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Reviewed: Sep. 19, 2008
This is the best recipe I've found for Sweet and Sour Chicken, but it just seemed like it took forever to make! I know I'll make it again...but next time I might recruit some help so it goes a little faster.
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Reviewed: Sep. 8, 2008
the chicken did turn out looking like the chinese restaurant ones! and it does taste like them too! very very similiar..i only gave it a 4 because i only made the chicken with the batter...i didn't get around to making the sweet and sour sauce, because I made a honey sauce of my own =)
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The reviewer gave this recipe 3 stars. This recipe averages a 4.51 star rating.
Reviewed: Sep. 8, 2008
I really liked the flavor however when you add the cornstarch i would use a mixer over the stove to prevent clumping. Also i didnt have organge food coloring and I would use it in the future because something about your mind eating clear dripped sauce just didnt do it for me. But I will try again!
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The reviewer gave this recipe 5 stars. This recipe averages a 4.51 star rating.
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Reviewed: Aug. 26, 2008
This was pretty good. I liked the way the chicken was crunchy on the outside but stayed moist on the inside. I have come to a conclusion though that I just can't make chines like the local take out. I think that I will just stick with that and use it for those nights I dont want to cook. I recently made these again and just went and got some store bought sweet n sour from the asian store and it was great. I served buffet style with asian beef skewers, cream cheese wontons, shrimp eggrolls, egg drop soup, and korean cookies and sticks dipped in choco sprinkled with almonds.. My kids are still talking about it today.
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The reviewer gave this recipe 5 stars. This recipe averages a 4.51 star rating.
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Reviewed: Aug. 17, 2008
we have not been eating Chinese for a very long time because we believe there is no good Chinese food around here so I decided to make myself some; this is absolutely GOOD, I will make it over and over again. Who needs Chinese restaurants when you can make something BETTER?? Thanks!!!
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Reviewed: Aug. 15, 2008
I was cooking this dish for my whole shift at the fire department I work at. It helps to do some prep work the night before (sauce, cutting the chicken, batter, etc.) But they loved it and wondered where I got it from! Very messy though. There was a lot of aftermath in the kitchen. But I will cook it again.
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Reviewed: Aug. 12, 2008
WOW!!! This was great!
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Reviewed: Aug. 10, 2008
Have made this a few times and we enjoy it quite a bit.
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Reviewed: Aug. 6, 2008
this recipe is almost exactly like mine except i cut up the chicken and coat it with seasoned cornstarch (dry mix) then fry it. then just before serving add chicken to sauce and boil for a few minutes and it will thicken up. it saves on caleries and saves time
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Reviewed: Aug. 2, 2008
There's NO way that you need a quart of oil to fry these in. All it did was make the chicken (while tasty, I will say) get rather soggy and saturated. We couldn't managed to cook the oil off, and ended up having to dump a great deal of the oil into a jar at the end of the evening.
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Reviewed: Aug. 2, 2008
While the recipe tasted pretty good...we found it pretty time consuming. We made it as is and had a difficult time with the batter. I have made other kinds of Chinese foods and would probably make those over this dish again.
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Reviewed: Aug. 2, 2008
Perfect. Better than chinese carry out. Takes a little time but is well worth it. The chicken tastes like it's covered in dumplings!
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Reviewed: Jul. 23, 2008
I am stuffing my face with this as I type and must say it is absolutely delicious. My poor husband cannot stand chinese food, but I always drag him to the chinese restaurant. Now I won't have to! Even my VERY picky 4 year old went back for seconds! Only thing I did different was add baking powder and salt to all purpose flour, as I just don't buy self rising. I didn't use as much oil for frying the chicken, and I mixed the pineapple chunks and, bell peppers in with the sauce after it thickened. Also I sauted the bell pepper as I hate crunchy veggies. Maybe next time I will use more food coloring, as it wasn't quite orange enough IMO. With that said, this recipe is saved, and I will continue to make it many times. Thank you kindly for such a delicious recipe. :)
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Reviewed: Jul. 22, 2008
My Husband absolutely loved this dish! I had to use red food coloring, cause I couldn't find orange so it turned the sauce pink. Next time I will ad more red. It taste just as good if not better than the Chinese restaurant that we order from. Will definately make this again.
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Reviewed: Jul. 16, 2008
Terrific recipe! Added a little onion and garlic powder to the flour mixure for some extra flavor - excellent!!
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Reviewed: Jun. 25, 2008
This is one of the very few recipes that I didn't alter in any way. I did double the recipe to feed a larger group though. The results were amazing! Thanks to another reviewer's post, I paired the Sweet & Sour Chicken with the Egg Fried Rice from this site. What a delicious meal!
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Reviewed: Jun. 22, 2008
This was great!! I've never attempted homemade sweet and sour chicken and this taste very close to what you'd have at a restaurant. Although, I did half the recipe because it makes quite a bit. Keep in mind your frying, so you and your house will smell like cooked oil!!
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Reviewed: Jun. 14, 2008
This tasted just like restaurant style. It was fabulous. however. instead of using all the cornstarch and stuff for the breading on the chicken, I took some advice from Rachael Ray, and I used bisquick, no measurements, just used bisquick, an egg, some milk and some soy sauce, salt and pepper, mixed it together till it was thick enough to make a batter, and then used that to batter the chicken pieces. I only used 2 chicken breasts and there was more than we could eat and my hubby is a BIG eater. It was really good, will definately make again!! Sweet n Sour sauce was a little too sour for my taste, so I added more pineapple juice, and I didn't add the food coloring, so it was just pineapple colored, but it tasted great! Thanks so much for such an awesome recipe!
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Reviewed: Jun. 10, 2008
Love it! Love it! Love it!
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The reviewer gave this recipe 4 stars. This recipe averages a 4.51 star rating.
Reviewed: Jun. 2, 2008
Good recipe. I enjoyed it quite a bit, and my girlfriend liked it even more. My sauce came out a bit watery and a little heavy on the vinegar, but I also scaled the recipe down significantly, and this may have contributed. I added a few splashes of soy sauce to the chicken when I fried it up and threw in a handful of veggies (green onions, carrots, celery, plus the recommended pineapple) right at the end, and then served it all over rice, sort of like a teriyaki bowl. It came out quite nicely, and I didn't find it as labor intensive as the reviews would indicate. Maybe simply because I was frying significantly less chicken?
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