as a 68 year old batchelor and a helpless rookie when it came to anything more complex or involved than say boiling water you and your videos are a godsend. Bless you sir for being able to teach (what I thought I was) the unteachable.
You can cut the sugar but the vinegar will be more pronounced. It depends if you like it more sweet or more sour. If you want neither, add more water to the sauce.
Agreed it's a little sweet and I didn't add enough vinegar (more like a Cantonese sweet and sour), but that's my own personal preference. Great recipe, batter was perfect. Hardly any difference, if any, between this and restaurant. Thanks for the recipe and upload, really enjoyed it.
If you keep the S&S sauce and chicken separate and then pour the S&S sauce over the deep fried battered chicken pieces (at the very end) the chicken will stay crispy longer and won't absorb the S&S sauce like a sponge. I like my chicken pieces crispy when I eat my S&S chicken but that's just more personal preference I guess. Great video and step by step walk through on how to make S&S chicken!
Am from Jamaica and I try doing your recipe n it come out perfect for my first time cooking sweet n sour chicken . the next time I cook it I season with maggi season n it was great. Thank you
Essie Shyflamez Lol. Good ol' maggi seasoning. You used the all purpose, the chicken one or both? Also, now that its been approved by a Jamaican palate, i'm definitely gonna try it.
I owe you so many comments and thanks. You are my go to chef and recipes. I have made many of your recipes and they have now become the only recipes that I use. My family and I love your recipes especially this sweet and sour chicken. Majority of my life, I've never been a fan of it, since making your recipe, I love it. Many thanks to you for all that you do to help us create amazing dishes, desserts and every other amazing dish you taught us to make. 😊 ❤
I thought that was an incredibly difficult dish to make!! I love sweet and sour chicken but was never brave enough to try to cook it, thanks to you I will this weekend. Thank you thank you !!!!
Very good, with your own preferences on little things like choice of vegetables and how small you want them. The important stuff is the batter and sauce which are right on. People might be shocked at the amount of sugar but it's spot on.
I've survived almost 4 decades on this earth without tucking my fingers when I cut, 1 of those working in full service restaurants. Not cutting yourself has more with paying attention than it does finger position. And that knife didn't even cost me $10 brand new so who cares what I cut on.
That's a white onion and I am cringing at that granite cutting board. But thanks for the recipe, and blame YT for recommending this to me 7 years later ;)
I marinated the chicken in rice vinegar and soy sauce for about 15 mins before coating them with the batter, as I marinated the chicken in soy sauce, I didn't add soy sauce to the batter mixture. Once the dish was ready and the stove was off, I tossed in some unsalted raw cashew nuts and sprinkled it with toasted sesame seeds - this is optional, it would still taste great without these. And I used rice vinegar instead of white vinegar, just because I had some lying around. Will be making this again, when I fancy something Chinese. Big thumbs up to this recipe.
I make my own (video and recipe on my channel in another video). Lately though, I've stopped using ketchup in the sweet and sour sauce and like it better that way.
Love this recipe! I can't eat from a Chinese restaurant due to allergies. This is the closest recipe I have ever made to store bought. I make this recipe all the time!
Just made this. AH-MAZING!! The directions were perfect, Ingredients are easy, Directions are clear. I make a lot of Asian dishes and this is so simple. Thank you SO much for posting. I rarely subscribe to TH-cam Peeps, but consider myself a fan of yours! (P.S. - I added some Red Bell Peppers to the veggies and a teaspoon of Red Pepper Flakes to the Sauce to give it a bit of 'kick.') Perfect!! Awesome!! Will be making this every night :) p.s.s. I like the red food coloring - makes it look more delicious and 'cultural.'
I make the sauce up all the time on it's own to use on my homemade fried rice and crab rangoon. Just mix it together in a measuring cup with the cornstarch and put it in the microwave until it's thickened. I wouldn't use that to cook with though since the cornstarch will break down and not keep the sauce thick after reheating. You can make it up ahead though without cooking and add it when you do make dinner.
This is my official sweet and sour recipe. I normally do it without red coloring, but with brown sugar, I would caution anyone using brown sugar to use less than the amount if using white sugar, brown sugar is much sweeter. Love the recipe many thanks for sharing.
Dear Sir: I just finished cooking this Sweet and Sour Chicken as per your recipe. It came out wonderful. Instead of using my gas stove, I use my induction Nuwave cooktop because it has precise temperature control for frying. The chicken came out great. You have a great recipe for the batter!!!. After adding the sauce to the vegetables, it was a little think and I added may be one quarter of a cup of water. Then I added the chicken. I also added some salt to the sauce. But this came out great. I can wait to have dinner on top of white rice. Thank You so very much for sharing this recipe with all of us.
Great video...So glad you added the food coloring to the sauce...makes this dish look more appetizing ...wow cannot wait to make this....So easy...Thanks!
Thank you so much!! My children love it! They say it is even better than the one done in restaurants 😅 we have been trying to cook it for years and no other recipe on the internet is like this one! Greetings from Egypt 😁
this is the best video so far for this type of recipe. You are easy to listen to and very thorough with your instructions. I am going to try this tonight for dinner. thank you for this easy recipe. I look forward to following further videos.
Of all the recipes I've tried that use it, none of them are like the sauce you get in the restaurants near me. When I asked both of my favorite Chinese restaurants if they used pineapple juice in their S&S sauce, neither of them did. You can add it if you want but I find it to make it more like a tv dinner than something in a restaurant.
I have to make this for my grandson. He loves sweet and sour chicken. Now that I have the recipe, I have no excuses. Thanks so much for sharing it. I subbed you.
This is the sweet and sour sauce I had been looking for!!! Just I added 1 cup of pineapple juice to add the sour flavor. Thank you Crouton Crackerjacks!!! Soooo Goooood!!!
Just wanted to say thank you for sharing this video! My family absolutely loves this dish, many people tell me it's better that most Chinese restaurants
I have just started getting into cooking and I have to say this has been the best meal I have cooked by far! Great simple instructions that were easy to follow. The taste was amazing and everyone loved it. Great video will be following your videos from now on. Thank you!
I love you so much....Im so happy I found you..OMG!! this is so good, not greasy at all..love it..Thank you for all the great recipes..everyone you have to make this and every recipe he post, hes the best..there will be no left overs..
Going to be doing a video on my version of Chicago style stuffed pizza this week or next. Concocted it when I got back from Chicago a few years ago after stuffing my face at Giordano's. BEST pizza I ever had!
Tried it last night and it was excellent! ....By far the best authentic Chinese take out recipe I've ever used! Looking for an awesome Chinese Bar-Q Rib recipe now and I'll be all set! Thanks!!!
This was very sweet. I did everything the same and it was too sweet I even added more vinegar and 2 cups of water but it was still very sweet. Think I will have to adjust the sugar and vinegar ratio a lot.
Great recipe. Just made it. I used your other sauce recipe w/o ketchup. The chicken batter makes great chicken nuggets. I made extra chicken to eat by itself, or other ways.
I've been eating this dish, in one form or another, for about 35 years. The best I've ever had was at a little place in San Francisco's Chinatown. That being said, I made this (sauce) today for some left over s&s chicken from last night's dinner. To MY taste it's to sweet. But the basic sauce is tasty. Next time I'll only use 3/4 C of sugar, and that should do. Well done not only on the recipe but also on the video!
Thank you for this delicious recipe I watched your video today and did your recipe step by step it is an amazing delicious tasteful recipe Thank you thank you
Just made this for Lunch for my boyfriend who loves sweet and sour chicken! He said it was better than the takeaway! Thank you for sharing this recipe :)
im already cooked it for many times for my Arabian madam..and she really really liked it... especially those pineapple chunks it made a dish so tasty and perfect...thankz for uploading thiz video..More power...
I cooked this the other day for the family and they absolutely loved it. the first comment I got was "this tastes just like the restaurants!" Thanks a lot!! (I followed the recipe to the dot).
Hey thanks,I made your sweet and sour chicken last night for my girlfriend and her sister and myself along with fried rice and my girl friend had 3 helpings while me and sister had one plate they finished the whole pan, Just loved it, they said the best sweet & sour chicken they ever ate,thanks again. Oh by the way I never will buy sweet and sour sauce again so easy to make and better than store bought.
For someone isn't Chinese you got this quite close to the original sweet n sour recipe, well done!! originally they would add pineapple for the fruity sweetness so they don't need to put too much sugar, also they added bit of honey too and they would put little more ketchup to have that natural redness instead of using food colouring. Also they would add about one egg white to thicken the batter so the chicken would come out a bit puffy~ But I suppose you right, becuz many restaurants do use food colouring to cut down the cost!
as a 68 year old batchelor and a helpless rookie when it came to anything more complex or involved than say boiling water you and your videos are a godsend. Bless you sir for being able to teach (what I thought I was) the unteachable.
You can cut the sugar but the vinegar will be more pronounced. It depends if you like it more sweet or more sour. If you want neither, add more water to the sauce.
6 years ago I tryed the first time. I stil use that recipe. It's fantastic. Thank you
Agreed it's a little sweet and I didn't add enough vinegar (more like a Cantonese sweet and sour), but that's my own personal preference. Great recipe, batter was perfect. Hardly any difference, if any, between this and restaurant. Thanks for the recipe and upload, really enjoyed it.
I've tried other recipes for sweet and sour but this by far is the best one thank you so much this is what's for dinner tonight
Irene Navarro i agree!!!
Have to say this was so good my 17 yrs old picky daughter had two.plates full thanks so much
7 years late
If you keep the S&S sauce and chicken separate and then pour the S&S sauce over the deep fried battered chicken pieces (at the very end) the chicken will stay crispy longer and won't absorb the S&S sauce like a sponge. I like my chicken pieces crispy when I eat my S&S chicken but that's just more personal preference I guess.
Great video and step by step walk through on how to make S&S chicken!
Am from Jamaica and I try doing your recipe n it come out perfect for my first time cooking sweet n sour chicken . the next time I cook it I season with maggi season n it was great. Thank you
Essie Shyflamez Lol. Good ol' maggi seasoning. You used the all purpose, the chicken one or both? Also, now that its been approved by a Jamaican palate, i'm definitely gonna try it.
Roxan Shaw yes girl it tun up. I use small amount of the chicken season
it necessary fi add all a dem vegetable deh? cause me cyah badda fi chop up all a dat
No Cianna Robinson i don't think you have to, try without n then next time with the vegetables.
+Essie Shyflamez oh aii .. thnx
This recipe is great! I've been using it for years now, thank you!
;-; i want to eat it
Omaima So have I. I tried it in the crockpot the other day... NOT GOING TO DO THAT AGAIN lol. I love his way.
Have just tried your receipe and my daughter says its nice. I have written it down and will try it again.
I owe you so many comments and thanks. You are my go to chef and
recipes. I have made many of your recipes and they have now become the only recipes that I use. My family and I love your recipes especially this sweet and sour chicken. Majority of my life, I've never been a fan of it, since making your recipe, I love it. Many thanks to you for all that you do to help us create amazing dishes, desserts and every other amazing dish you taught us to make. 😊 ❤
I made this and it turned out great. I didn't add the food coloring. I used rice wine vinegar for the sauce. Perfect. Thanks for the video.
I just made this for lunch today and its awesome. I cut the sugar in half, it was still awesome! Thank you for sharing.
I thought that was an incredibly difficult dish to make!! I love sweet and sour chicken but was never brave enough to try to cook it, thanks to you I will this weekend. Thank you thank you !!!!
Made this tonight. Came out delicious! Thanks for sharing! My family and I loved it!!! 😎
The recipe looks incredible, I can't wait to try it!!!! I am saving this vid as a favorite!!!! Thanks
Very good, with your own preferences on little things like choice of vegetables and how small you want them. The important stuff is the batter and sauce which are right on. People might be shocked at the amount of sugar but it's spot on.
I've survived almost 4 decades on this earth without tucking my fingers when I cut, 1 of those working in full service restaurants. Not cutting yourself has more with paying attention than it does finger position. And that knife didn't even cost me $10 brand new so who cares what I cut on.
That's a white onion and I am cringing at that granite cutting board. But thanks for the recipe, and blame YT for recommending this to me 7 years later ;)
Who cares how you cut? The diner who hates finding stray fingertips in his chef's salad.
I marinated the chicken in rice vinegar and soy sauce for about 15 mins before coating them with the batter, as I marinated the chicken in soy sauce, I didn't add soy sauce to the batter mixture. Once the dish was ready and the stove was off, I tossed in some unsalted raw cashew nuts and sprinkled it with toasted sesame seeds - this is optional, it would still taste great without these. And I used rice vinegar instead of white vinegar, just because I had some lying around. Will be making this again, when I fancy something Chinese. Big thumbs up to this recipe.
I make my own (video and recipe on my channel in another video). Lately though, I've stopped using ketchup in the sweet and sour sauce and like it better that way.
Love this recipe! I can't eat from a Chinese restaurant due to allergies. This is the closest recipe I have ever made to store bought. I make this recipe all the time!
rccrashin Glad you enjoy!
Just made this. AH-MAZING!! The directions were perfect, Ingredients are easy, Directions are clear. I make a lot of Asian dishes and this is so simple. Thank you SO much for posting. I rarely subscribe to TH-cam Peeps, but consider myself a fan of yours! (P.S. - I added some Red Bell Peppers to the veggies and a teaspoon of Red Pepper Flakes to the Sauce to give it a bit of 'kick.') Perfect!! Awesome!! Will be making this every night :) p.s.s. I like the red food coloring - makes it look more delicious and 'cultural.'
I make the sauce up all the time on it's own to use on my homemade fried rice and crab rangoon. Just mix it together in a measuring cup with the cornstarch and put it in the microwave until it's thickened. I wouldn't use that to cook with though since the cornstarch will break down and not keep the sauce thick after reheating. You can make it up ahead though without cooking and add it when you do make dinner.
This is my official sweet and sour recipe. I normally do it without red coloring, but with brown sugar, I would caution anyone using brown sugar to use less than the amount if using white sugar, brown sugar is much sweeter.
Love the recipe many thanks for sharing.
Sir, you are a cooking guru. Very practical cooking lesson in plain English, thanks for sharing!
Very nice sie
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Dear Sir: I just finished cooking this Sweet and Sour Chicken as per your recipe. It came out wonderful. Instead of using my gas stove, I use my induction Nuwave cooktop because it has precise temperature control for frying. The chicken came out great. You have a great recipe for the batter!!!. After adding the sauce to the vegetables, it was a little think and I added may be one quarter of a cup of water. Then I added the chicken. I also added some salt to the sauce. But this came out great. I can wait to have dinner on top of white rice. Thank You so very much for sharing this recipe with all of us.
You're so very welcome. Glad you enjoyed!
The full recipe is in the description box. Just click on 'show more'. ;-)
Great video...So glad you added the food coloring to the sauce...makes this dish look more appetizing ...wow cannot wait to make this....So easy...Thanks!
I am so excited that the batter is made of a cornstarch slurry!!! Yay!!! I can make this for my family!!! They're gonna LOVE it!!!
I have tried this recipe today but I cut the amount of sugar in half and added more vegetatbles ,
it still turned out good.
thanks ! ☺☺
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I donno y this video comes in my feed after 12 years... But I love this and makes me drooling...
I was watching this when i was stoned so i really love this video, thankyou ☺️☺️☺️ ❤️ 🌻🌼🌺🌹🌷🌸💐
lmao what I'm doing right now.
W0w !! Sweet-and-sour chicken looks delicious thank you for your recipe😋👍
I made this 11/11/2015 my husband and children enjoyed the meal. Thank you so much well done.
Made this tonight. Very good. I will try a little less sugar in the sauce next time but this is a keeper. Thank you.
Thank you so much!! My children love it! They say it is even better than the one done in restaurants 😅 we have been trying to cook it for years and no other recipe on the internet is like this one! Greetings from Egypt 😁
I made this tonight for my mother and father..We all loved it! FANTASTIC!! I'm definetly gonna be making this more!
Glad you and the parentals enjoyed!
This recipe is awesome I had to search to find you again.. it's the best
I absolutely love that you give the left overs to your dog !! I give all my excess to my pigs and chickens and they love it!! Thanks guy :)
I love my sweet & sour sauce to have the carrot,o ions, and bell pepper. Yum! Thanks for sharing.
Great recipe and easy too!Thanks.The idea of using food color is great since only ketchup doesn't give it that restaurant style look.
I just finished making this and omg this is so good. It taste much better then the chinese restaurants. Thanks so much for sharing this recipe.
Made this twice! Absolutely amazing!
Have to admit that,this's the best chicken sweet and sour recipe I've ever watched,
Well done,keep it up
have been using the same recipe for 4 years except with ¼ cup sugar... TOTALLY RECOMMEND! ❤
this is the best video so far for this type of recipe. You are easy to listen to and very thorough with your instructions. I am going to try this tonight for dinner. thank you for this easy recipe. I look forward to following further videos.
Of all the recipes I've tried that use it, none of them are like the sauce you get in the restaurants near me. When I asked both of my favorite Chinese restaurants if they used pineapple juice in their S&S sauce, neither of them did. You can add it if you want but I find it to make it more like a tv dinner than something in a restaurant.
Thanks so much. I made it and I love it. This is delicious! I did half the recipe of all the ingredients..
This is my favorite recipe everrrrr😍😍😍❤️❤️❤️❤️ it's so delicious and easy I've been doing it for years now!!
Tried this and it turned out perfectly. Less greasier and much better for value than ordering a takeaway.
Why would I use cranberry or pomegranate juice?
Yes.
I have to make this for my grandson. He loves sweet and sour chicken. Now that I have the recipe, I have no excuses. Thanks so much for sharing it. I subbed you.
Hello Jason. I hope all is well with u and ur loved ones. I'm hoping to make this dish this weekend. Yours by far is the best. Easy to follow.
This is the sweet and sour sauce I had been looking for!!! Just I added 1 cup of pineapple juice to add the sour flavor. Thank you Crouton Crackerjacks!!! Soooo Goooood!!!
Just wanted to say thank you for sharing this video! My family absolutely loves this dish, many people tell me it's better that most Chinese restaurants
Made this the other day. The whole dish was so yummy 😋! Especially the sauce .
Your recipe video looks delish, thanks for sharing it! Want to make this dish for dinner tomorrow!
Thanx alot for the recipie......u showed each and every step v clearly and i m going to make it tonight....
I have just started getting into cooking and I have to say this has been the best meal I have cooked by far! Great simple instructions that were easy to follow. The taste was amazing and everyone loved it. Great video will be following your videos from now on. Thank you!
You can although the flavor will change somewhat. Not too bad but give it a shot.
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This is the best redipe I have ever done for sweer and sour sauce from now on this is what I will use
I love you so much....Im so happy I found you..OMG!! this is so good, not greasy at all..love it..Thank you for all the great recipes..everyone you have to make this and every recipe he post, hes the best..there will be no left overs..
I tried this recipe precisely !!!!
nothing in the world tasted better yummy added to my favs incase I go wrong
Hope you enjoy!
Going to be doing a video on my version of Chicago style stuffed pizza this week or next. Concocted it when I got back from Chicago a few years ago after stuffing my face at Giordano's. BEST pizza I ever had!
Tried it last night and it was excellent! ....By far the best authentic Chinese take out recipe I've ever used! Looking for an awesome Chinese Bar-Q Rib recipe now and I'll be all set! Thanks!!!
This was very sweet. I did everything the same and it was too sweet I even added more vinegar and 2 cups of water but it was still very sweet. Think I will have to adjust the sugar and vinegar ratio a lot.
Some restaurants use red wine vinegar
Simple recipe, simple instructions, thank you for making this recipe a breeze.
I made this recipe per your instructions and wow! !! Thank you not only great but beautiful! Love it!
You are amazing chef I will cook like you soon .My son is on Keto diet and I can’t do what I want .i love the way you explain .
gracias y es muy facil de seguir tu resetas gracias otravez
Splendid dinner the best recipe so far
I’ll be sticking to this as my go-to
Greetings and Thank you from England
Maximum respect
Great recipe. Just made it. I used your other sauce recipe w/o ketchup.
The chicken batter makes great chicken nuggets. I made extra chicken to eat by itself, or other ways.
i tried this recipe and it came out perfect. My kids are hooked on the sweet and sour sauce !! ....thanks
I've been eating this dish, in one form or another, for about 35 years. The best I've ever had was at a little place in San Francisco's Chinatown. That being said, I made this (sauce) today for some left over s&s chicken from last night's dinner. To MY taste it's to sweet. But the basic sauce is tasty. Next time I'll only use 3/4 C of sugar, and that should do. Well done not only on the recipe but also on the video!
Thank you for this delicious recipe I watched your video today and did your recipe step by step it is an amazing delicious tasteful recipe
Thank you thank you
Did this recipe before, doing it again today. It is super delicious! Great video, simply explained. Thanks!
Denise Cavazos You're welcome. Glad you enjoy!
Thanks so much! I hope you give it a try and let me know how you like it!
My family loves it when I make this recipe. Thanks for sharing! It's definitely a favorite!
Just made this for Lunch for my boyfriend who loves sweet and sour chicken! He said it was better than the takeaway! Thank you for sharing this recipe :)
I wonder if you are still together after 8 years
im already cooked it for many times for my Arabian madam..and she really really liked it... especially those pineapple chunks it made a dish so tasty and perfect...thankz for uploading thiz video..More power...
You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed!
I cooked this the other day for the family and they absolutely loved it. the first comment I got was "this tastes just like the restaurants!" Thanks a lot!! (I followed the recipe to the dot).
Thanks Wendy!
This recipe is so easy to make and it's delicious thank you for sharing .
Hey thanks,I made your sweet and sour chicken last night for my girlfriend and her sister and myself along with fried rice and my girl friend had 3 helpings while me and sister had one plate they finished the whole pan, Just loved it, they said the best sweet & sour chicken they ever ate,thanks again. Oh by the way I never will buy sweet and sour sauce again so easy to make and better than store bought.
Thanks, I was able to finally find a video that made instructions so simple and not over explained! :) I was able to cook this with ease.
Glad you enjoyed!!
Cant think of any thing more delicious to eat right know..!!! Thank you ..
Thank you so much for sharing this delicious recipe ,the best recipe.Thank you .Salute from SaoPaulo Brazil 👏🏻🌷🇧🇷
For someone isn't Chinese you got this quite close to the original sweet n sour recipe, well done!! originally they would add pineapple for the fruity sweetness so they don't need to put too much sugar, also they added bit of honey too and they would put little more ketchup to have that natural redness instead of using food colouring.
Also they would add about one egg white to thicken the batter so the chicken would come out a bit puffy~ But I suppose you right, becuz many restaurants do use food colouring to cut down the cost!
hi there...iv tried ur recipe today and its so wonferful that they luv it
, the texture and its moiture
just so perfect...thanks to
you!
Love ❤ your Sweet and Sour Chicken...So EASY and fast....Make this often and everyone LOVES ❤ it !!! Thank you Sir for Sharing.....
Your recipe was wonderful my husband like it very much. Thank you. We always want to know how to make that chinese restaurant batter
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Man i just made it and its delicious....jesus is the best preperation for chinese chicken... upload more chinese recipes...
You're welcome!
Glad to hear! Thanks!
finally a sweet and sour chicken recipe that makes sense... funny how the 'coloring' really makes it what it is and just get it to pop!
You are a Jack of all Trades. Your crochet work is great and you cook too. Wow
Keep up the good work.
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