Ditch Bottled Sweet and Sour Sauce and Create Your Own – Podcast




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Summary:  <br> <br> No more sweet and sour sauce in a bottle. Here is an easy recipe that you can make your own delicious sweet and sour sauce from fresh ingredients - and toss the additive-laden bottled version.<br> <br> Which dishes come to your mind when you think of Chinese food? For many of us, it’s the Sweet &amp; Sour dish! The bottled stuff has a long ingredient list. But, you can easily make this sauce at home with some simple ingredients, in just under 2 minutes. Today in this No More Packaged Food series, we’re cooking up Sweet &amp; Sauce chicken to show you how easy it is to prepare this dish.<br> <br> What you need to do, is to  dice some chicken breast in cubes, and cut up some bell peppers and pineapples into small chunks. Your next step is to pre-mix the sauce.  Our sauce recipe includes 1 Tbsp sugar, 1½ tsp corn starch, ¼ tsp salt, ½ tsp Worcestershire sauce,1 Tbsp tomato paste, 1½ Tbsp vinegar, and ¼ cup water.  When the chicken cubes are almost done, mix in the pre-mix sauce.  Then, add the remaining ingredients in the cooking pan. The whole process of premixing the sauce only takes 2 minutes! You will have 2 minutes to make a healthy version of the sweet &amp; sauce sauce, won’t you?