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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Found a link to your website on Pinterest and made this for dinner tonight. My husband usually doesn’t like chinese good (but I do!) and he actually finished all of his chicken. I, of course, loved it. Thank you for sharing!
I found your sweet & sour chicken recipe on Pinterest and it has quickly become one of my favorite go-to recipes! I have made it a handful of times, and each time I seem to love it all the more. I usually just serve it over plain brown rice, the sauce from the chicken mixes with the rice and you get to really enjoy the flavor. I love this chicken, thank you so much for sharing the recipe, this is definately a keeper!
Ok, at 46 years old, I am just becoming interested in cooking. THIS is THE best thing I’ve ever made. It was a huge hit with everyone in the family and the recipe was easy enough for me to follow and not screw up.
Making the chicken now, smells amazing! (: I added a green pepper and onion to the chicken like the Chinese restraunt always does, plus more veggies is healthier!
Food La Verne
This is amazing! It literally tastes like the unhealthy version from a Chinese food place! I can’t wait to make it again an again and again!!!
I saw this recipe two days ago and I was obsessing about it! I made the chicken yesterday and the fried rice today….both came out so good!!!! Even my picky husband and son who don’t really love sweet n sour asked for seconds!!! It is definitely craveable! I saw the comment about soaking the chicken in baking soda/water first so I did that and the chicken was really tender! Sauce was delicious!!! thanks for two great recipes!!!!!
I finally decided to try this dish. All I can say is “Wow”. This was surprisingly delicious! My entire family loved it. (I substituted white rice for the fried rice).
I made this exactly as the recipe stated and it was amazing! My entire family loved it and then the grandchildren came over and those picky eaters also loved it! LOL Will be making this one over and over!!
This is such a great dish!! I’ve made it and so have all of my friends! Thank you for letting us all post & re-post this on Pinterest! And most of all, thank you for sharing it with us!!
This looks amazing and delicious. But i must confess, Im a dipper. I was wondering if you think the chicken would still cook the same in the oven if i dont put the sauce on it. In our house we all dip our food into different things (usually, i use what goes with the meal, and the kids insist on ranch, UCK) But do you think that will affect the outcome if i dont cook it with the sauce? Or will the sauce be different? I know i will have to heat it up.
Just wondering! Thanks for any input!
Is the chicken skinless or skin on?
This was the best meal that I have ever made, hands down. I am not that great of a cook but following your recipe was easy and my family ate it up. Suggested this page to friends and they love it, too! Thank you!!
My family loves Chinese food and this hit the spot! I’m adding it to our meal rotation. The only change I made was to add pieces of broccoli and use teriyaki sauce in place of the soy in the fried rice. Thanks for posting!
I absolutely love this recipe but I was wondering if I could substitute the canola with another type of oil. Do you have any suggestions?
Thanks!
I’m not going to lie but I love this recipe so much I make it once a week and hide the leftovers for MY lunch 🙂
Anyone have any ideas for making this without the eggs? This sounds soooo goood, but me and two of my kids are allergic to eggs… ? Thanks!
I just made this an although it smells delicious and looks great and we are about to eat it I think next time I’d half the soy sauce. I just tasted it and 1/4 cup is a little more than I’d prefer. It seems to take away all the taste and is overpowering. Next time I’ll try 1/8 cup. Still smells and looks delicious though.
I made this a couple weeks ago and my boyfriend and his brother loved this. I’m about to make this again tonight and can’t wait to eat it.Most Chinese places around here are buffet restaurants and they don’t really like to go to buffets so this is really convenient I’m glad i found this.
OH MY GAW……. This stuff rocks the house. The breading for the chicken fell off so it didn’t look as pretty as your picture. BUT dang already it was still tasty and the rice is good too – I’m not a huge fan of fried rice but this is so much better than the crap you get at the restaurants. NO leftovers for lunch tomorrow – darn it This will be a staple on our monthly meal plan. THANK YOU
I made this last night for dinner, WOW! I will never need to eat this in a restaurant ever again! I am going to use the left over chicken on salads for dinner tomorrow night!
I did my own rice but the chicken recipe in AWESOME thank you for sharing!
Can i use pork?
Oh my gosh…SO GOOD. I doubled the sauce (because that’s how we roll) and it turned out spectacular. Served it over jasmine rice (I didn’t have the ingredients for the fried rice). YUM YUM YUM!!!
Amazing! I made this for the second time in a week! Tonight we had my parents and brother over for dinner and I made it for them. They all LOVED it! I even sent them a link to your blog with the recipe. Husband, children, parent, and sibling approved, what can I say? This will be a family favorite for a long time. I used chicken thighs (very well cleaned of fat) the second time around and it came out just as good. I also used brown rice for the the fried rice and subbed frozen corn and fresh chopped carrots for the frozen peas and carrots due to my son’s legume allergy. I’m so glad I found your blog on Pintrest!
I’d like to Pin this to Pinterest. Is that an option?
Sorry, I found it on Pinterest Thank You