Baked Sweet and Sour Chicken with Fried Rice
You can enjoy amazing Chinese food at home with this Baked Sweet and Sour Chicken with Fried rice recipe. This is one delicious dinner!
I have a DELICIOUS recipe for you all! I am so excited to share this one. My family and I LOVE this dish. It has such a great flavor. You could probably trick your family into thinking you picked up Chinese food at a gourmet restaurant. It is that good, I promise!
I found these recipe one million years ago on Mel’s Kitchen Cafes website. Her site is filled with incredible recipes. I made this last night for dinner and I think we all ate it up within 10 minutes! It’s so good. I hope you give it a try soon. 🙂
Baked Sweet and Sour Chicken
Delicious sweet and sour chicken baked in the oven. This recipe beats any take-out Chinese!
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Ingredients
Chicken
- 3 to 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- salt and pepper
- 1 cup cornstarch
- 2 large eggs beaten
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
Sweet and Sour Sauce
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup ketchup
- 1/2 cup distilled white vinegar
- 1 Tablespoon low sodium soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon garlic salt
Instructions
Chicken
- Preheat the oven to 325 ℉. Cut the chicken breasts into 1-inch pieces. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Place the cornstarch in a gallon-sized Ziplock bag. Place the chicken pieces into the bag with the cornstarch and seal, tossing to coat the chicken.
- Whisk the eggs together in a shallow pie plate.
- Meanwhile, heat the oil in a large skillet over medium heat until very hot. Dip the cornstarch-coated chicken pieces in the egg and place them carefully in a single layer in the hot skillet.
- Cook for 20 to 30 seconds on each side until the crust is golden. (The chicken will finish cooking in the oven.)
- Place the chicken pieces in a single layer in a 9×13-inch baking dish and repeat with the remaining chicken pieces.
Sweet and Sour Sauce
- Mix the sweet and sour sauce ingredients together in a medium bowl and pour evenly over the chicken.
- Bake the chicken, uncovered, for 40 minutes, tossing the chicken once at the halfway mark. Serve over warm rice and enjoy!
Notes
Serve this delicious chicken with the fried rice recipe below!
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Recipe time updated to 40 minutes on 8/4/25
Ingredients
- 1 Tablespoon sesame oil
- 1 Tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1 cup frozen peas and carrots
- 1 small white onion chopped
- 2 teaspoons minced garlic
- 2 large eggs slightly beaten
- 3 cups cold cooked white rice (important it is pre-cooked cold rice)
- 1/4 cup low sodium soy sauce
Instructions
- Heat the sesame oil and vegetable oil, over medium-high heat, in a large skillet or wok. Add the peas/carrots mix, onion, and garlic. Stir fry until veggies are tender.
- Lower the heat to medium low and push the mixture off to one side, then pour eggs on the other side of skillet. Stir fry until scrambled.
- Add the cold, cooked rice and soy sauce. Stir and blend all together until thoroughly heated. Serve and enjoy!
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Dang, this looks just like the stuff at chinese resturaunts! Michael and Colby would love it!!!
I’ve made the chicken and it tastes just like the restaurant’s! it was a huge hit at my family christmas party
Holly welcome to the food blogging world! What a cute family you have! Your recipes look stellar too! Can’t wait to see what else you share!
Aww thanks so much Emily 🙂 Glad you stopped by!
how many servings dose it make
It should serve about 4-6. It’s really good so I should say 4 because you’ll want bigger portions 🙂
Holly,
I love this recipe and plan to make it asap:) Gluten free of course! karen
Definately making this! I love chinese food! Thanks, Holly!
I just want to let you know that I am not that great of a cook and was so sick of my husband criticizing everything I made. I almost gave up cooking until my sister-in-law, Codi, told me about your blog. I have tried a few recipes and every one of them has been delicious. I made this sweet and sour chicken and my husband absolutely loved it and the fried rice was amazing too. He like things to be a little spicy so next time I will try the szechaun chicken. I can’t wait. Thank you so much for making me feel like I really can cook.
I can really relate. Please share any tips or recipes.
WOW! I made the chicken and it was amazing! The sauce was just perfect. My husband loved it and we will definitely be making this one often! Thanks!
Ok this might be a really stupid question, but here goes… when you say turn the chicken every 15 minutes do you mean flip each piece of chicken, or just rotate the pan. lol I did both because I didn’t know. Again I know stupid question but that’s just how I roll haha.
-Ashley, I meant the chicken. Not the pan. Hope you liked it!! 🙂
I made this meal this weekend and was absolutely delicious!!! I moved from Atlanta to Uruguay 6 months ago and haven’t had any chinese food since!! I will definitely be making this again! Thanks so much for the recipe!! =)
This was simply amazing….SOOOOO good!! I added the ham to the fried rice (my first time to make that!) and I love the whole combination. Better than eating out! Thanks for the wonderful recipes!
I made this this past weekend. LOVED it! I couldn’t believe how easy the chicken was to make. The fried was a little tough.
It was too dry & plain. I added a few extras into it & helped a little. Just no camparison to my fav chinese restaurant. BUt we still LOVED it. Going to make again!
This was absolutely amazing and delicious. Everyone in the family loved it and my husband RAVED!!!! He said it was the best sweet and sour chicken he had ever had and couldn’t believe the fried rice was homemade!! Thanks so much!!!
My kids loved it! Thanks for sharing, it was excellent!
This does look great. It is still pan fried before it’s baked, but I guess that is better than deep fat frying. I will give it a try on a day I have plenty of time to bake that long.
I made this last night and it was AWESOME!!! I put a link to it on my site under the “Recipes That Shine” tab 🙂
Thanks for such a GREAT recipe!!!
I’m so sad it took me so long to look through your recipes and find this!! I can’t get enough sweet and sour chicken but I feel so guilty when it’s fried! Thanks Holly! ~Megan
I will have to try this, it looks like something the kids might actually eat! For the fried rice, the previous commenter might have had some clumping issues if the rice was freshly made. When you make fried rice, it works best when it’s at least a day old. Also, next time you are experimenting, try adding in some oyster sauce with the soy sauce. Really kicks up the flavor a notch! Hmm…I might make this tonight actually…
Yum! I just made a batch of the fried rice (we made the chicken last week), and it’s just perfect. Both were! So nice to be able to make some of our favorites without paying an arm and a leg for take-out. Thanks!
Found this on pinterest and tried it last night. It was delicious! My two grandsons just Rave about it. I used two bags of the “Boil-in-a-bag” white rice and it was perfect. Thanks for a great recipe. I’ll be making this for a long time now.
One word, FANTASTIC!!!
This was so good. I just made this tonight for the second time in a few weeks and I made a double batch just so we could have leftovers. I made my rice first thing, rinsed it in cold water, and threw it in the fridge while I cooked the rest of the meal. It was nice and chilled by the time I needed it. Great recipe!
Just finished eating this. It was delicious!!!! However, a tad too much vinegar. I think next time I will decrease the vinegar and sugar, and replace it with pineapple in juice. That way it still has enough liquid, enough sweetness, and I LOVE pineapple!!!!!
I made your fried rice with dinner tonight and it was AMAZING! Better than what we get at the restaurants and cheaper! I halved the recipe, b/c we are a small group and it turned out great. My husband, my 2 year old and I are now huge fans. Also, it was super easy to make!
Making it right now, rice is wonderful, waiting for chicken to finish baking…stole a little piece and it was yummmmmmy!!!!