Sweet and Sour Chicken Skillet

This Sweet and Sour Chicken Skillet is the perfect family dinner! Chicken is fried until crispy, added to a skillet with sautéed bell peppers, onions and pineapple, and tossed in an amazing takeout style sweet and sour sauce!What I love most about this recipe is that it can be made all in one skillet, leaving you with way less dishes to worry about after dinner. All you need is a deeper skillet, otherwise the frying process can get a bit messy.

This recipe uses that exact sauce I shared yesterday, just cooked in a slightly different way, so it cooks down with the chicken and veggies, leaving them gloriously coated with that sweet and tangy sauce.

Ingredients:

Chicken

• 2 average sized boneless skinless chicken breasts cut into small bite-sized pieces
• 1/2 tsp kosher salt
• 1/2 cup all purpose flour
• 1/4 cup cornstarch
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 3/4 cup cold water
• enough vegetable oil to fill a deep skillet by about 1.5 inches

Sauce

• 1 cup canned pineapple juice
• 2/3 cup packed light brown sugar
• 1/3 cup rice vinegar
• 1/4 cup ketchup
• 2 Tbsp reduced sodium soy sauce
• 2 Tbsp cold water
• 1 1/2 Tbsp cornstarch
• 1 – 2 drops red food coloring (optional)

Skillet

• 1 medium yellow onion peeled and sliced into roughly 1 inch pieces
• 1 red bell pepper seeded and sliced into roughly 1 inch pieces
• 1 green bell pepper seeded and sliced into roughly 1 inch pieces
• 3 cloves garlic minced
• 8 oz can pineapple tidbits drained
• sesame seeds for garnish
• sliced green onions for garnish