Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Sweet & Sour Chicken Recipe

If you've read either Beth or I's blog or talked to us about things we miss from back home, you no doubt know that we have been unable to find good Chinese food here in Hong Kong. So...we have taken upon ourselves to recreate those longed-for dishes in our own, tiney kitchen.

Our first dish to tackle was Sweet & Sour Chicken. We scoured the internet for a sauce recipe that looked good. The recipe below is a modification to what we found. We reduced the vinegar, reduced the cornstarch and increased the water. Enjoy!:

1/8 cup white vinegar
2 tsp. soy sauce
1 1/2 tbl. cornstarch
1/2 cup white sugar
1/4 cup pineapple juice
3/8 cup water

combine and boil. simmer gently for 5 minutes.

what's that? you need a recipe for the chicken? Oh, come on...it's chicken, you can figure it out!

Next dish to tackle? General Tsao's Chicken...mmm!

4 comments:

Cam-Fu said...

That's unfortunate that you guys can't find a good Chinese restaurant in Hong Kong. In Beijing, I had some of the best Chinese food that I have ever had in my entire life.

Anonymous said...

If you find a good recipe for General Tsos chicken...

Anonymous said...

I meant...
I love General Tsos chicken, if you find a good recipe for General Tsos chicken... let me know! =)

Beth Danae said...

umm, how can you let the anonymous person in on a recipe, I mean their anonymous for goodness sake!

Also, we can obviously find Chinese food here, just not American Chinese food, which of course isn't actually Chinese at all...