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Sweet and sour chicken with fresh pineapple

Serves: 4

2011-08-17

Ingredients

For the chicken

  • 1 fresh pineapple
  • 4 tbsp plain flour
  • 2 tbsp corn flour
  • Pinch baking powder
  • Pinch sugar
  • 1 egg
  • cold water
  • 2 chicken breasts cut into cubes
  • Cooking oil for frying

Sweet and sour sauce

  • 50g sugar
  • 1tsp minced garlic
  • 1 tbsp ketchup
  • Juice of a lime
  • 1 tbsp rice wine or dry sherry
  • 1 tbsp light soy sauce
  • 1 tsp corn flour
  • 1 tsp water

Method

Start by cutting the pineapple in half lengthways. Remove the pineapple flesh from the skin and chop up the flesh into small cubes. Keep the pineapple skins whole as you will be serving the chicken in them. Next, start preparing the sweet and sour sauce. Put the sugar, minced garlic, ketchup, lime juice, rice wine or dry sherry and the soy sauce in saucepan and simmer gently for 5 minutes. Put the corn flour and water together in a glass and mix well. Add to the sweet and sour sauce, and mix to thicken. Take the sauce off the heat and put to one side. Next, you need to make the batter for chicken. Mix together the flours, baking powder, sugar and egg to make a paste. Add enough water to make a nice thick batter. Dip the chicken pieces into this batter, coating them all over. Immediately fry the battered chicken pieces in hot cooking oil, till golden brown, turning around constantly to get an even colour.It is important that you place the battered chicken pieces in the oil one at a time, otherwise they will stick together. Remove the cooked chicken pieces from the hot oil with a slotted spoon and put onto kitchen towel to absorb the excess oil. Finally, mix the chicken pieces with the pineapple chunks and the sweet and sour sauce. Serve the sweet and sour chicken in the prepared pineapple skins.
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Tiġieġa b`togħma ħelwa u qarsa u bil-pineapple friska

Ingredients

Għat-tiġieġa

  • pineapple friska
  • 4 mgħaref dqiq plain
  • 2 mgħaref corn flour
  • niskata trab tal-ħami (baking powder)
  • niskata zokkor; bajda; ilmakiesaħ
  • 2 isdra tat-tiġieġa, imqattgħin f’dadi
  • żejt tal-ikel għall-qali

Għaz-zalza

  • 50g zokkor
  • kuċċarina tewm, mitħun
  • mgħarfa ketchup
  • il-meraq ta’ lime
  • mgħarfa nbid tar-ross jew sherry (dry)
  • mgħarfa light soy sauce
  • kuċċarina corn flour
  • kuċċarina ilma

Method

Aqsam il-pineapple min-nofs għat-tul. Neħħi l-qalba minn mal-qoxra u qattagħha f’dadi żgħar. Erfa’ n-nofsijiet tal-qoxra tal-pineapple għax għandek bżonnhom biex isservi fihom. Imbagħad lesti z-zalza. Itfa’ z-zokkor, it-tewm mitħun, il-ketchup, il-meraq tal-lime, l-inbid tar-ross jew ix-sherry u s-soy sauce f’kazzola. Sajjar fuq nar bati għal 5 minuti. F’tazza, itfa’ l-corn flour u l-ilma u ħawwadhom sew flimkien. Żid din it-taħlita maz-zalza u ħawwadha biex tagħqad. Neħħiha minn fuq in-nar u warrabha f’ġenb. Imbagħad lesti l-panura għal mat-tiġieġa. Ħallat iż-żewġ tipi tad-dqiq, it-trab tal-ħami, iz-zokkor u l-bajda biex tifforma taħlita ratba. Żid biżżejjed ilma biex ikollok taħlita magħquda. Għaddi l-biċċiet tat-tiġieġ minn din it-taħlita u iksihom minn kull naħa. Aqlihom dritt f’żejt jagħli sakemm jiħmaru u ibqa’ dawwarhom biex jiħmaru minn kull naħa. Importanti li titfa’ l-biċċiet tat-tiġieġ waħda waħda fiż-żejt, inkella jeħlu ma’ xulxin. Tellagħhom miż-żejt b’mgħarfa mtaqqba u poġġihom fuq karta tal-kċina biex tneħħi ż-żejt żejjed. Imbagħad ħallathom mal-biċċiet tal-pineapple u maz-zalza għal togħma ħelwa u qarsa. Servi t-tiġieġ fil-qxur tal-pineapple li tkun warrabt.

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