Sweet 'n' Sour Chicken over Rice (Easy)

This is a quick meal to prepare and only takes 30 minutes to bake in the oven. Basically all you are doing is cutting up your chicken into bite-sized chunks or strips, whichever you prefer and placing them in the dish with the already prepared sauce. I use a rice cooker to cook my rice, love it! I could not imagine not having one. I am on my 2nd rice cooker in 19 years and it also serves as a vegetable steamer. This recipe calls for 1/2 tsp of cayenne pepper, you can reduce it to 1/4 if you don't like spicy or leave it out altogether. I advise try some in the recipe before you leave it out totally.

INGREDIENTS:

• 6 tbsp olive oil
• 6 tbsp soy sauce
• 6 tbsp honey
• 3 tbsp white vinegar
• 1 1/2 tsp thyme
• 1 1/2 tsp paprika
• 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
• 1/2 tsp allspice
• 1 tsp black pepper
• 3-4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
• 2-3 cups hot cooked white rice

DIRECTIONS:

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Combine oil, soy sauce, honey, vinegar, thyme, paprika, cayenne pepper, allspice, and black pepper in a shallow, somewhat small, baking dish; mix well. 
2. Cut up chicken breasts into bite-sized pieces and then place in the baking dish with the sauce. Stir the chicken to coat with sauce. 
3. Bake chicken for 30 minutes.  
4. Spoon some rice onto a plate, put some chicken on the rice, then drizzle some of the sauce over the rice and chicken. 

 

 

The sauce ingredients

Cut up chicken breast

Whisking all the sauce ingredients together.

The sauce ready to receive the chicken.

Stir to coat the chicken

All coated with sauce, next step, place in oven for 30 minutes.

Done baking, all cooked and in just 30 minutes!