I don’t make a lot of Chinese food, mainly because I don’t know how. I have an excellent recipe that I actually developed about 6 years ago, but it takes a bamboo steamer and, sadly, I don’t have one anymore.
There was a recipe called “Sweet Hawaiian Crock Pot Chicken” going around Facebook, and the picture clearly showed battered chicken chunks, yet the recipe just called for some chicken cut up and some ingredients thrown into a crock pot and we all know, you can’t make battered chicken in a slow cooker, but I can tell you that the comments were a hoot! I don’t even know how many people complained because they had followed the instructions, but their chicken didn’t look anything like that picture. Yay internet, right?
Today is the start of Chinese New Year, so I thought I would try that recipe, but produce battered chicken chunks, and oh boy did it turn out scrumptious! I am so full, I can hardly write this post, honest. So let’s start this new year off right folks, I give you Pineapple Chicken …NOT made in a crock pot! I hope you all enjoy the heck out of this because we sure did!
Check this out:
Enjoy!
Ingredients
- 1 lb chicken breast cut into chunks
- 1 c gluten free flour
- 2 Tbl corn starch
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 2 eggs, slightly beaten
- 1/2 Tbl vegetable oil
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1/2 c water
- Deep fryer
- 1/3 c gluten free soy sauce
- 1/2 c packed brown sugar
- 1 c pineapple juice
- 1 can pineapple tidbits
Instructions
- Cut chicken into bite sized chunks
- Mix flour, corn starch, baking powder and sugar together
- Add eggs and mix well
- Add vegetable oil and mix well
- Add 1/2 c of water and mix to desired consistency - you can use more if you like
- Coat chicken in batter and fry in a deep fryer for 6 to 8 minutes (depending on the size of your chunks)
- In a saucepan, combine soy sauce, brown sugar and pineapple juice and bring to just under a boil
- Reduce heat and add pineapple chunks
- You can add a little corn starch if you want your sauce thicker
This one sounds delicious too! I’m going to add pepper flakes (prepared with hot oil) to the sauce to spice it up some. Pair with steamed rice this did is going to rock!