Sweet & Sour Chicken with Bamboo Shoots

Ingredients

• Chicken
• Shitake Mushroom
• Bamboo Shoots
• Capsicum
• Pineapple
• Sweet & Sour sauce (water, sugar, salt, pepper, pineapple juice, tomato sauce, rice wine vinegar)
• Batter (flour, cornflour, baking powder, bicarb soda, water, oil)
• Chicken marinade (water, garlic powder, onion powder, sesame oil, salt)
• Red onion
• Cornflour

Method

1. Prepare sweet & sour sauce and batter and set aside.
2. Cut chicken thigh meat into chunks and marinade for 15minutes
3. Heat 2 tblsp canola oil in a wok. Chop capsicum and onion into chunks and fry for a minute. Add the sauce, stir through and remove from heat.
4. Heat some oil for frying in a med sized saucepan. Coat chicken in batter and fry in small batches until light golden brown and crispy. Drain on kitchen paper and set aside.
5. Reheat veg and sauce. Mix cornflour with a little water to make a slurry. Stir through veg to thicken sauce. Add pineapple chunks, drained bamboo shoots and chicken. Stir to coat everything and serve immediately

Product used in recipe

• Valcom - Valcom Bamboo Shoot Slices