Easy Sweet and Sour Chicken
Make our incredible, 20-minute Easy Sweet and Sour Chicken for dinner with this quick recipe. Choose between our Minute® White Rice or Minute® Brown Rice, for great taste and speedy cooking.
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Ingredients
- 1 tbsp canola oil
- 1 lb boneless, skinless chicken breast, cut into bite-size pieces
- 2 cups frozen stir-fry vegetables
- 1 can (8 oz) pineapple chunks in juice, undrained
- 1/2 cup sweet and sour sauce
- 1 cup water
- 2 cups Minute® White Rice or Minute® Brown Rice
Instructions
Short on time? There’s no need to order takeout! Minute® Rice has you covered with this Easy Sweet and Sour Chicken recipe. This takeout style dish is sure to become everyone’s favorite weekday meal!
Step 1
Heat oil in a large, nonstick skillet on medium-high heat. Add chicken. Cook, stirring occasionally, for 3 to 5 minutes or until chicken is browned.
Step 2
Add vegetables, pineapple chunks and their juice and the sweet and sour sauce to skillet. Stir in water. Bring mixture to a boil.
Step 3
Stir in rice and cover. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer for 5 minutes. Remove saucepan from heat. Let stand for 5 minutes or until almost all of the liquid is absorbed and rice is tender.
Half Sweet, Half Sour, 100% Easy
Dinner doesn’t get much simpler than our Easy Sweet and Sour Chicken! This recipe is ready in just 20 minutes and, aside from rice, water, and a bit of cooking oil, it only requires 4 simple ingredients. How about that for quick and easy?
Better yet, the simple ingredients you need are all easy to find in your local market. You’ll need frozen stir-fry vegetables, one can of pineapple chunks with juice, sweet and sour sauce, and boneless, skinless chicken breast.
This recipe serves up to four guests. Or, make it for two hungry diners, and you’ll have enough for seconds or for lunch the following day.
Cook up this classic sweet and sour chicken dinner tonight for the perfect weekday meal. If you are looking for meat-free meal options, once you give this Vegetarian Fried Rice with Egg recipe a try, it will become part of your weekly rotation!
The Right Rice
It’s no surprise that every rice dish requires specific grains. From white rice to our wild and brown rice mix, it can be hard to choose which one to use. For this recipe, we’ve chosen our Minute® White Rice. It has an optimal cooking time and its fluffy grains are a great complement to the recipe’s sticky sauce. For another tasty recipe you can make with white rice, check out this Mexican rice in a box recipe.
However, you can also make this dish with our Minute® Brown Rice, if you’re looking to boost your diet with a dose of whole grains.
