Sweet & Sour Chicken

Prep: 10 min🔥 Cook: 20 min Total: 30 min🍽 Serves 4 Easy
Low-carb fork: Serve over cauliflower rice or sautéed cabbage.

Ingredients

Chicken

  • 2boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into 1-inch chunks
  • ½ cupcornstarch
  • 2eggs, beaten
  • 3 tbspvegetable oil
  • to tastesalt & pepper

Vegetables

  • 1red bell pepper, chunked
  • 1green bell pepper, chunked
  • 1 can (20 oz)pineapple chunks, drained (reserve juice)

Sweet & Sour Sauce

  • ½ cupreserved pineapple juice
  • ⅓ cupketchup
  • ⅓ cuprice vinegar
  • ¼ cupbrown sugar
  • 2 tbspsoy sauce
  • 1 tspfresh ginger, grated
  • 1 tbspcornstarch (slurry with 2 tbsp water)

To Serve

  • 2 cupswhite rice (dry)

Instructions

1Cook rice per package directions.
2Season chicken with salt & pepper. Dip in beaten egg, then toss in cornstarch to coat. Rest 2 min so the coating sets.
3Heat oil in large skillet over medium-high. Cook chicken in 2 batches (don't crowd) until golden and cooked through, 4–5 min per batch. Remove to plate.
4In same pan, sauté bell peppers 2 min, then add pineapple chunks.
5Whisk sauce ingredients (except slurry) and pour in. Bring to simmer, add slurry, cook until thickened, ~2 min.
6Return chicken to pan, toss to coat. Serve over rice.