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Sweet n’ Sour Chicken

Today I made home made sweet n’ sour chicken and noodles with spinach.
Please feel free to deviate from this and try making it your own.
This receipe was for two people.

Ingredients

Meat of choice

In this case I chose

  • chicken breasts

Spices and other

  • Light soy sauce 15ml
  • Dark soy sauce 30ml
  • Red wine
  • Rice wine vinegar
  • BBQ sauce 10ml
  • Ketchup 10ml
  • Chilli jam 10ml - optional
    • or try another jam flavour
  • Honey
    • 15ml beeswax honey
    • Dolup of cheap honey
  • Seasme oil
  • Corn flour × 5 tea spoons
  • Garlic clove × 1

Carbohydrate

In this case I chose

  • egg noodles

Vegatables

In this case I chose

  • spinach

Receipe

  1. Boil some water in a saucepan
  2. Add the noodles
  3. Add the spinach
  1. Add the chicken breasts into a wok
    • and simmer
  2. Add some light soy sauce 10ml
  3. Turn the chicken breasts around occasionaly
  4. With a flat wooden spoon, start to break the chicken as it gets brown.
    • Cut the the chicken with the flat wooden spoon lining the flat side along the grain of the chicken.
  5. Add a couple splash of boiling water (maybe from noodles)
    • this will soften the chicken and make it easier to break.
  6. Once the chicken is broken into pieces add about a ¼ of the corn flour
  1. At this point check the noodles and the spinach
    • turn down if necessary
  1. In a bowl add the dark soy sauce
  2. Add the BBQ and ketchup
  3. Add a splash of red wine and the rice vinegar
  4. Add the honey and jam
  5. Stir with a teaspoon
  1. Add the mix into wok
  2. Add some boiling water from noodles
  3. Break and peel garlic clove and add
  4. Turn heat back up to cook and simmer mixture.
    • The corn flour will make thick
  1. Get two pasta bowls for serving
  2. Drain off water from saucepan of noodles and spinach
  3. Add a small drizzle of seasme oil
    • stir into noodles using handle end of a wooden spoon or a thick chop stick
  4. Add half and half into each bowl
  1. Turn the heat down to the wok
    • stir with flat wooden spoon
  2. Add the rest of the corn flour
  3. Stir with flat wooden spoon
    • the sauce will get thick very quickly
  1. Add half and half of the sweet n sour chicken mix from wok into each of serving pasta bowls with the noodles and spinach
  2. Serve with some of the red wine in a glass