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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You must love your recipes living on through the magic of Pinterest. 🙂 I tried the sweet and sour chicken tonight and it was delicious! Definitely a keeper. I was so proud that it looked just like your final photo too. Thank you for a great recipe.
Made this last night and it was really yummy. I added green peppers to the chicken while it cooked and used green onion in place of the regular onion.
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Great post!
And there’s next Sunday’s dinner – sorted! Thank you!
I just wanted to say thank you. The sweet and sour chicken turned out fantastic and yummy. I also adapted the sauce into an orange sauce by reducing the sugar to 1/3 cup and adding about a 1/3 cup concentrated orange juice. You can dissolve a tablespoon or so cornstarch into the vinegar to cook on the stove top until thickened if you don’t want to turn the oven on (obviously you also have to cook your chicken until done on the stove top too.)
The chicken was very good!! I didn’t change a thing in the recipe. I will be making it again. I made the rice as well and we weren’t that fond of it. It had too much soy sauce for our liking. I will give it another try soon and make some changes. I love your site..I have bookmarked several recipes to try!
I made this about a month ago and it was so wonderful. I wanted to make it again tonight and couldn’t find my printed copy of the recipe. I have been searching for over a half hour and glad I finally found it again. it is so worth the effort. YUMMMM!
So I just tried making this tonite and 15 mins after I put my chicken in the oven, it BURNED to a crisp! I think it was the sugar in the sauce? I’m a pretty good cook, so I don’t think it was ‘user error.’
Anonymous- sorry it didnt turn out for u. Based off the tons of times Ive made this ,and t also the 100+ comments ahead of yours… This is an amazing recipe. The problem is definitely not the sugar. Sorry.
Do you by chance have the nutritional info for this dish it looks great I am making it this week but Im doing WW so Im trying to portion everything..If not I could do the math myself its just not my specialty:)
I love this recipe and use it ALL the time however to called it “Baked” is kinda silly since you’ve just fried the chicken. I whip this up in the same pan I’ve browned the chicken in and just add the sauce, it cooks down in minutes, no need to turn the oven on… It’s delicious and cuts out an hour of cooking time. Thank you so much for the recipe, it is a frequent go to in our kitchen!
For all of the spicy lovers out there, I wanted to post a comment how I tweaked the sauce recipe to be more spicy! I did half ketchup half hot sauce and a few shakes of crushed red pepper flakes. I also sprinkled a little cayenne pepper on the chicken before frying it.
I have made this recipe several times now, it is delicious! My husband always requests it. The only problem I have is that the sauce never gets very thick. Any suggestions as to how I can fix that?
This was so great! I am just learning to cook and it was a crowd pleaser. Everyone loved it and it was pretty easy to make!
I made this tonight for my boyfriend and I. I’m always trying to find good chicken recipes because we both loving eating it! It came out great. I cut the chicken into smaller cubes and it cut the oven time in half! Thanks for the great recipe! 🙂
I don’t have cornstarch at home and never really use it. Would using all-purpose or self rising flour work well? Or will it turn out too soggy? Looks great and I cant wait to try it!
This was so great! Thanks for sharing! I added sliced frozen carrots to the chicken when I baked it too. Just some added veggies for my kids. 🙂
I made this for dinner tonight and it was wonderful!!!
I just made this and it was fantastic!!!Kids LOVED it!!
I made this one day last week and am making again tonight! Everything turned out better than I had any expectation!!! I used canned peas and carrots and it worked just fine!! Hubby said the rice was better than ANY he had ever eaten out anywhere!!!!!
omygosh! OMG! This is wonderful! I just picked it up on pinterest and sad right down and made it. This is wonderful!
Made this for dinner last night – it’s not really a week-night friendly dinner as it takes a bit of time to do the chicken from start to finish, but it was definitely worth it, the chicken was delicious!! I wasn’t as crazy about the rice, I think I need to tweak it a bit to make it to my liking, but I’ll definitely be making the chicken again, even my picky 4 year old loved it!
Finally I found a recipe for sweet and sour chicken that is absolutely easy and so delicious as the restaurant, all my family really love it!!!!! THANKS!!!! =)
I did this with tofu instead of chicken and it was amazing! The tofu was a little too sugary to my taste and the fried rice a little too sauce-soya-y but if you mix the two in your plate it all equals up. And next time I’ll follow the advice in the comments and cook everythin on the stovetop. This recipe definitely made it into my rotation!