🍍 Sweet and Sour Chicken with Pineapple and Rice

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Chicken stir-fried with peppers and pineapple in a homemade sweet and sour sauce of ketchup and vinegar, served over rice. Better than a takeaway.

⏱️ 25 min🍽️ 2 servings👩‍🍳 Easy🔥 627 kcal per serving💪 41 g protein per serving

Ingredients

  • 300 g chicken breast
  • 200 g tinned pineapple
  • 1 pepper red pepper
  • 1 pepper green pepper
  • 1 onion onion
  • 120 g long-grain rice
  • 3 tbsp tomato ketchup
  • 2 tbsp soy sauce
  • 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • 1 tbsp cornflour
  • 1 tbsp olive oil

Method, step by step

  1. Cook the rice in salted water (12 minutes) and drain.
  2. Mix the sauce: ketchup, vinegar, soy sauce, sugar and the cornflour dissolved in 100 ml of water.
  3. Dice the chicken and brown it in a large frying pan with the oil for 5 minutes. Set aside.
  4. Stir-fry the onion and chopped peppers for 4 minutes, add the drained pineapple and return the chicken to the pan.
  5. Pour in the sauce and cook for 3-4 minutes until thick and glossy. Serve over the rice.

Nutritional information (per serving)

627
kcal
41 g
protein
91 g
carbs
11 g
fat

Values are approximate.

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