Sometimes you want a quick meal, and you don’t have the time (or the motivation) to spend hours in the kitchen.
For this quick Sweet and Sour Chicken I used the (frozen) Battered Poppin’ Chicken from Aldi. This £1.09 box contains portions of chopped and shaped chicken breast in a breadcrumb coating. When picking these up, note that they also do a Southern Fried version, which probably doesn’t go well with sweet and sour sauce.
These are baked in the oven, from frozen, in about 10-15 minutes.
In my wok I stir fried some (prepared) stir fry vegetables. Once they were cooked, I added a sachet of sweet and sour sauce. I used one I had picked up in Tesco for 50p. I then added the chicken to the wok and served with rice, and topped with some pea shoots I had in the fridge.
Obviously you can cook your own crispy chicken, I have in the past used chicken thigh with a flour coating. I prefer this to Aldi’s Poppin’ Chicken, but it does take more time, and makes more mess. This meal was about doing things quickly.