Baked Sweet and Sour Chicken Freezer Meal Review

Winner, winner, we have another chicken dinner...
 
This is a delicious meal! The recipe is originally from Mels Kitchen Cafe but I found it on Pinterest, and it is was pinned from Life is a Lofthouse! It is pretty tasty. I actually made it last week, and we gobbled it up, so I decided to make it again tonight so I could get some pictures for the blog.

This is the recipe and directions:

Baked Sweet and Sour Chicken

The chicken coating:

3-4 boneless chicken breasts

salt + pepper

1 cup cornstarch

2 eggs, beaten

1/4 cup canola oil

The sweet and sour sauce:

3/4 cup sugar

4 tbs ketchup

1/2 cup distilled white vinegar

1 tbs soy sauce

1 tsp garlic salt

       Start by preheating your oven to 325 degrees. Rinse your chicken breasts in water and then cut into cubes. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Dip chicken into the cornstarch to coat then dip into the eggs.  Heat your 1/4 cup oil in a large skillet and cook your chicken until browned but not cooked through. Place the chicken in a 9x13 greased baking dish. Mix all of your sweet and sour sauce ingredients in a bowl with a whisk and then pour evenly over the chicken. Bake for one hour and during the baking process you will need to turn the chicken every 15 minutes.   

 

I do not bother turning it because I  am lazy, I just make sure to coat it good in the first place, and then again near the end I flip it and stir it around. 

I altered this some to make it freezer friendly. I put the chicken in one bag. I put a small bag of corn starch in, just so I have everything. Then I mix up the sauce and put it in a third bag. Freeze. Then thaw the day I want it. Coat the chicken in the corn starch, beat 2 eggs and coat it again, this time in egg. Brown it up, throw it in a pan, and bake for the hour it calls for. I also like to cut back on the sugar some, I probably used closer to half a cup than 3/4, but I do not always measure exact.  I served it over white rice, and with steamed broccoli and fresh cut watermelon wedges. Pretty tasty dinner, and very little work from the freezer to the table. It is one of the ones I really like from freezer because it tastes just like it would from fresh, but you do all the work ahead of time and in bulk to cut back on the mess and labor the night of. 

Brett claims this is his favorite of the freezer meals thus far! Can't complain when the hubby loves it! The freezer meal recipe version and bag instructions can be found here. I print the bag instructions out on label paper and put them directly on the freezer bag so I have them on hand while preparing the food. Simple as that.