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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I have made the baked sweet and sour chicken on many occasions! I am in looooove!! I have cheated and added pre-breaded/already cooked popcorn chicken chunks and just pour the sauce over them and bake them in the oven until tender and saucy. Thank You so much for this!!
I also make the fried rice along with it. I am not 100% satisfied with it yet but I have done a little bit of tweaking to my taste(I love a lot of onion). 🙂 Overall the best recipes and simplest I have ever found
Ashley, I LOVE your idea of using the pre-breaded chicken. I’m definitely trying that next time! 🙂
This recipe is sooooooo good…I am making it tonight for dinner, the second time I’ve made it and I can’t wait to eat it!!! My kids love it too!!
Just when I thought this couldn’t get better…I added some Sriracha this time…:)
This was SO delicious! Seriously tasted like takeout. Thanks for the great, easy recipe.
Can you make this without the sauce? (Like sauce on the side?)
This is the best recipe I’ve ever found on the internet and I make it often. Love it–thank you!
Fantastic! My husband who doesn’t usually eat sweet and sour loved it, and the fried rice was even more of a hit. Will be making this again and again.
This is fantastic, I make it often for my family!!!
This meal here was awesome . I would definitely recommend to all. This is not a 15 min meal, but at the end of the day you will get high quality restaurant taste.
Recipe and photo by Life in the Lofthouse
Love it! I’ve made it a couple of times. Delicioso!
This is a no fail “LOVE IT” meal for my family and I. And it’s gluten-free (if you use gluten-free soy sauce). I can’t say enough about how yummy it is.
This is a family favoirte. Anytime i ask for suggestions this is what is suggested. i have even made it with pork and it is really yummy also.
Super duper yummy! My family’s #1 requested meal now :0)
This was delicious! I’m making it again tonight for some guests, thanks so much for the recipe 🙂