Chicken in sweet and sour sauce in Chinese

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare all the necessary products. In the traditional recipe, as a rule, chicken breast fillets are taken, but it can also be thigh fillets or some other parts of chicken. It is best to take chilled poultry meat - it is much healthier than frozen meat. Choose soy sauce of natural fermentation - do not chase a cheap fake of real soy sauce. It's best if you find a sauce that can be heat-treated, or a marinade sauce.

2. Step 2:

   

   Wash the chicken, dry it and cut it into medium-sized pieces. Since the dish is Chinese, it should be convenient to take a piece of chicken with chopsticks.

3. Step 3:

   

   Salt the chicken to taste, but keep in mind that soy sauce is also quite salty, so take half as much salt as you would take for a regular dish. Also, if desired, you can pepper the chicken or add some other seasonings in dried form.

4. Step 4:

   

   Pour 3 tablespoons of starch into the chicken. It can be either potato or corn. Mix it up. Chicken pieces are panicked in starch.

5. Step 5:

   

   Heat any vegetable oil in a frying pan, put the chicken pieces and fry on all sides for about 10 minutes. Then remove the chicken from the pan.

6. Step 6:

   

   Pour vinegar into the same pan where the chicken was fried. You can take not only apple, but also grape or wine vinegar. Or even the usual 6% vinegar.

7. Step 7:

   

   Then pour in the soy sauce. Simmer everything over low heat.

8. Step 8:

   

   Add sugar.

10. Step 9:

    

    Then ketchup or tomato paste.

11. Step 10:

    

    Now put the chopped garlic in the pan. I put it through the press, but you can grate the clove on a grater or chop it with a knife.

12. Step 11:

    

    Bring to a boil over low heat.

13. Step 12:

    

    Dilute the remaining starch in a glass of cold water.

14. Step 13:

    

    Pour into the pan.

15. Step 14:

    

    Boil for a couple of minutes until thickened.

16. Step 15:

    

    Return the chicken to the pan and stir. Leave for 10 minutes so that each piece is soaked in the sauce.

17. Step 16:

    

    It turns out very tasty! You can serve it with boiled rice. Enjoy your meal!