Sweet Sour chicken (Japanese style)

Steps Making Recipes Sweet Sour chicken (Japanese style) using 20 ingredients and 7 steps

Sweet Sour chicken (Japanese style) - Sweet and sour chicken is one of the most popular Chinese recipes. Chinese sweet and sour is a cooking style that is easy, delicious and everyone's favorite. The dish comes complete with crispy fried chicken cubes with mouthwatering sweet and sour sauce. It goes well with steamed rice, fried rice or chow mein. This recipe was not what I was expecting - it didn't taste anything like sweet & sour chicken.

All you could taste was soy sauce and it wasn't even sweet or sour for that matter.

The color was not appealing either it was almost black (like soy sauce) when it came out of the oven.

You can cook Sweet Sour chicken (Japanese style) using 20 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients make Sweet Sour chicken (Japanese style)

1. You need 2 chicken thighs.
2. You need 3 midium potato.
3. It's 2 midium size lotus root (rencon).
4. It's 1/2 carrot.
5. It's 1/2 onion.
6. Prepare 1/2 bell pepper (green/ red/ yellow) or mix.
7. It's 1/2 cup potato/ corn starch.
8. Prepare Oil.
9. Prepare For Marinade.
10. Prepare 2 tbs soy sauce.
11. Prepare 1 tbs cooking sake.
12. You need 1 tsp ginger garlic paste.
13. Prepare For Sauce.
14. Prepare 4 Tbsp granulated sugar.
15. You need 3 Tbsp apple cider vinegar.
16. It's 2 Tbsp soy sauce.
17. You need 1 Tbsp mirin.
18. It's 1 Tbsp water.
19. It's 1 Tbsp sake.
20. It's 2 tsp potato/corn starch.

Sweet Sour chicken (Japanese style) step by step

1. Combine all ingredients for marinade in a large bowl..
2. Clean and cut chicken in bite size pieces and add them to the marinade. Keep aside in refrigerator for 10-15 min..
3. Combine all ingredients for sauce making sure no lumps are formed..
4. Dice Onion, potato, carrot and bell pepper. Slice lotus root in rings. As potato and carrot takes time to cook, boil them for 10 min or until they are tender. Shallow fry all vegetables until they are tender. Do not crowd lotus roots as they become sticky before getting cooked..
5. Take marinated chicken, coat in starch and deep fry until it becomes golden brown. Drain excess oil with paper towel..
6. Combine vegetables and fried chicken in a pan, heat them evenly and pour sauce over. Keep tossing, this will thicken sauce n create even coat on chicken and vegetables..
7. If you like garnish with coriander and serve..

Sweet Sour chicken (Japanese style) - A recipe that fits the bill perfectly is sweet and sour chicken, which is influenced by Asian cooking styles. Asian cuisine may refer to ingredients and cooking methods that come from Asian or East Asian countries, including China, Japan, Korea, and others. A copycat recipe of "Tori Kurozu-An" from Ootoya 大戸屋, this Japanese-style Sweet and Sour Chicken uses black rice vinegar in the sauce to create a deep, malty savory flavor. Sweet and sour dishes from Chinese restaurants are really popular and my children love them whether it's made with chicken or pork. Absolutely the best sweet and sour chicken recipe I've ever tried. My husband and I thought it was delicious. One comment about the directions: the amount of water to add to the chicken batter is a little hard to interperate. Thank you and good luck