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Sweet and sour stir-fried chicken

Name: Sweet and sour stir-fried chicken
Yield: 4 - 6
Ingredients: MARINADE; 45ml (3 tbsp) soy sauce; 20ml (4 tsp) white wine; 5 chicken breasts, skinless and deboned, cut into thin strips; 10ml (2 tsp) cornflour; 45ml (3 tbsp) oil; 1 garlic clove, finely chopped; 20ml (4 tsp) fresh ginger, finely chopped; 2 small carrots, thinly sliced; ½ onion, finely chopped; ½ red pepper, seeded and thinly sliced; ½ yellow pepper, seeded and thinly sliced; 200g oyster mushrooms, sliced; handful bean sprouts; 2 pineapple rings, finely sliced; 2 spring onions, diagonally sliced, plus extra for garnish; 2,5ml (½ tsp) Chinese five-spice; rice, cooked, to serve

July 26, 2017 (Last Updated: November 14, 2018)

A quick and easy weekday meal stuffed to the gill with flavour.

Recipe by Anna Montali

Assisted by Nomvuselelo Mncube

Photograph Graeme Wyllie

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Sweet and sour stir-fried chicken

Serves: 4 - 6

Cooking Time: 20 mins plus 2 hours for marinating

Ingredients

MARINADE
45ml (3 tbsp) soy sauce
20ml (4 tsp) white wine
5 chicken breasts, skinless and deboned, cut into thin strips
10ml (2 tsp) cornflour
45ml (3 tbsp) oil
1 garlic clove, finely chopped
20ml (4 tsp) fresh ginger, finely chopped
2 small carrots, thinly sliced
½ onion, finely chopped
½ red pepper, seeded and thinly sliced
½ yellow pepper, seeded and thinly sliced
200g oyster mushrooms, sliced
handful bean sprouts
2 pineapple rings, finely sliced
2 spring onions, diagonally sliced, plus extra for garnish
2,5ml (½ tsp) Chinese five-spice
rice, cooked, to serve

Instructions

Mix the soy sauce and wine together in a bowl and add the chicken. Rub to coat well and leave to marinate for at least 2 hours.

Roll the marinated chicken pieces in the cornflour.

Heat 30ml (2 tbsp) of the oil in a wok or large frying pan and fry the chicken for a few minutes on all sides, turning until crispy. Remove from the pan and set aside.

Heat the remaining oil in the same pan and sauté the garlic and ginger for a few seconds. Add the carrots, onion, peppers, mushrooms and sprouts and stir-fry for a minute, stirring continuously. Return the chicken to the pan, together with the pineapple, spring onion and five-spice. Mix well, heat through and serve with rice of your choice.