Sweet-and-Sour Chicken

Name: Sweet-and-Sour Chicken
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1/2 cup, pineapple juice; 1/2 cup, orange juice; 1/2 cup, distilled white vinegar; 1/2 cup, sugar; 3 tablespoons, ketchup; 1/4 teaspoon, red pepper flakes; 1/8 teaspoon, salt; 1 tablespoon, cornstarch; 1 pound, boneless, skinless chicken breasts, trimmed and cut crosswise on slight bias into 1/2-inch-wide strips; , Salt and pepper; 1 cup (5 ounces), all-purpose flour; 1 cup (4 ounces), cornstarch; 2 teaspoons, baking powder; 1/2 teaspoon, baking soda; 1 1/4 cups, water; 3 tablespoons plus 2 quarts, peanut or vegetable oil; 2 , red bell peppers, stemmed, seeded, and cut into 1-inch pieces; 6 , scallions, cut into 1-inch pieces

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By Diane Unger

Appears in Cook's Country June/July 2016

Main Courses

Chinese

Chicken

We set out to create a version of this Chinese American dish with crispy chicken and a lighter sauce.

SERVES4

TIME1½ hours

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For a less sweet sauce, we simmered pineapple juice, orange juice, white vinegar, water, sugar, ketchup, and pepper flakes and then thickened the reduced mixture with cornstarch. For the chicken, we cut boneless breasts into bite-size piece...

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