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Low Fat Panda Express Sweet Chili Chicken Recipe
Chili Chicken with Pineapple and Red Pepper
Sweet Chili Pork and Pineapple
This simple recipe is so tasty! Your family will be amazed that you can cook like the local Chinese restaurant and you will like the fact that this Sweet Chili Pork and Pineapple is a low fat recipe you can make quickly. In fact, you can make this with frozen pork or chicken if you heat it just a bit in the microwave, just enough so that you can cut it into chunks.
Your family will never know you didn't really plan dinner! Sweet Chili sauce is found in the Asian food isle. If you don't have it, you can put any Asian sauce you do have into this recipe with some honey and it will taste good too.
How to Cook Low Fat Chili Chicken
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Sweet Chili Pork or Chicken with Pineapple and Bell Peppers
Instructions
- Cut up onions, peppers and pineapple. Fry the onions and peppers in a pan until they are just a little soft. Stir as you fry so that they don't burn.
- Put pineapples in the pan and continue to stir and cook until they are just warm through. Put the onions, pepper and pineapple in a container while you cook the meat separately (I've found this is the key to making stir fry work on American stoves--cook the meat and vegetables separately and put them together just at the end with the sauce. This keeps the vegetables crisp.).
- Here is how to cook the meat so that it tastes like it is fried, but isn't full of fat like most Chinese restaurant food. Put the cut meat on a board and then sprinkle the cornstarch all over it. Use your knife or a spoon to turn the meat over until it is covered all over with the cornstarch
- . Put the oil in the pan (optional). Put the meat in the hot pan and stir as you fry it. Watch the meat and only cook it until it is just done. Check the inside of the meat and when it isn't pink any more, it is done. This will keep it tender and not dry. It works for both chicken and pork.
- Put the vegetable/pineapple mix back in the pan with the meat. Stir and cook until it is heated up. Pour the Sweet Chili sauce and ketchup on top. Add more if you like more sauce. If you want it sweeter, you can add a little honey too.
- Serve on top of rice (which should be done right before you finish the pork and pineapple dish).
Cook Time
Ingredients
- 1/2 Bell Pepper, chopped in 1 inch pieces
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1/2 Fresh Pineapple, cut in chunks (or one can pineapple chunks)
- 1 lb. pork or chicken, cut in 1 inch chunks
- 1/2 cup cornstarch
- 2 TB oil
- 1/2 -3/4 cup Sweet and sour sauce, duck sauce or sweet chili sauce
Perfect Rice
Ingredients:
- 2 cups water
- 1 tea. salt
- 1 cup rice (long grained jasmine or basmati is best)
- Put water in a saucepan.
- Add 1 tea. salt.
- Heat water until boiling. Put rice in and stir.
- Put a lid on the saucepan and lower heat to simmer. Put timer on for 18 minutes.
- When timer goes off, turn off the heat. You can let the rice sit a bit if it still seems to be watery.
- This recipe makes perfect rice for me every time. If you start your rice first, it should be done just as you finish your pork.
Comments
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Thanks Vacation Trip! My kids love this and I think they would eat this and my Honey Chicken recipe every day if I let them!
This is simply mouth watering. Thanks for sharing.
Yum! This looks so easy and delicious!
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Glojud--You can make this with chicken too. Or I think it would also work with fried Tofu. Actually, that sounds really good. I may have to try that!
This recipe look delicious, the way you explain is easy to understand, will have a try. Thanks for the recipe. Vote up.
Don't eat pork but that sure looks delicious!
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Thanks for the comments on the photos. I usually do photos on the side, but I'm experimenting with the whole box photos. I think maybe seeing big pictures in a sequence might even help someone just learn these quick recipes and be able to do them from memory. Helps me anyway!
Great recipe and I must compliment you on your great photos. Sound delicious and I will try to make it sometime.
This sounds like a great dish. I'll save for when it's just me and my youngest, as we're the only ones who like pineapple! Marked up on useful and interesting. Good hub :-)
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Thanks all! I have five kids and I'm trying to eat low fat meals with more veggies--so I need quick healthy things that taste good. With five kids, I need something that I can do without a recipe! I love this recipe and my honey chicken one which is similar. It is the only thing I cook that everyone eats. We love Pei Wei and Panda Express but those get pricey and they have too much fat in the meat for me.
I love the pictures associated with this hub, totally aids in the step by step process. Awesome hub.
I would love to try this recipe. Well-written and illustrated. Voted up, useful, interesting and AWESOME. I am always trying to escape the high sodium levels which usually comes with Chinese food. I can at least control the sodium by making my food at home. Thanks!
This looks like a great recipe. I will share with my wife but this is so simple I think I can make it/ Thanks for sharing.
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