I love Asian food!! Well, I pretty much love all culture food! Mexican, Italian, Cajun, etc etc! Asian is a hard one for me to work into my lifestyle, leaving out the white rice, sugar, noodles, etc. This dish my Nana would make for us on special occasions. I usually requested it on my birthday. She would serve it with Egg Foo Young (it’s a savory pancake with shrimp and bean sprouts and a sweet sauce, I am going to tweak that one soon). This recipe normally calls for lots of sugar and white rice. I changed that by adding the brown rice and using Truvia. Problem solved!! This is a tasty E meal for Trim Healthy Mama. It’s filling so you really don’t need a side dish but you could serve it with spicy green beans or an Asian salad.
Cook you chicken. I love using my Dutch Oven for this dish! Cook everything thoroughly.
Add the beautifully colored veggies! I love the red bell pepper, it’s sweeter!
Add it to the cooking chicken. Allow to cook a little while.
While the veggies cook, make some brown rice.
Aren’t the colors beautiful! Love it!! Time for the sauce. Mix everything us. You can use the juice of a can of pineapple but make sure it’s just the natural juice, no sugar added!! Add the can of pineapple chunks into the dish or cut up some fresh pineapple into chunks and add it to the dish.
I use a little xanthan gum to thicken the sauce. Normally my grandmother would use corn starch but since I won’t be using that I needed something to thicken the sauce. The xanthan gum worked perfectly. It doesn’t take much at all. If you have glucomannan you could always use that. If you don’t care if its a thicker sauce or not you can leave it out. Also, if you would rather not have the juice, try chicken broth. It won’t have the same flavor but it would still work. Pour the juice over the chicken and veggies. Allow to simmer for 15 minutes.
There you have it. It’s really a simple dish!! Scoop up a bowl of brown rice. Ladle the veggies and juice over the top and enjoy!!
This will easily feed 6 to 8 people! Add more chicken if you want it to go further!
SWEET N SOUR CHICKEN
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Ingredients:
3 chicken breasts cut into chunks
2 to 3 bell peppers sliced
1 onions sliced in rings
1 1/2 cups of pineapple chunks (save the juice from the can make sure it’s just the juice no sugar added)
pineapple juice
1/2 cup vinegar
6 tbsp. liquid aminos
2 to 4 tbsp. Truvia or favorite sweetener to taste
2 tsp xanthan gum (or glucomannan if you have that or do with out but the sauce will be runny not thick)
salt to taste
water if needed to thin out the sauce (1 to 2 cups)
Cooked Brown Rice
Directions:
Cut the chicken into chunks and cook in a big pot. Slice vegetables, onions into rings and bell peppers into strips. Save the juice from the can of pineapple chunks and set aside. Add the veggies to the chicken and cook for 10 minutes. Make the sauce: stir the truvia into the pineapple juice. Add the vinegar, liquid aminos. Stir the sauce while you add the xanthan gum. If you don’t have that or don’t want to use that, you can add a cup or so of cooked rice into the dish to thicken the sauce. That might work as well. Pour the sauce over the chicken mixture and add the pineapple chunks. Allow to simmer for another 10 to 15 minutes and add water if needed to thin the sauce down. Pour over cooked brown rice! Enjoy this yummy Asian dish!!
Mmmmm…yummy!
I can’t tell you how happy I am to see this post! Lol. This is a meal I’ve been wondering about! Going on a trip next week, so I’ll make it when we get back. Yippie thank you!
Oh I hope u like it!! 🙂
Ok, you’ve done it again! Made this recipe last night. We decided to serve it over quinoa instead of the rice. It was really good. I used frozen pineapple instead of canned. I think I’ll use the canned next time so there will be more sauce. Hubby loved it too. His request for tomorrow night . . . Your Shepard’s pie! Here’s to happy, healthy, trimming eating! Thanks for another wonderful recipe!
YIPPY!!! 🙂 So glad!!
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this recipe!! This is my favorite E meal! My family all love it, too! Thank you!! 🙂 Blessings!
Yay! So glad! I love it too!! 🙂
Very good and a quick meal. I did add a bunch of sliced mushrooms as we like them in our Chinese food.
OH what an awesome idea!! Thanks for telling me!! Going to try that!
Yum! I’m looking forward to making this! I may have to add ginger because I can’t get enough of it! 😉
Oh YUM!!! I might have to try that too!!
Hi there!!
If I want to use gluccomannan in place of xanthum gum, how much do I use? Same amount? And how do I add it in? Just stir? Or sprinkle over the whole thing???
Confused. 🙂 Not because of you! NO! Because I can’t figure out gluccie!!
I haven’t tried it… but it might work! 🙂 I would use a tsp at least and sprinkle over the top as you stir! 🙂
Just wanted to say that I added a tsp of gluccie with the method you suggested (shake gluccie over top and stir the sauce at the same time) and it was a perfect consistency once I poured it over the chicken and let it simmer! Thanks! It was my first time using gluccie, too!!!!
Awesome!! I’m so glad that gluc worked too!! 🙂
I have fresh pineapple that I need to use. Should I still buy the pineapple juice or can I use something else.
I would totally use the fresh and just replace the juice with chicken broth! Sounds so good!!
I’m confused about the sauce. What’s in it other than pineapple juice? Maybe I just missed it.
Duh! Nevermind. I found it. Lol.
Awesome! 🙂
Going shopping for the ingredients to make this tasty looking dish tonight, and I’m wondering what kind of vinegar to use? Thanks!!
Hope you liked it! Sorry for not getting back sooner. Moving and unpacking… I just used White Distilled Vinegar!! 😀
My whole family loved it!
Yay!! having it for dinner tonight! 🙂
Have you made this crockpot style?
Well, I have put it from the freezer into the crockpot but I think it would work just perfect in a crockpot! You just might need to wait till the end to do the sauce.
I’ve been wanting some sweet & sour chicken. I’ll have to try this soon!
Just made this tonight! This was awesome! Going into the rotation! I have a hard time incorporating E meals that aren’t boring lol Thank you for sharing all your THM goodness!! 🙂
Yay, this is on my menu for the week too! 🙂
Does it matter what kind of vinegar is used? White or apple cider? Thanks
I used White Vinegar! 🙂
Thank you so much for this recipe! I just made it tonight and absolutely loved it. Can you please put out a cookbook with all of your recipes? 🙂 I love everything that I’ve made from your website!
Thank you!! I am hoping to get one out! Gotta find the time to get it all together! 🙂
Seriously amazing!!! Just posted that I made this for dinner in the main THM facebook group. This is in our bi-weekly rotation for Friday nights….SO FLIPPING GOOD!!
I eyeballed stevia, erythritol, and xylitol for my sweetening, as I’m trying to use up some I have in separate bags. Used 3 red peppers. I also grated in 1 cup radishes in the first step which added extra veggie and totally unnoticed by anyone.
Only thing I’d suggest is mix the sauce then put in the xanthan/gluccie to your liking. I’d measured it in and thankfully only used half of what she called for and it was almoooost too thick when it thickened in the pot. (I also didn’t use the extra water as I had used 1 cup of crushed pineapple in blender for the sauce). Served over wild rice/brown rice/quinoa mix and steam-sauted 2 big zucchini in 1 tbslp aminos and water for the side.
Seriously amazing, huge flavor and tasted like our favorite sweet and sour chicken from a real Chinese restaurant! My kids are excellent eaters but even they kept raving over it, “Mommy! This doesn’t taste healthy or Trim Healthy Mama, it LITERALLY tastes like Sunrise Chinese!!”
AWESOMENESS!!!! I am soooooo happy you liked it!!!!
This was so good. Even my picky 2 and 3 year old kids ate some… and that says a lot since they hardly ever eat dinner
AWESOME!!! I love kid approved meals!
This chicken was astounding!!!!!! I have dabbled with THM somewhat in the past, but have been really determined this time to give it a fair shake. I am a mom of 9 children who loves to cook and enjoys ethnic foods of all kinds! This recipe was so good!!!! I would serve this to company any day of the week!!!! I am looking forward to trying more of your recipes!
I’m so happy to hear this!!! Thank you!!
Made this tonight for friends and their four children. One of the kids refused to eat it, but the rest of us enjoyed it a lot! Thank you.
Hello: Do you cook this with your dutch oven on the stove top?
It sounds delicious, so I’m going to be making it this week! Thank you for sharing.
Lisa
Yes, I love my dutch ovens!
My family Loved this sauce with chicken with fried rice.