over the chicken.
Bake for one hour at 325 degrees. Turn chicken every 15 minutes.
*If you like extra sauce, make another batch of sauce and bring it to a boil on the stovetop. Stir constantly and let cook over medium heat until thickened and reduced - about 6-8 minutes. I decided to make the extra sauce and I'm glad I did, especially since we re-heated it the next night also.
from My Kitchen Cafe
Welcome! I'm Megan and it's my hope that here you'll find food that has been made with love and recipes that are shared with joy. Thanks for stopping by! 
I haven't made too many dishes like this at home, but I'd love to.
I love sweet and sour chicken, but just haven't tried making it myself! I may have to try one! Looks great!
So glad you like this! (Your husband and mine must have similar food tastes!)
I love sweet and sour chicken but have never made it at home. This recipe looks perfect.
My husband loves sweet and sour chicken! Thanks for the recipe…looks delicious!
Melanie – Thanks so much for another great recipe. I'm trying to pace myself so I'm not constantly cooking things from your site 🙂
Pam – if you're going to make sweet and sour chicken, this is definitely the recipe I'd recommend – I haven't seen any negative reviews! 🙂
Karly – This dish is proven to be popular with the husbands 🙂
It looks so easy! I think my daughter will love this too!
I'm a new follower – I found you through Kristin's page. Your sweet and sour chicken recipe looks so good I'm going to make it for dinner tonight! 🙂 I really want to try the gingerbread pancakes on my children some time, they also look good!
Emily – Welcome! Thanks for saying hi 🙂 I hope you like this recipe as much as we did 🙂
Ooh, that looks delicious! I love sweet and sour chicken but I've never found a recipe that I love. Adding this to my list of things to make!
Wow! This looks so good! Bookmarking this one for sure!
Just to update you, my entire family LOVED it! 🙂 When you get all 5 of us on the same page, it is amazing! Thank you! Very very good!
Emily – I'm so glad your whole family loved it! Thanks for stopping back to let me know. 🙂
I love this! It looks sooooo GOOD!
This looks great Megan! We love Sweet and Sour Chicken. I love your blog too.
This looks delicious too!!!!!! I can almost taste it.
One never tires of sweet and sour anything. The flavors just wake up the palate no matter what time of year. You have me craving some now.
My brother and I just made this for dinner, it was delicious! We added a couple of handfuls of cut up pineapple to the chicken halfway through the baking! It turned out great, our family loved it!
Megan – I'm so glad you liked it! Pineapple sounds so good in this, I think I'll add that next time as well 🙂
One of the best recipes I have ever tried! We had it this past Saturday and my daughter asked me to cook it again today.
Helen – I'm so glad you and your daughter both liked it! Thanks so much for stopping back to let me know 🙂
That looks amazing! Sweet and sour chicken is one of my favorites!
we had this for dinner tonight. everyone loved it, which is really a feat! thanks so much:)
oh and i almost completely botched the recipe by thinking it said corn syrup instead of corn starch. ha! that would have been something else.
Wow was this ever delicious. I made this for our dinner tonight and am very happy that there are plenty of leftovers for tomorrow as well! I took your advice and made extra sauce and I'm glad I did. Thanks for the wonderful recipe!
snbjork – I'm so glad you liked it! Thanks so much for stopping back to let me know. Sorry for the delayed response to your comment, but I love hearing positive reviews!
Yummy! And very easy to make
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Ooh my husband would absolutely LOVE this! I planned on making the BBQ chicken recipe but now I’m not sure! Thanks for sharing! Oh and have you tried frying in coconut oil? I made empanadas last week and fried them in coconut oil! Couldn’t even tell the difference! 🙂
Is the vinegar necessary?