Ingredients for Sweet & Sour Chicken

Series Summary

Chicken to the left. Chicken to the right. Chicken all day long. Chicken into the night. Yes indeed chicken is ever present around the clock where ever you may go. Looking up at you from frozen dinner packages, down on you from billboards and back at you from huge produce trucks packed with a hundred of their best friends. The real question in this omni-chicken world is how to distinguish your culinary encounter with this clucking cuisine, how to make your chicken dinner better than the rest. For the solution, we turn to Chef Sven Robinson.

In this free video series, learn how to make sweet and sour chicken with cilantro rice. With Chef Robinson's help, you can turn an ordinary chicken meal into a delicious treat that all will enjoy. Learn the ingredients and utensils you need for this dish. Also, learn how to make a sauce from scratch. Chef Robinson also shows you how marinade your chicken. So, don't settle for a regular chicken meal. Learn how to make sweet and sour chicken today!

Video Transcript

"Alright, let's go over the ingredients that we're going to need, to make this dish. We're going to be taking a chicken breast and we're going to salt and pepper that and then we're going to dice it into chunks and then we're going to put it in our marinade. Our initial marinade, is just going to be clear rice vinegar, some soy sauce and a little bit of salt and we're just going to let that sit for twenty minutes. While we're doing that, we're going to make a vegetable stock. We're just going to take one of our vegetable bouillon cubes and mix it up with a cup of water. We're going to take some butter and some oil and we're going to mix that up with a half a cup of rice and we're going to toast that, then we'll add our, vegetable stock mixture to that and bring it to a boil. When it's all done, we'll be cutting up some fresh cilantro and some basil. While that's working, we're going to be taking part of this carrot and slicing it very thin. We're going to boil it, in the water, until is blanched, until it's nice and soft. We're also going to be cutting up some scallions, an orange, some red onions, green pepper and a red pepper. We're going to be using an egg, we're going to mixing that with some cornstarch and some water and that's going to act as our thickening agent, for our sauce. Our sauce is going to have some sugar and some cider vinegar, in it, as well as more soy sauce. We're also going to be needing some garlic and a little bit of oil."