Baked Sweet & Sour Chicken: Fried Rice

Baked Sweet & Sour Chicken

Warning- this is REALLY good.  And worth the effort.  It's easy but takes some time to cook (1 hour) So get it into the oven then make the rest of your meal. Which for me gives it 1 more star of awesomeness.  Preheat oven to 325F 

• 3-4 chicken breasts cubed
• 1/2 cup corn startch
• 2 eggs beaten 
• salt and pepper 
• 1/8 cup oil 

Sauce:

• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1/3 cup vinegar
• 4 tablespoons Ketchup
• 1 tablespoon Soya Sauce

 Take your cubed chicken and season with salt and pepper. Then take each piece, dip into cornstartch, then egg and set aside.  Once every piece is done heat your oil in a large saucepan and then brown the chicken.  Turn several times and try to keep the pieces from sticking together

ready to go into the oven

Place into a 9x13 greased pan. Whisk together the sauce ingredients- pour over top and place into the oven.  Cook for 1 hour. Every 15 minutes stir the chicken so it gets covered again by the sauce.  Cook the entire hour it takes that long for the sauce to start to cook down to the proper texture. Serve spooning sauce over top

All done and ready to eat!

Fried Rice

This is my son's favorite thing.  I mixed it up a bit by using the non traditional veggies (Carrots and peas).

• two cups rice cooked
• 1/8 cup soya sauce
• 2 eggs
• veggies- frozen
• 1 clove garlic minced
• 2 tablespoons oil (Sesame if you have it)

Heat the oil put in the frozen veggies and garlic over medium heat. Beat the eggs.  Move the veggies to one side of the sauce pan and poor the egg to the other side.  Think scrambled eggs. Cook the eggs for a minute or two then mix in with the veggies. 

Add the Rice, soya sauce  Stir and cook for a couple minutes then remove from heat and serve.