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Sweet & sour chicken

Preparing the ingredients in advance means you can stir-fry the veg quickly to keep it fresh and crunchy.

Preparing the ingredients in advance means you can stir-fry the veg quickly to keep it fresh and crunchy.

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Cooking Time

Cook: 35 Mins

Cooking Time

Serves: 4

Cooking Time

Price: £1.74 per serving

Nutritional Information

Each 469g serving contains

Energy
1928kj
460kcal
23%
Fat
8.9g
Med
13%
Saturates
1.5g
Med
7%
Sugars
25.5g
High
28%
Salt
2.6g
High
44%
2
of your 5-a-day
of your reference intake.
Typical energy values per 100g:
411kj/98kcal

Ingredients

4 tbsp Amoy Reduced Salt Soy Sauce

2 tbsp Asda Sweet Chilli Sauce

2 tbsp cider vinegar

2 tbsp clear honey

75ml orange juice

4 level tsp of cornflour

2 tbsp sunflower oil

4 chicken breast fillets, cut into bite-size pieces

200g carrots, cut into short sticks

1 pepper, quartered, de-seeded and cut into strips

2 spring onions, trimmed and sliced

155g pack mangetout, sliced lengthways

300g fresh pineapple (weighed without skin and core), cut into bite-size pieces

Rice, to serve

Method

1
To make the sweet and sour sauce, mix the soy sauce, sweet chilli sauce, vinegar, honey, orange juice and cornflour until smooth. Add 50ml of water and set aside.
2
Heat 1 tbsp of the oil in a wok and stir-fry the chicken for 4 minutes or until just cooked through. Remove from the pan and set aside.
3
Wipe out the wok with kitchen paper. Add the rest of the oil to the wok and stir-fry the prepared carrots, red pepper, spring onions and mangetout for about 3-4 minutes.
4
Return the chicken to the wok and add the pinepple. Stir-fry until hot.
5
Stir the sweet and sour sauce, add to the wok and cook, stirring, until it boils and thickens. Serve with rice.