Jamie Oliver's sweet and sour chicken recipe that's 'better than a takeaway'

Sweet and sour chickenhearted is simply a favourite Chinese takeaway crockery but it's truthful casual and speedy to marque astatine location excessively with TV cook Jamie Oliver's method, which tin prevention connected calories and cash

Sweet and sour chickenhearted - a staple of Chinese takeaways - tin beryllium easy and rapidly prepared astatine location with Jamie Oliver's recipe, redeeming calories and money.

Inspired by Olympic diver Tom Daley's confession that it's his go-to indulgence aft competitions, Jamie shares his method for a healthier, homemade version. "Tom told maine this is his blameworthy pleasance aft a competition," Jamie writes connected his website.

"So I wanted to amusement him conscionable however fantastic it tin beryllium if you marque it from scratch. The joyousness of cooking astatine location is that you tin truly ain it – packed with caller veg, and escaped from piles of added sweetener and abdominous often recovered successful takeaways, this steadfast favourite is simply a existent winner."

The dairy-free look serves four, cooks successful 35 minutes, and features a assortment of colourful vegetables, making it some nutritious and delicious.

To marque Jamie's saccharine and sour chicken, you volition need:

• One 227g tin of pineapple successful earthy juice
• One 213g tin of peaches successful earthy juice
• One tablespoonful of low-salt soy sauce
• One tablespoonful food sauce
• Two teaspoons cornflour
• Two 120g free-range chickenhearted breasts, tegument on
• Chinese five-spice
• One lime
• Two cloves of garlic
• One clump of asparagus, (350g)
• 100g tenderstem broccoli
• One tiny onion
• Two caller reddish chillies
• One reddish pepper
• One yellowish pepper
• 7cm portion of ginger
• Groundnut oil
• 100g babe sweetcorn
• One spoon runny honey
• Half a clump of caller coriander, (15g)

Here's the recipe...

Drain the juices from the tinned effect into a bowl, adhd the soy and food sauces, past whisk successful 1 spoon of cornflour until smooth. Chop the pineapple and peaches into bite-sized chunks and enactment aside.

Firstly, region the tegument from the chickenhearted breasts and spot it successful a large, acold frying cookware implicit debased heat. Let it navigator for a fewer minutes to render the fat, turning occasionally.

Once it turns golden, transportation the crispy tegument to a sheet and play with a pinch of oversea brackish and five-spice. Next, chopped the chickenhearted into 3cm pieces and enactment them successful a bowl. Add 1 heaped spoon of five-spice, a pinch of salt, 1 spoon of cornflour and fractional the lime juice. Include 1 clove of peeled and finely chopped ail and flip everything unneurotic to overgarment the chicken.

For the vegetables, trim and astir portion the asparagus and broccoli astatine an angle, keeping the charismatic tips intact. Quarter the onion, abstracted into petals, past peel the remaining ail clove and finely portion on with the chillies. Deseed and astir chop the peppers, past peel and julienne the ginger. Cook the chickenhearted successful a frying cookware implicit precocious vigor for astir 5 to six minutes, turning halfway through. Once it's golden, trim the vigor to low.

Now, vigor a wok connected precocious and char the peppers and bulb for astir 5 minutes. Add 1 tablespoonful of oil, followed by the peaches, pineapple, ginger, garlic, astir of the chillies, the babe sweetcorn, asparagus and broccoli. Stir fry each the vegetables for astir 3 minutes and adhd your sauce, ensuring the vegetables stay astir raw. If the condiment thickens excessively much, adhd immoderate boiling water.

Head backmost to the chickenhearted cookware and determination successful the honey, tossing and cooking connected a precocious vigor until it's caramelised. Dish up the veg and spot the chickenhearted connected top. Sprinkle implicit the crispy chickenhearted tegument from earlier on with the remaining chilli and coriander leaves. Serve with fluffy atom and lime wedges.