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Overview of How to Make this Recipe:
- Cube the chicken breast. Add salt, pepper, and coat with corn starch.
- Lightly beat 3 eggs in a shallow dish.
- Heat oil in a high-walled pot.
- Dredge coated chicken pieces in egg, and cook in hot oil until golden brown.
- Mix sauce ingredients. Pour sauce over chicken pieces and toss to coat.
- In a baking dish, bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour.
Kitchen Kit
- large kitchen knife & cutting board (for cubing the chicken)
- shallow dish & fork (for the eggs)
- high-walled pot & tongs (for browning the chicken)
- large bowl (for tossing chicken together with the sauce)
- baking dish (for baking the chicken)
Ingredients
chicken breasts – about 4 boneless, skinless
salt & pepper
3/4 cup cornstarch
3 eggs, slightly beaten
1/4 cup oil – canola, vegetable, olive – more if needed
1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
4 tbsp ketchup
1 tbsp soy sauce
3/4 cup sugar – or less, to taste
1 tsp garlic salt
Instructions:
- Cube chicken into 1 inch pieces.
- Season with salt & pepper.
- Add 3/4 cup cornstarch to chicken and toss to coat.
- In a shallow dish, whisk together the 3 eggs.
- Heat 1/4 cup oil in a large, heavy bottomed, high-walled pot.
- Dip the cornstarch-dredged chicken pieces into the beaten egg, coat, and transfer to the hot oil.
- Cook chicken about 30 seconds per side just until golden brown.
- Continue dipping and cooking all the chicken pieces.
- Combine all the sauce ingredients in a large bowl – the apple cider vinegar, ketchup, soy sauce, sugar, and garlic salt.
- Taste-test the sauce to your liking.
- Add all the golden brown chicken pieces to the large bowl and coat with the sauce.
- Once nicely coated, pour everything into a 9×13 baking dish.
- Bake uncovered at 325 degrees for 1 hour.
- Turn the chicken once or twice during the baking to coat everything nicely in the sauce.
Suggestions
- Add sliced onions to the sauce to mix in with the chicken prior to baking.
- Add cubed pineapple to the sauce to mix in with the chicken prior to baking.
- Serve over steamed white rice.
- Serve with a side of steamed broccoli.