• A quick and easy weekday meal stuffed to the gill with flavour!

    Perfect for those lazy days or when you’re schedule is just a little too busy. This sweet and sour stir-fried chicken is packed with nutrients while being equally delicious.

    Sweet and sour stir-fried chicken

    Serves: 4 - 6
    Cooking Time: 20 mins plus 2 hours for marinating

    Ingredients

    • MARINADE

    • 45ml (3 tbsp) soy sauce
    • 20ml (4 tsp) white wine
    • 5 chicken breasts, skinless and deboned, cut into thin strips
    • 10ml (2 tsp) cornflour
    • 45ml (3 tbsp) oil
    • 1 garlic clove, finely chopped
    • 20ml (4 tsp) fresh ginger, finely chopped
    • 2 small carrots, thinly sliced
    • ½ onion, finely chopped
    • ½ red pepper, seeded and thinly sliced
    • ½ yellow pepper, seeded and thinly sliced
    • 200g oyster mushrooms, sliced
    • handful bean sprouts
    • 2 pineapple rings, finely sliced
    • 2 spring onions, diagonally sliced, plus extra for garnish
    • 2,5ml (½ tsp) Chinese five-spice
    • rice, cooked, to serve

    Instructions

    1

    Mix the soy sauce and wine together in a bowl and add the chicken. Rub to coat well and leave to marinate for at least 2 hours.

    2

    Roll the marinated chicken pieces in the cornflour.

    3

    Heat 30ml (2 tbsp) of the oil in a wok or large frying pan and fry the chicken for a few minutes on all sides, turning until crispy. Remove from the pan and set aside.

    4

    Heat the remaining oil in the same pan and sauté the garlic and ginger for a few seconds. Add the carrots, onion, peppers, mushrooms and sprouts and stir-fry for a minute, stirring continuously. Return the chicken to the pan, together with the pineapple, spring onion and five-spice. Mix well, heat through and serve with rice of your choice.

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    Recipe by Anna Montali

    Assisted by Nomvuselelo Mncube

    Photograph Graeme Wyllie

    Author

    Imka Webb is a freelance digital marketing expert and the digital editor of Food & Home Entertaining magazine.  www.imkawebb.com

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