Recipe
Sweet and Sour Chicken with pineapple and SunWhite Rice
Ingredients
- 2 Chicken Breasts, cut into bite-sized pieces
- 3 tbsp Cornstarch
- Salt And Pepper, to taste
- 3 tbsp Olive Oil
- 1 Red Bell Pepper, chopped into 1cm pieces
- 1 Green Bell Pepper, chopped into 1cm pieces
- 0.5 White Onion, chopped into 1cm pieces
- 1 cup Pineapple, chopped
- 1 Green Onions, sliced into thin rounds for garnish
- Sesame Seeds, for garnish
- 1 cup Sunwhite Medium Grain Rice
- 0.33 cup Sugar
- 0.33 cup Apple Cider Vinegar
- 0.25 cup Ketchup
- 2 tbsp Soy Sauce
- 1 tbsp Sesame Oil
- 1 tbsp Light Brown Sugar
- 3 clove Garlic, minced
- 2 tbsp Cold Water
- 1 tbsp Cornstarch
Method
- In a medium saucepan, add all of the ingredients for the sauce except for the water and cornstarch. Whisk together and bring to a boil.
- In a small bowl, mix together the water and 1 tablespoon cornstarch. Add to the pan, reduce the heat to low and simmer for 5 minutes. Your sauce should thicken as it simmers.
- Remove it from the heat and set it aside while you make your chicken.
- Add the chicken, cornstarch and salt and pepper to a bag and shake to coat.
- Heat olive oil in a large skillet and add the chicken. Cook over medium-high heat for about 7 minutes, until the chicken is cooked through.
- Add additional olive oil if the chicken begins to stick to the pan.
- Add the chopped bell peppers and onion to the pan and stir to combine. Cook for 2 to 3 minutes, until the veggies are just barely tender.
- Add the pineapple chunks to the pan.
- Pour the sauce into the pan. Stir to combine.
- Bring the pan to a boil over medium-high heat and cook until heated through.
- Serve over SunWhite rice and garnish with green onions and sesame seeds.
Medium Grain
Medium grain rice has short, plump grains that cook up soft, moist and slightly sticky — the grains cling together gently, making it easy to serve and eat. Sunwhite® medium grain Calrose rice is grown in Australia and loved across the Middle East for everyday family meals.
Its tender texture makes it ideal for dishes where the rice soaks up rich flavours — kabsa, mansaf, maqluba and machboos — as well as sushi, paella and creamy rice desserts.