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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This was amazing!! My family even asked me to cook it again the very next day, so today was our second night of eating the fried rice and sweet and sour chicken!! Delicious!!!!!!
This was delicious! I made it for my husband and my son and his family (includes 2 kids ages 3 1/2 and 1 1/2. We all loved it! I also made the fried rice to go with it. Will definitely make this again and again. Thank you!
Love, love, love this recipe! Always a hit, especially with kiddos. Thanks for posting this!
Everything (the kitchen, me) is an absolute MESS now…but I can’t day enough thanks, because I already know it will all be SO worth it!! = ) My friend pinned this on her Pinterest page. My family has been making it at least once a month since I discovered it. Always a huge treat for us!! Pretty labor intensive, but well worth every bit of effort!!
The chicken is amazing!!!! It’s a keeper for sure! The only thing i would change on the fried rice, is lower the soy sauce amount, mine turned out too dark and not as pretty in color as the one here.
Yummy thanks for sharing this great recipe x
My wife does something similar with a home made fried rice, for some reason though we’ve never put in peas! It seems silly after seeing the pictures now though. Anyway, that looks really, really good.
I really want to make this tonight! I’m salivating! Holly can I sub the sesame oil with anything else, or should I make it just without? Thank you!
Hi Nicole! You don’t have to use Sesame oil, regular vegetable oil or canola would work just fine 🙂
I want to freeze this recipe. Have you tried this at all? how would you suggest to do it?
Tried this for supper tonight, it was delicious! There was none left!
Thank you for sharing this recipe – it was fabulous! I love that we just had Chinese for dinner without forking over extra money for it, and knowing full well what was in it!
Great recipe. Sometimes I also cook this at home. I put vegetables in rice.
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Thank you so much for this AMAZING recipe! I pinned this awhile back and just made it tonight. It is definitely going in the rotation!
I made this tonight and it was a hit! There were zero leftovers, but I wish there were so I could have some for lunch tomorrow. SO good! Going in the rotation.
I have made this several times and it turns out great everytime. I have used less sugar sometimes. I made it tonight with cooked shrimp, just skipped the oven part, cooked down the sauce and then added it to the crispy shrimp. Cut down the time quite a bit. I always make it with the fried rice and I have used all kinds of rice, it always turns out yummy.
I am a girl who loves to bake and cook. I looked at this “pin” on Pinterest. Based on the popularity of said pins I decided to make it. Let me say this…this is THE best chicken recipe out there. My husband gets excited when I make it and I feel the hour of bake time is pure torture…yet worth the wait. However, I have timed it perfectly in the sense that after the 2nd time flipping the chicken(30 min.) I start my rice then. By the second to last timer goes off I start prepping my fried rice so that it is all done at once. This is a recipe that will never leave my home. =)
This is a perfect recipe! My friends and I love it!
I made this two nights ago and everybody in my family let me know I should have made more..tonight is my anniversay an my husband asked me to make it again!! very good and by far my fav sweet an sour thus far
I can’t stress it enough…..THIS IS ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS!!! Tasted even better than my favorite Chinese restaurant! I was out of sugar, so I used Splenda and it worked perfectly. The fried rice is perfect!
This recipe is so amazing! I have made it a few times now and my family and friends all loved it. I just wish it was a little healthier, its a lot of sugar for one meal. But the great thing is there are a lot of possibilities for substitutions in this recipe.
Hello Holly, I came across your blog about a year ago and I have made a number of dishes from your blog that were all very good. I come back often and look through your blog for inspiration. I must tell you that this fried rice is nothing short of amazing. It is probably my husbands and my favorite thing that we make at home. We can not find a restaurant in Sarasota, Fl where we live that serves fried rice that can compare. Thank you so much for the awesome recipe.
This was SO SO good!!!! I made the chicken and rice last night and my husband loved it! I grilled the chicken and then put the sauce on it and baked/broiled it to get the sauce nice and thick. It was great and I will definitely be making again, thanks!