Sweet & Sour Chicken

[PaulaM]

Sweet & Sour Chicken:
Maybe 4:

Ingredients:
3cm piece of ginger
2 cloves garlic
1 large onion (sliced by hand or in TM - I prefer big long shapes so by hand)
20g Olive Oil
1 tablespoon raw sugar
4 tablespoons soy sauce
225g tin of pineapple
1 large carrot (sliced)
1 large red capsicum (sliced)
6 large mushrooms (roughly chopped)
1 tomato (roughly chopped)
2 tablespoons tomato paste
1 tablespoon vinegar
2 tablespoons corn flour
100ml water
600g chicken breast (diced)


Preparation:
Add ginger and garlic to TM bowl and chop 2 sec speed 7
You can also add onion in with ginger and garlic to be chopped if you have not sliced it by hand.
Add sliced onion and saute 3 minutes, Varoma, Reverse (only if you have used hand sliced onions), Speed 1

Add sugar, soy sauce, tinned pineapple including juice, sliced carrot, sliced capsicum, chopped mushrooms, tomato, tomato paste and vinegar. Cook 100 degrees, Reverse, speed 1, 7 minutes

Add chicken

Mix corn flour and water together in separate glass and pour as much as required into TM bowl. O find the consstency of the sauce varies depending on the size of tomatoes etc so it is a bit of a wait and see approach as to how much thickening is required with corn flour.

Cook a further 10 minutes, 100 degrees, Reverse, speed 1

Serve with steamed rice


Tips/Hints:
I don't know how authentic this recipe is but the flavours are very nice. I add whatever vegies I have in the fridge, ie some snow peas or corn

Hope you like it, this is my first recipe conversion so fingers crossed! I can't figure out how to add a picture, will post when I figure it out  

members' comments

bigTcup - Had this one - YUMM!  Didn't add mushrooms (I don't like them) & steamed broccolini, snowpeas & asparagus when I was cooking the rice.  I wanted to use baby corn instead of asparagus but the green grocer didn't have any.  Great, easy meal.  Will certainly be having this one again.

Disinterested - Made this whilst DW was out today and the kids said "this is yum you are nearly as good as mum".
One thing I did different was just chuck all the veggies in the pot and whiz them on full speed for a second or two.... beats choppin'.
Thanks for the recipe.

foodgroupie -  great week day meal!! family really enjoyed it, served with rice and steam veg, yum.

[judydawn]

Thanks for your first recipe Paula - sweet & sour anything is always a favourite.

[PaulaM]

thanks Judydawn, I'm munching away as we speak and thinking celery, thats always good in it too!

[achookwoman]

Well done PaulM.  This will a good one to try as it looks simple and tasty.

[bigTcup]

Had this one tonight - YUMM!  Didn't add mushrooms (I don't like them) & steamed broccolini, snowpeas & asparagus when I was cooking the rice.  I wanted to use baby corn instead of asparagus but the green grocer didn't have any.  Great, easy meal.  Will certainly be having this one again.

[Disinterested]

Hello

My wife bought a thermomix a few weeks ago and I have been giving her a pretty good bagging about how it cant cook steak or sausages.... but

While she was out today I cooked this recipe for dinner and the kids said "this is yum you are nearly as good as mum".

haha I own the thermomix.

One thing I did different was just chuck all the veggies in the pot and whiz them on full speed for a second or two.... beats choppin'.

Thanks for the recipe.

[judydawn]

Hi Disinterested, welcome to the forum with your first posting.  You are wrong you know, check out these recipes 

Steak cooked in the varoma

Moroccan sausages

Curried sausages plus here

Bangers & mash in a tasty onion gravy

[cookie1]

Welcome disinterested. I had a laugh at that, thanks for sharing it with us. What are you going to try next?

[foodgroupie]

wife made this the other night, great week day meal!! family really enjoyed it, served with rice n steam veg yum

[obbie]

Hi  Disinterested, Judy to the rescue again.

I hope you get to enjoy the thermie.