Delicious, Easy To Make Sweet and Sour Chicken Meal Prep
Prepare your week or weeks ahead with this easy-to-make sweet and sour chicken. It’s easy to make, cheap and tastes delicious. All of the nutrition/macro values are included in the recipe so that you know exactly what you’re eating and monitoring it correctly. Any additional information is also included in the video below. Please enjoy.
Ingredients
Sweet and Sour Sauce
- ½ Cup (125ml) - Light Soy Sauce
- ⅓ Cup (80ml) - Pineapple Juice
- 4 Tbsp Tbsp (80g) - Honey
- 2 Tbsp (40ml) - Worcestershire Sauce
- 2 Tbsp (40g) - Apple Cider Vinegar
- 2 Tbsp (40g) - Tomato Ketchup
- 2 Tbsp (12g) - Tbsp Corn Flour or Corn Starch
- 4 - Garlic Cloves, Minced
- 15g (0.53oz) - Ginger, Peeled & Minced
Sweet and Sour Chicken
- 2 ½ Tbsp (50ml) - Grapeseed Oil, Divided
- 1.4kg (3.09lbs) - Chicken Breast or Thigh, Diced
- 3 - Bell Peppers (Capsicums), Large Diced (Any Colour Is Fine)
- 1 - Brown (Yellow) Onion, Sliced
- Seasoning To Taste
Rice
- 300g (10.58oz) - Basmati Rice, Washed
- 600g (600ml) - Cold Water
- Salt To Taste
Instructions
- Slice the chicken breast into even-sized diced pieces. Slice and dice the bell peppers (capsicums), slice the onion and grate the garlic and ginger. Add the bell peppers and onion together.
- In a bowl, add all the sauce ingredients and whisk. Set aside.
- Add the oil to a large pan or wok over medium-high heat, add in the oil and fry the bell pepper and onion mix for 4 minutes or until soft. Remove from the pan.
- Place the same pan back over medium-high, add in the oil and fry the chicken for 4-5 minutes or until lightly golden. Add in vegetables and mix well.
- Add in the sweet and sour sauce, mix well, bring to a simmer and cook for 2 minutes or until thick. Sprinkle over sesame seeds (optional), check seasoning and remove from heat. Portion into airtight containers. Dig in.
Basmati Rice
- Place the rice, water and salt to taste in a saucepan over high heat. Bring it to a boil, cover, reduce the heat to low and cook for 12 minutes. Turn off the heat, leave the lid on for 4 minutes, then fluff with a fork or spatula.
Nutrition Guide
The above nutrition guide is based on daily averages and is calculated for a single portion.
Recipe Notes
Storage Instructions
To store, place the sweet and sour chicken into airtight containers and place them in the fridge for up to 4 days and in the freezer for up to 4 months.
Reheating Instructions
To reheat the sweet and sour chicken, add it to a pan over medium-high heat and gently heat it. This can also be done with the rice, which will be more like a stirfry. Alternatively, it can be reheated in a microwave in bursts until hot throughout.
Watch How To Make The Recipe
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i could make batches of this and eat it for lunch for the rest of the week lol ~
Haha its the best way to do it.
Love this one, my absolute favorite! Doing meal-prep since a few months and I really appreciate your work here! Keep going 🙂
Great to hear. Glad you’ve been enjoying it. Thank you.
what is the size of the food container are you using?
They’re 750ml
Im an absolute fan of your recipes and videos! Makes cooking easy, delicious and nutritious. Sometimes making these large portions is difficult if you don’t have a large pan and a gas stove, it would be really cool to see a recipe that makes a big batch like this but uses the oven instead to bake the protein. 😊😊
Hi, Bruno. Thank you so much for that. I’ll see what I can come up with for future recipes.
Usually not a big fan of sweet sour pork/chicken, but this version is awesome.
Thinking about starting a meal prep club at work, and your recipes will be my go-to.
This is a great combination. Glad you enjoyed it
Absolutely love every single one of your recipes. I have struggled with trying to scale a single recipe into 5 or 7 meals but realized that just multiplying stuff doesn’t work. I appreciate your content a lot for measuring everything (including the caloric information) and all the advice you give out during cooking that makes me learn more and more about the art of cooking. You’re the best Jack!
Thank you very much! Im so glad the recipes are helpful to you and youve been enjoying them.
This looks amazing! I need to try this one 👌
Thank you