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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OMG this chicken is AMAZING! 🙂 I absolutely love it because it is GLUTEN FREE! (With my gf soy sauce) 🙂 and I love finding gf recipes that don’t taste gf! (My celiac friends know what I mean!) even my super picky boyfriend ate it and even ate seconds! Definitely a winner 🙂
Thanks, Holly, this was delish!
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Wow, this recipe is awesome! Made it last night and was surprised it actually turned out as well as everyone here says (I’m not a cook and don’t pretend to be). Wonderful! Thanks so much!
Made the Baked Sweet and Sour Chicken and the Fried Rice tonight and it was a HUGE HIT at our house! Thank you so much for this recipe!
My sister sent me the link to this today. It looked so good I made it for dinner. AMAZING!!!
Better than take out and I don’t have to feel guilty eating it! I used 1/2 cup of sugar rather than 3/4 cup and it was still fantastic! 🙂
This was awesome!!!! The only problem is that my pan may or may not be ruined from the carmelizing sauce 🙁
Made this for dinner tonight and it was fantastic!!! Rice and chicken cooked perfectly! Thanks so much for sharing this with us!
I don’t even know how I found this yesterday but I cooked it tonight an it was fantastic! Had to make changes for a diabetic hubby. Used baking Splenda instead of sugar, low sodium soy sauce and Egg Beaters. Didn’t have cornstarch so I just dusted the chicken with flour. It was so good and the chicken was very tender. It really looked just like your picture! Hubby wants me to make it with shrimp too. I make my fat-free fried rice once a week so I served it with that. Awesome dinner…thank you!
Holly- I found this wonderful recipe recently through Pinterest. I made this last weekend and it was delightful. Such a great find! I shared this recently on my blog, linking back to you. I hope you don’t mind!
Best,
Lindsay
This recipe is great! I added a little Thai chile sauce for some heat. Don’t think I’ll get take-out much anymore!
This turned out perfect! I’ve never cooked Chinese at home but I will definately be making this regularly! It was a bit time consuming but im sure after i make it a couple more times ill know better what im doing & it’ll be faster! The only thing I did different was I added 1 tsp red pepper flakes to the chicken sauce & used brown & white sugar instead of just white! Oh & also, I baked it at 350 for 45 min & turned twice turning cooking!
Found this on Pinterest and made it tonight for 5 picky children and hubby and the majority loved it with some triple helpings going on!! Glad you posted it 🙂
I made this tonight. AWESOME!! I forgot to dip the chicken in the egg before frying but it still turned out great. Made the rice as well. Very Tasty. Will be making again
So, I tried this recipe tonight, and let me tell you… I am new at this cooking thing, and it was SO good! It is time consuming, but well worth it! I ended up having to use an extra egg to coat the chicken in, and didn’t use all of the cornstarch. It turned out perfectly! I made a double batch of the sauce, just because we had a bunch of chicken..my crust was also soft but didn’t bother us. It tasted fantastic. I also HIGHLY recommend adding some bell peppers. Gives it a ton more flavor. I also tried the fried rice. It was also so good! And way easy! I made the rice when I got home around 5:30, put it in the fridge with no lid to cool and then used it at around 8 and it worked perfectly. No clumping. I added an extra egg though! My boyfriend doesn’t really care for Chinese foos, but ate a ton of it, and said it was better then the restaurants! Highly recommend!!!
I spotted this on Pinterest recently and tried it out. I cannot begin to tell you how wonderful it was.
This is DELICIOUS!! I agree with some of the other comments, the sauce could do with a bit less sugar, but otherwise this is just perfect! I’ll definitely be making it again, with some extra sauce to mix in my white rice! Thanks so much for the recipe!
Found this recipe on another blog a few months backand it is a huge hit in our house! The recipe I have calls for pineapple chunks in the sauce and we really like that addition.
Someone asked if there is a substitute to cornstarch and I actually made this once with something called Wondra because I didnt realize I was out of cornstarch and it came out perfectly!
Your fried rice looks so restaurant-like, bravo! And I can’t wait to try this recipe! The pics are great step by steps!
Hello!I really want to make this for my boyfriends birthday, but I’m a little worried about using vinegar. Do you really used simple distiled vinegar? Not a rice vinegar or something? Please, reply!!!
Hello!I really want to make this for my boyfriends birthday, but I’m a little worried about using vinegar. Do you really used simple distiled vinegar? Not a rice vinegar or something? Please, reply!!!
@ Beauty Nerd, Yes, just the distilled white vinegar. 🙂 Hope he loves it!
I found your recipe on Pinterest and tried it tonight. I used half real sugar and half splenda and added a little bit of sriracha to the sauce. Also, I used chicken breasts, so I was afraid that they would be overcooked at the end of an hour of baking time. But they came out perfect. While baking, the whole kitchen smelled yummy! It’s not time for dinner yet, so I’ve ‘taste tested’ them three times already to make sure they really are yummy. I’m not totally convinced and might have to go back for another ‘taste test’! 😉
I made this last night and my husband and I loved it. It was way better than eating out, and cheaper too. This will become a favorite for sure! Thanks for the recipe.
I must say that this dish is absolutely delicious….absolutely simple….absolutely the best thing I have ever made. Thank you!!! Diane
Wow wow wow!!! This looked great but so do all recipes online and 80% of the time the boyfriend has to smile through an okay (or worse) dinner! Not here, this was outstanding!!! Wev got leftovers but desperately struggling not to demolish the lot!! Thank you!!!!! X