Easiest Way to Cook Delicious Sweet and Sour Chicken Low Calorie

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Sweet and Sour Chicken Low Calorie. Season chicken with salt and black pepper and place in the skillet/wok. Low Calorie Sweet and Sour Chicken. Sweet and sour chicken is a delicious and wildly popular dish found in most Chinese restaurants.

Sweet and Sour Chicken Low Calorie Try The Best Fried Rice, Honey Sriracha Chicken, Sticky Chinese Lemon Chicken, and Kung Pao Noodles. Mix together the juice, brown sugar, vinegar and soy sauce until blended. Stir into skillet; bring to a boil. You can cook Sweet and Sour Chicken Low Calorie using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Sweet and Sour Chicken Low Calorie

  1. It's 4 of chicken breasts.
  2. It's 1 of chopped onion.
  3. Prepare 2 of peppers chopped green and red.
  4. It's 1 can of water chestnuts.
  5. You need 2 cloves of garlic crushed.
  6. It's 1 tablespoon of grated Ginger.
  7. Prepare 2 tbsp of oil.
  8. It's 1 can of pineapple chunks.
  9. Prepare 2 tbsp of corn flour.
  10. Prepare 150 ml of water.
  11. Prepare 2 tbsp of dark soy sauce.
  12. Prepare 2 tbsp of white wine vinegar.
  13. It's 2 tbsp of soft brown sugar.
  14. Prepare 2 tbsp of tomato ketchup.
  15. Prepare to taste of chilli flakes.

Return the chicken to the pan and add the ketchup mixture. Cook until bubbly and the sauce coats the chicken. Serve in shallow bowls over rice. Sweet and sour chicken is sometimes made with breaded chicken, something that I have omitted as that would add carbs and calories to this recipe.

Sweet and Sour Chicken Low Calorie instructions

  1. To make sauce, drain pine apple juice add three tablespoons of it to corn flour. Make a paste.
  2. Add rest of juice, water, soy, vinegar, sugar, tomato ketchup, and chilli..
  3. Chop chicken..
  4. Add oil to wok stir and fry onions and peppers for five minutes..
  5. Add chicken..
  6. After five minutes, add garlic and ginger, pineapple and water chestnuts, and stir fry for one minute..
  7. Then add sauce to wok, stir well and season with salt & pepper to taste. Simmer till chicken is cooked..
  8. Enjoy.

For anyone wanting breaded chicken, and a good hack, tried using chicken nuggets (they are available in white meat btw) or you can refer to one of these low carb chicken recipes instead. Add the chicken and toss until well coated. Heat a large nonstick wok until blazing hot. Coat the bottom of the pan with the canola oil. Add the chicken to the pan and move continuously to prevent chicken from sticking together.