Friday night fakeaway: How to make sweet and sour chicken

How to easily recreate one of our favourite takeaway dishes

There’s no better feeling than sitting down on a Friday night and tucking into your favourite takeaway. What’s not so great is feeling like you’ve done the dog on it afterwards. Now we’re all for treating ourselves once in a while but if you’re trying to be that little bit healthier then we’ve got you sorted.

Whether your local is closed and you've found yourself missing your sweet and sour fix or you're just looking to ease up on the takeaways, this is the perfect recipe for you. Not to mention it’s much cheaper to make at home and it's so tasty you won’t even notice the difference!

Our resident foodie Greedy Guts has us sorted with the popular dish that’s so easy to recreate.

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Friday night fakeaway: How to make sweet and sour chicken

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Ingredients:

5 chicken breasts

2 tbsp light soy sauce

Garlic clove finely chopped

1 cup plain white flour

1 onion

1 tomato

3 spring onions

For the sauce:

85g brown sugar

4 tbsp tomato ketchup

2 tbsp light soy sauce

5 tbsp white vinegar

85ml pineapple juice

1/2 tsp Chinese five spice

2 tsp cornflour

Method:

Cut your chicken and toss in a large bowl with soy sauce, garlic and seasoning.

For the sauce, add your sugar, ketchup, soy sauce, vinegar, pineapple juice and Chinese five spice into a pot and simmer on a medium heat.

Let it simmer until the sugar dissolves.

Then combine cornflour with 2 tbsp of water.

Add the cornflour mixture to the sauce and simmer for about 2 minutes to let it thicken. Remove from heat and set aside once it has thickened.

Pour about an inch of vegetable oil into a wok over a high heat.

Place flour in a large bowl and add your chicken. Toss lightly to coat.

Amy recommends doing this in small batches and adding the coated chicken to oil one by one.

Be very careful with the oil as it can splatter.

Cook your chicken in the oil until golden brown. Drain and pop them on a plate with some kitchen roll to remove excess oil.

Next fry your onions and add the tomatoes.

Add in the sauce and chicken.

Toss in the spring onions and serve.

Have you tried this? Let us know what you think!