Sweet and Sour Lychee Chicken. Chicken and lychee in sweet and sour sauce. This dish is perfect for special occasions such as to celebrate Chinese New Year. This chicken and lychee in a sweet and sour sauce is one of my Mom's staple dish to celebrate Chinese New Year.

In a mixing bowl, add batter and meat. Deep fry meat until it turns golden brown. Mix ingredients for sweet and sour sauce and add a bit of water or lychee syrup (from canned lychee) if necessary; Chop capsicum and onion into bite sized pieces. You can cook Sweet and Sour Lychee Chicken using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Sweet and Sour Lychee Chicken

1. Prepare 4 of bulk chicken thigh (cut diced).
2. Prepare 1 of canned lychee.
3. It's 1 of red chilli (thinly sliced).
4. It's 1 of thumb ginger (thinly sliced).
5. Prepare 1 of spring onion.
6. You need 4 of garlic (chopped).
7. You need 1/2 of onion (cut quarter).
8. Prepare 1 tbsp of tomato sauce.
9. Prepare of Corn starch.
10. You need of Starch.
11. You need of Oil.

Dip chicken cubes into egg white, coat in corn flour then fry at medium heat till golden brown. Garnish with green onions and sesame seeds. Use the remainder of the sauce for dipping. Storing Leftover Sweet And Sour Chicken.

Sweet and Sour Lychee Chicken step by step

1. Marinade chicken with soy sauce and pepper for at least 10 minutes or put it in a fridge overnight..
2. Heat the pan and oil. While waiting, mix chicken with corn starch. Stir and cover quickly before frying..
3. Fry the chicken then set aside..
4. Heat the saucepan, oil, then put garlic and ginger in until the garlic turn golden brown. Next put the chilli in and onion, followed by lychee with the liquid. Add tomato sauce, sugar, pepper, and salt..
5. Bring the chicken in. Last, put spring onion in. Stir until it is all cooked..

I tweaked the recipe a bit. Instead of using barbecue sauce I actually used sweet and sour sauce being that this is supposed to be sweet and sour chicken made more sense. I also used garlic powder instead of minced garlic and it came out perfect! Served with rice it was delicious Reserving one tbsp of cooking oil in the wok, add in the shallots and stir fried till aromatic. Add in the lychees and the sweet and sour sauce.