After the success of my Baked Sweet and Sour Chicken and Easy Sesame Chicken a couple weeks ago, I decided to try another of my favorite Chinese take-out foods at home – Mandarin Chicken!
My boys FLIPPED for this stuff. My oldest asked me to make it again next week! {That’s a seriously good compliment, my friends!} The sauce on the chicken was so yummy! Sweet but not too sweet. I couldn’t believe how easy it was to make and how much flavor it had! I love making take-out dishes at home. It saves me money and I know exactly what goes into it. Check out this recipe and see for yourself how easy it is to throw together. I’m sensing a Mandarin Chicken dinner in your near future… 😉
Ingredients
- 1-1/2 lbs. boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into bite-size pieces (I use about 3 breasts)
- 1/3 cup cornstarch
- 2 eggs beaten
- 1/4 cup pineapple juice
- 1 tsp. soy sauce
- 1/3 cup vinegar
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 3 Tbsp. ketchup
- 1/2 tsp. salt
Instructions
- Cut chicken into bite size pieces. Beat eggs in a shallow bowl with a fork; set aside. Pour cornstarch into a shallow bowl and roll chicken in it. When coated, dip chicken in beaten eggs.
- Heat just enough oil to cover the bottom of a non-stick skillet on medium-high heat. Place coated chicken pieces into the pan and heat until brown.
- In a medium size mixing bowl, mix together the remaining ingredients: pineapple juice, soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, ketchup and salt. Pour on browned chicken. Simmer chicken with lid covering only half of the pan to let the heat escape.
- Simmer 20-30 minutes, stirring often, until sauce thickens. Serve with rice and ENJOY!!
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Christine Bell says
Looks fantastic! I love Chinese food! Pinned it and can’t wait to make it.
Christine @ idigpinterest.blogspot.com
Krista Rollins says
Jen, this looks delicious. Love using pineapple in Chinese dishes to sweeten things up. Definitely going to try this one out!
Krista @ joyfulhealthyeats
Liz Fourez says
YUM! I love making take-out at home, and this looks awesome! Thanks so much for partying with us at Time to Sparkle Tuesday : )
xoxo Liz
Becca @ Crumbs and Chaos says
This looks so perfect!
Janine Eshelbrenner says
I gotta love any (easy!) recipe that makes chicken more interesting. This sounds like something my hubby will love and something I won’t mind making. I’m definitely pinning this recipe to my Dinner Made Easy board!
Anonymous says
This looks delish! I am going to make it tomorrow night – already bought the ingredients! Thanks, Jen.
April @ The 21st Century Housewife says
This looks wonderful, and I love how quick and easy it is to put together!
Kimberli B. says
Thanks so much for following me over at Great Tastes Tuesdays! Your blog is so cute! Where did you come up with the design or did you get it somewhere? I am a new follower too! Thanks again for joining mine. Email me back if you would like to be a guest on my Invite a Guest Fridays. I would love to have you share one of your posts!
thelazysuzan.com says
This looks great! And the photographs are beautiful!
Candace says
Sold!! This looks so good.
Jaime @ Mom's Test Kitchen says
We love Chinese food so I’m all for finding recipes that let me make it at home!! This chicken sounds absolutely delicious! Pinned!
Thanks so much for sharing this at Wonderful Food Wednesday Jen!!
Classy Clutter says
HOLY COW!!!!! That looks so good!!!!!!!!! I want some like right now and I just ate dinner!!
Pinning now!
XOXO Mallory
The Busy Bee's says
This looks delish. The family would love it. :o)
We would love it if you would share at or blog, the party is live now.
Thanks,
The Busy Bee’s,
Myrna and Joye.
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Kinsley @ Home | Styled says
Hey there! I found your link at The Best Blog Recipes and wanted to let you know how amazing I think this recipe looks! I want to invite you to my link party to post this recipe for others to see! http://home-styled.blogspot.com/2013/04/link-party-show-your-style-sunday-2.html
Michelle Grundy says
That looks delicious 🙂
Crystelle Boutique says
Yummy! I need to make this for dinner tonight! Thanks for sharing… 🙂
hugs x
Crystelle
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Helen Adams says
Jen, your Mandarin Chicken looks delicious! Thank you so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday and hope to see you again soon!
Miz Helen
Garden Chef's Needle in Pen says
It’s a pity that I was already half-way the chicken dish I was cooking. I could have used your recipe. Okay, there’s still a next time… Hopping from Life in Lakeshore Drive link up.
Dawn Spatulas On Parade says
Looks good. I thought for sure there would be mandarin oranges.
Thanks for sharing at Swap N Share Sunday
Dawn
Kayla Maier says
This looks so delicious!, I just wanted to stop by & let you know that I will be featuring you today at the Circle of Faith link party, it’ll be posted at 5 & open at 6 pm tonight.> http://www.kaylascreationsblog.com/ You can grab a featured button from “my link party buttons” page, hope your having a great week!,
-Kayla 🙂
Nikell says
I saw this recipe over at Six Sisters’ Stuff and had to come check it out. It looks super delish!! I’ll have to try this. Thanks for sharing (^_^)
Mamamia says
I tried this recently and my family and I LOVED it! It truly is so easy and delicious. You can see our results here on our family recipe blog, http://mybiscuitsareburning.blogspot.com/2013/05/easy-mandarin-chicken.html
Thank you for sharing!
Sarah Bates says
This looks delicious! Thanks for joining Foodie Friends Friday. Your recipe was chosen as a Host Favorite and will be featured on Daily Dish Magazine on Monday!
Amy says
Just made this tonight! It turned out great! My picky boyfriend even cleaned his plate! I am still learning the basics of cooking, and your blog has been so helpful! Thank you!
Walda says
Does this recipe really call for 3/4 cup of sugar, or was it a misprint? That seems like an awful lot of sugar. Please respond as I really want to try this recipe. Thanks,
Walda Ruiz
Jen says
Unfortunately, it does call for that much sugar, mainly because mandarin chicken is a sweet and savory dish. Please feel free to use a little over 1/4 cup of Truvia Baking Blend in place of the sugar!
Warren Allen says
I did make this recipe but added a brown sauce/gravy which is served in the Chinese restaurants throughout the Southeast. My homage to the pineapple sauce of this recipe was I added a few tablespoons of pineapple juice to the brown gravy.
The big key to this dish is to make sure your rice not only boils, but also steams.
Margo Denner says
I made this for dinner tonight. It’s a keeper for us, even our picky tween cleaned his plate.
Jen says
Yay!! I’m so glad you all liked it!