Sweet and Sour Chicken

Name: Sweet and Sour Chicken
Yield: Makes 4 portions
Ingredients: 50 ml/2 fl oz water; ½–1 tbsp maple syrup; 2 tbsp rice wine vinegar; 2 tbsp tomato ketchup; 2 tbsp apple juice; 1 tsp cornflour; 1 tbsp soy sauce; cooked rice, to serve; salt and pepper; 4 spring onions, sliced; 2 tbsp sunflower oil; 2 skinless chicken breasts, diced; 2 tbsp cornflour; 1 tbsp milk; 75 g/3 oz baby corn; 1 egg yolk; 75 g/3 oz butternut squash, peeled and diced; 100 g/3½ oz broccoli florets

Preparation info

Makes
4
portions

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Real Food Kids Will Love

By Annabel Karmel

Published 2018

About

Here’s a Chinese takeaway favourite that the whole family can enjoy at home. The twist? My recipe is both healthy and super tasty! With succulent chicken and a special sweet ‘n’ sour sauce, it’s so tasty children are bound to lap up all the veggies too. Clean plates all round.

Ingredients

75 g/3 oz butternut squash, peeled and diced
100 g/3½

Main course

Method

Steam the diced butternut squash in a steamer for 5 minutes, then add the broccoli and baby corn and steam for a further 4 minutes until the vegetables are tender.

Beat the egg yolk, milk and cornflour together in a bowl. Add the diced chicken, lightly season with salt and pepper and stir to coat the chicken in the batter.

Combine the sweet and sour sauce ingredients in a bowl.<