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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Have not yet tried the chicken, but made the rice…… and loved it.
Thanks for the recipe. I’ll be making it again for sure.
This was a great supper and I cannot wait to make this again. My family loved it. Thanks so much for this.
wow this was amazing. My 4 1/2 year old asked for seconds for the 1st time in his life!!! Thanks for the yummy recipe. I will be using it again.
I love how simple this is. I’m in the process of making it now. Can’t wait to taste it!
This recipe is amazing!! However, it was a little difficult for me to brown the chicken evenly when I fried all the pieces at one time. So, I had to redo, and brown one at a time, which was a little time consuming, but soooo worth it! 🙂 Thank you for the recipe!!
I made this for dinner tonight and I have never had a better dish. We love this type food but I didn’t have a clue how to make it. I loved how the chicken browned in the sesame oil. I have tried a lot of recipes on Pentrest, but this is by far the best!!! Thank you so much for sharing it!! next time going to try it with cashews and some broccoli. Please keep sharing and I’ll be sharing the news!!
This looks really good! Do you have any suggestions for substitutions for cornstarch? I can’t have corn but I really would love to make this. Thanks!
Wow, this looks absolutely amazing!!! And easy!! Me and my family don’t eat red meat and I have been looking for great new chicken recipes and this is perfect!! Thanks!!!
Just wanted to say what everyone else already has– I made this Sunday night for me and my boyfriend and it was a HUGE hit! Thank you for the step by step directions. It was perfect. I love trying new recipes and love the ones on your site 🙂
Just wanted to say what everyone else already has– I made this Sunday night for me and my boyfriend and it was a HUGE hit! Thank you for the step by step directions. It was perfect. I love trying new recipes and love the ones on your site 🙂
Do you have any idea how well if at all the chicken freezes? I do a freezer meal swap and this would be a fantastic addition. FYI the rice freezes really well (minus the egg I halved my amount last time and froze the un egged part) but we had no leftover chicken to test in the freezer, it was too good!
I made this the other night. It was a lot of work. I think I started around 6:00pm and was eating at 8:30. Don’t get me wrong, that doesn’t bother me. I like to cook, and have a couple of cocktails while doing so! 🙂 It was also a little messy (maybe because of the cocktails LOL). However, that being said, I think this might be the best dish I have EVER made. IT WAS AMAZING!!!!!
I made this not realizing my husband doesn’t like sweet and sour chicken. He LOVED it. He requested it for dinner less than a week later. Seriously, better than at a restaurant!
I just wanted to say thank you for sharing this recipe, I made it tonight and it was amazing me, my husband and my grandmother absolutely loved it. Never ordering Chinese again 😉
This was soooo yummy!! Thank you for posting this!!
Question: Do you think this would work in a crock pot?
WOW – Thats all I can say – WOW – OK not really I can say a lot more 🙂 I was sooo ready to come on here today and leave a negative review (which i usually dont do) because making the chicken was a bit time consuming and messy and I kept thinking if this isnt the best chicken Ive ever eaten this girl is gonna get it LOL – Well it was the BEST chicken ive ever eaten – AMAZING. I whipped up an extra 1/2 batch of the sauce and cooked peppers, carrots and snap peas in a separate dish. The sauce was runnier (because of no cornstarch) but it was perfect for the rice (i just used plain brown rice – didnt have time for the fried.) And it was out of this world all mixed together. Best recipe ive found on Pintrest by far!!!!! thank you for sharing
I LOVE this recipe!!! I even blogged about it and link it to here! Thank you! 🙂
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Your recipe for the sweet and sour chicken and fried rice stay in regular rotation at my house! Easy to make and they’re about as close to the stuff from a restaurant as you can get!
No doubt why you get so many blog comments.
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Amazing. I have been looking for a homemade Chinese recipe that didn’t leave me wanting to order take-out. This is it. It’s delicious and so much healthier than take-out! Thank you so much for sharing!
I tried this fried rice and it was just okay! It made have been because I didn’t have day old or leftover rice so I used rice I cooked a fews hours before and let cool. I will try again with day old rice and see what the outcome is. But I did expect more out of this rice. Our chinese restaurant has great fried rice so my expectations may have been too high.
OMYGOODNESS….I’ve made this 3 times since I found the recipe. this stuff is like crack! It’s so addictive. The only change I made was to add cayenne pepper as I like things a little spicy.
I am really allergic to MSG, which unfortunately limits the places I can eat. Last time I had a really bad reaction but I love sweet and sour chicken I am making this tonight I’m so excited. Thank you for the recipe!
We absolutely LOVED this recipe…I was told I can make this anytime!! Definitely a keeper!! =)