Sweet and Sour Lychee Chicken. Chicken and lychee in sweet and sour sauce. This dish is perfect for special occasions such as to celebrate Chinese New Year. This chicken and lychee in a sweet and sour sauce is one of my Mom's staple dish to celebrate Chinese New Year.

Diabetic Recipe: Sweet and Sour Chicken. In a mixing bowl, add batter and meat. Deep fry meat until it turns golden brown. You can cook Sweet and Sour Lychee Chicken using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Sweet and Sour Lychee Chicken

1. You need 4 of bulk chicken thigh (cut diced).
2. You need 1 of canned lychee.
3. It's 1 of red chilli (thinly sliced).
4. It's 1 of thumb ginger (thinly sliced).
5. It's 1 of spring onion.
6. You need 4 of garlic (chopped).
7. You need 1/2 of onion (cut quarter).
8. Prepare 1 tbsp of tomato sauce.
9. You need of Corn starch.
10. You need of Starch.
11. Prepare of Oil.

Mix ingredients for sweet and sour sauce and add a bit of water or lychee syrup (from canned lychee) if necessary; Chop capsicum and onion into bite sized pieces. Dip chicken cubes into egg white, coat in corn flour then fry at medium heat till golden brown. Combine egg yolk, soy sauce, rice wine, cornstarch, salt, and Sichuan peppercorns in a bowl to make the marinade. Absolutely the best sweet and sour chicken recipe I've ever tried.

Sweet and Sour Lychee Chicken step by step

1. Marinade chicken with soy sauce and pepper for at least 10 minutes or put it in a fridge overnight..
2. Heat the pan and oil. While waiting, mix chicken with corn starch. Stir and cover quickly before frying..
3. Fry the chicken then set aside..
4. Heat the saucepan, oil, then put garlic and ginger in until the garlic turn golden brown. Next put the chilli in and onion, followed by lychee with the liquid. Add tomato sauce, sugar, pepper, and salt..
5. Bring the chicken in. Last, put spring onion in. Stir until it is all cooked..

My husband and I thought it was delicious. One comment about the directions: the amount of water to add to the chicken batter is a little hard to interperate. In a large non-stick skillet, heat oil over medium high heat. Season chicken strips and add to pan. Brown chicken and remove to plate.