Chicken thighs – 800 gms, cut into small bite size pieces
Sugar – ½ cup
White vinegar – ¼ cup
Apple cider vinegar – ¼ cup
Tomato ketchup – ¼ cup
Soy sauce – 1 tbsp (Use regular or dark but not light soy sauce)
Garlic powder – 1 tsp
Corn flour / corn starch – 1 cup
Egg – 2, beaten
Vegetable oil – 1 cup
Sesame seed – 1 tsp
Green onion for garnish
Salt & pepper to taste
Instructions
In a bowl, whisk together sugar, white vinegar, apple aider vinegar, ketchup, soy sauce and garlic powder to make a uniform sweet & sour sauce. Set it aside.
Preheat oven at 160 C / 325 F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Set it aside until needed.
Cut boneless & skinless chicken thighs into small bite size pieces. Season it with salt & pepper (go easy with salt as the sauces used are already very salty).
Add corn flour / corn starch to the chicken and give a good mix using a spatula or your hands to coat each piece evenly with corn flour.
Now take one chicken piece at a time and dip it in the beaten egg, lift it up and let the excess drip off. Put the dipped chicken in a bowl. Dip all the chicken pieces separately in eggs and set them aside.
Now heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan or skillet. Add the coated chicken pieces and fry them in batches until light golden on both sides. This would take about 2 minutes each side on medium-high flame. The chicken will not be completely cooked through at this stage and that’s what we want as we will be baking them in oven.
Once all the chicken pieces are fried, put them into a large bowl and pour ¾th of the prepared sweet & sour sauce on top. Mix them with a spatula evenly coating each piece with the sauce.
Arrange the coated chicken pieces on the prepared baking sheet in a single layer. Brush extra sauce on top.
Bake the chicken in preheated oven for 30 minutes. Then take them out and flip the chicken over. Brush some more sauce on the flipped side of the chicken and broil them for 10 more minutes.
Sprinkle sesame seeds and garnish with freshly chopped green onions. Serve your baked sweet and sour chicken with rice and drizzle extra sauce on top! Enjoy!
Recipe by Flavor Quotient at http://www.flavorquotient.com/2017/04/baked-sweet-and-sour-chicken/