Name of Recipe:  Sweet and Sour Chicken

Number of People:  4

Ingredients:
3cm piece ginger peeled
2 cloves garlic peeled
1 onion peeled and halved
50g oil
1 tsp raw sugar
4 chicken thighs (approx 600g) cubed bite-size
1 tbsp soy sauce
225g tin pineapple pieces and juice
1 red capsicum chopped
1 roma tomato chopped

Preparation:
Add ginger, garlic and onion
Chop for 2 secs speed 6
Add oil
Sauté for 3 mins Varoma speed 1
Add sugar, chicken thigh cubes
Cook 4 mins Varoma Reverse speed 1
Add 1 tbsp soy sauce, pineapple pieces and juice, capsicum and tomato
Cook further 9 mins 100deg C on Reverse speed  1
Serve with rice or steamed vegetables.

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Tips/Hints:
I've adapted the coconut chicken from Thermomix’s Budget Busters cookbook to work with ingredients from a sweet and sour pork recipe from the Woman’s Day “Cooking for Slimmers” cookbook, but keeping the chicken. The original recipe didn't suggest adding corn flour to thicken the sauce which suited me as I have always enjoyed the consistency of the meal.

Suitable to freeze - JD

members' comments

Katcme - I made this tonight and followed the recipe to a T and ended up with shredded chicken. :/ Was it definitely speed 1 not soft speed?

Amy - after reading Katcme's comment, I cooked it on soft speed and it turned out perfectly.

Lisel -  the kids loved it.  I'd promised them sweet and sour noodles ages ago and done nothing.  This had the ingredients that best fitted my idea of what it should be like and it was a winner.  I added a julienned carrot and zucchini to up the veg content and served it over rice noodles.

tanm - Thanks for this recipe. I made it but I left out the ginger and garlic to keep my girls happy and I also added a carrot and zucchini. I found it a bit bland, probably from the lack of garlic and ginger but my girls liked it and ate it all up with no complaining, so that counts as a success in my book.

Hi there

I’m in Brisbane and have had my Thermomix since March this year and am really enjoying playing with it. I placed my order at my sister’s demonstration/training session because I could see so many benefits.  Just after doing a creative writing course I thought the best way to practice the craft was to start posting regularly to a blog that Telstra/Bigpond had provided a few years ago. Then I realised that I had taken a second one on at Blogspot at the same time so am now keeping both up to date because both offer certain advantages.

For some reason posting about my adventures with my Thermomix and more specifically with the Rawlicious recipe booklet have kind of taken over from the other areas I want to write about such as growing vegetables and moving towards living more sustainably. I think this might be because growing veges takes weeks or months while each day there are 3 meals to prepare. So while I’ll still write about my other interests, I’ve realigned my thoughts and am really enjoying trying new foods. 

I’ve become fascinated with raw food. I picked up Thermomix’s Rawlicious booklet back in early August and am slowly working through it. Currently I have made 21 of the 32 recipes in the booklet, if you count all of the Almond Milk Smoothies options as 1 recipe. I’ll be making the 22nd recipe tonight. I have been including photos in each blog post so if you’d like to see what my versions of the Rawlicious recipes look like, feel free to have a look here.

http://simplifyingyourlife.blogspot.com/search/label/Rawlicious

I’ve been so focused on just getting to know the Thermomix that I haven’t yet explored this forum as much as I could have. I’m looking forward to what I’ll find here.

Tarah