Sweet and sour chicken
12/04/13 Canteen recipes, Healthy Eating, Help for Parents, Hot meals, Recipes
This recipe was developed by Robyn Kirby from Moss Vale High School
Ingredients
(Serve 16)
- 6 cups long grain rice
- 1 onion, diced, (optional)
- 2 teaspoon garlic, minced
- 1 red capsicum, diced
- 1 green capsicum, diced
- 1 kg cooked chicken breast
Sweet and sour Sauce
- 1 litre reduced salt chicken stock
- ½ cup tomato sauce
- 60ml apple cider vinegar
- 3 tablespoon reduced salt soy sauce
- 1 large tin (825g) pineapple pieces including juice
- 1 small pack (500g) frozen mixed vegetables
- 1 teaspoon ginger, grated
- 6 tablespoons corn flour mixed with approximately ½ cup water
Method
1. Cook rice.
2. In a large pot, sauté onion, capsicum, garlic and chicken for 5 mins, stirring occasionally.
3. Add chicken stock followed by all other sauce ingredients except for the corn flour mixture. Simmer until cooked through.
4. Remove from heat, add corn flour mixture and stir to thicken the sauce.
5. Serve into foil trays with rice and cover with a lid.
Tip
Keep warm in a medium pie oven until service.
Nutrition Information
Per serve (320g) | Per 100g |
|
|---|---|---|
| Energy (kJ) | 1890 | 589 |
| Protein (g) | 23 | 7 |
| Fat- Total (g) | 5.7 | 1.8 |
| Fat- Saturated (g) | 1.6 | 0.5 |
| Carbohydrate- Total (g) | 75 | 23 |
| Carbohydrate- Sugar (g) | 9.5 | 3 |
| Sodium (mg) | 435 | 135 |
| Fibre (g) | 2.4 | 0.7 |






