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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The baked chicken was amazing, i used cider vinegar cuz i had it and still great. i just wish i could figure out how to make this more weight watchers point friendly.
Fabulous! My husband said it immediately goes into our top 5 meals rotation. We sauteed some onions and yellow bell peppers to have along with it, and I agree you could get away with using 1/2 c of corn starch. Thank you once again for an amazingly delicious recipe!
I just made this tonight and it was delicious! Thanks for sharing the recipe. I will be adding this to the rotation because my family loves Chinese.
This was absolutely fabulous. My boys (my teenaged son and his dad) went crazy over it. I served it up with fried rice and egg rolls and they chowed it down. This one is definitely a keeper, thanks so much!
(my next culinary adventure is to make that Sweet Fire Chicken)
We just had this for dinner tonight. WOW! I’ll say it again, WOW! My family (with 2 very picky girls age 6 and 9) LOVED this and told me it tasted like the perfect take-out! Thanks for making my job easy tonight! 😀
This recipe is so good and easy to make! I’ve made it 4 times already over the past 6 months and every time it’s in the oven I have teenagers in the kitchen willing to “help” out. (and asking “is it done yet?”)
This is so good! It works really well to make ahead and do the frying, mix the sauce then pour over when you want to cook. Can even do the day before so everything is quick and easy for dinner.
This is delicious!! I made it for the second time today and it’s such a hit! Paired with the rice, it’s simply the perfect combination. Thanks so much!!
Do you know if this can be frozen? I’m looking for freezer meals for my son and daughter-in-law to have after the baby comes. Looks delicious!
I made a triple batch today…one of which will be frozen in a freezer baggie with the sauce in a separate baggie. I will thaw both bags before throwing the sauce on the chicken and tossing in the oven. I think it will be fine. If you freeze it with the sauce on it its’ going to be one big frozen log. May burn the bottom before it fully thaws/cooks.
I made this tonight. It was GREAT!! We all loved it. I made 4 small breasts and we could have used more for sure.
I made this tonight. It was fabulous!
This was super yummy! Boyfriend gave me 2 thumbs up! will definitely safe this recipe!!! You;re awesome.
Have you ever made this rice with shrimp? I would like to know how you would cook your shrimp with this.. like shrimp friend rice.
I hate garlic do I have to add garlic?
I have been making this recipe for a couple years now, still one of our favorites. One of the only dishes my husband and I try to beat each other to the leftovers. Well worth the time to make
This is my FAVORITE EVER recipe. As in …history of the internet or cookbooks. I have made it probably a dozen times. It IS time consuming but it is SOOOOO good! I also like that it is very forgiving. You can pretty much add and subtract ingrediants with a good result. I always add waterchestnuts to my rice and cut the soy sauce and have used brown sugar instead of white because that’s all I had…always delicious!
I very rarely leave comments on sites; It’s hard to say something that hasn’t been said before! But I’ve been making this recipe for friends and family for almost two years now and it’s always a hit. Even the picky neighbourhood kids will eat it when they come for dinner, and I usually have to increase it! My SIL is Celiac, and this is something we can all enjoy!
So…. thank you, thank you, thank you so much for such a simple and easy recipe!
We LOVE this recipe. Started making it a couple years ago and it’s a favorite in my house…even to my 3 little picky eaters. This chicken and rice is better than any takeout
This is a delicious recipe and quickly became a family favorite! We did add a few things to make it our own (pineapple chunks-drained, and 1 red bell pepper).
Thank you for a new fun dinner for the whole family!
How many pounds of chicken did you use?
I’ve made it a few times and it is my husband’s and my favorite meal! I was just wondering about the lbs because I like to make this in big batches so I need to know how much sauce to make.
Thanks!!!
I know this is an older recipe, but my kids love this and requested all the time. It’s a little labor-intensive but definitely worth it. Thanks for the recipe!
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I’ve made this a bunch of times and it is DELICIOUS!!!! It does take some work, but so worth it. We are never disappointed eating this and by some rare miracle there are leftovers we fight for them!!
My kids love this recipe SO much, they both ask for it on their birthdays! It’s so easy and so good. Just a little time consuming. But I’m perfecting that we make it so much!
This recipe is my spirit animal. Seriously this is the best!!!! And I’m not an experienced cook at all but this tasted exactly like takeout but you dont have to question what kind of meat it really is… lol A++++++!! And I shared it with all my friends!