Another one of our household favorites, the Sweet and Sour Chicken. This is one of my go-to weeknight meal ideas and my family love it every time! I promise it tastes just like your favorite carryout and even healthier too, with no preservatives, food coloring and all that stuffs. So follow me along! Just so you know, for sweet and sour sauce recipe, you can use it with pork, chicken, shrimp and even fish. That’s what I love about this sauce, you can pair it with any meat or seafoods. Now let’s get to it! Also, check out the photo below for the right consistency of the sauce. The secret to a perfectly made sweet and sour chicken, is the right amount of flavor and sauce consistency. It has to be thick. The sauce has to be thick like this, when it coats your spoon. You don’t need to deep fry your chicken. Just enough oil to coat the bottom and flip it, to cook the other side. About 2-3 minutes, it depends on your stove. Just make sure your chicken is cook through. The chicken should look like this. If you don’t have cornstarch and eggs or it’s not allowed in your diet, you can just use flour. It should still be crispy. Also, if you don’t like too much breading as well, flour is good enough too. I promise. Saute your vegetables gently, don’t over saute them. The sauce should coat your dish like this. Tada! Just about right. Perfect flavor and consistency with no added unwanted ingredients like preservatives and food coloring that you get from your favorite take-outs. Thank you so much for reading and if you get the chance to try this recipe, please leave me a review. I would love to read some feedbacks. Thank you so much!
Margherita Pizza Recipe
This Margherita pizza recipe is adapted from Tyler Florence from the show Tyler’s Ultimate at Food Network. Since quarantine, all I’ve been doing is cooking. Every single day ! I could not believe it myself either. I’ve never cooked so much in my entire until we were quarantined. No carry outs, yet. I’m not sure if I feel proud or feel sorry for myself hahaha because to be honest, your girl gets tired too. This quarantine period put me in a roller coaster of emotions. But anyway, I don’t want to sway the topic. I’ll talk about that sometime. Let’s stick with the recipe for now, because I have so much thoughts and emotions to share that it deserves it’s own special space. So let’s get to it ! To be honest, I was not a fan of vegan pizza. I want meat on my pizza, until I tried Margherita pizza in a restaurant somewhere in one of those small beach towns here in Michigan. Since then, when we go to a restaurant or do carry outs, we order Margherita pizza. There are different versions and the taste vary from each other. So it’s all about the basic ingredients and the style of cooking. If you don’t know, Margherita pizza is the original style of pizza in Italy. If you want to go back in time, the most authentic way to bake a pizza is in a brick oven. A lot of restaurants even nowadays still do that and if you are lucky to have one in your home, then lucky you! But right now, let’s make it in our electric kitchen oven. As I shared to you the recipe, let me give you some tips. These are very important for you to know before you proceed. Tips: As you preheat the oven 450 degrees F. Put the pan in the oven. When you are ready to assemble your pizza, take the pan out, drizzle the pan with olive oil and put your dough on the pan. Why do we need to do this? So you will have a crispy crust. When you assemble the dough on the pan, you don’t need a rolling pin. You put your dough on the pan and just try to spread it out until it covers almost the entire area of the pan. Ingredients are super important. I highly recommend your herbs to be fresh but if it’s not available, you can use dry herbs. Fresh tomatoes are the best, but if not available you can use canned tomatoes. Recommended: San Marzano If you don’t have a ball fresh buffalo mozarella, you can use shredded mozarella in packs. The good ones are from Costco and Gordon’s. We get our mozarellas there in bulk but a ball fresh buffalo is the original and authentic way for Margherita pizza. We are using shredded pizza here to make it kid friendly. Yes, my kids are quite picky. I’m easing them, including my husband to try new things. I wish I could have done a video but hopefully next time. I will leave a link on how Tyler Florence made it though. It’s very helpful and super easy. VIDEO HERE I know you would say, ” It’s so time consuming April! “. But homemade is always good for you. To be honest, I get tired of cooking everyday but it’s very rewarding afterwards, especially when it comes out exactly the way you want it. Also due to the fact, that you know what ingredients you put in, the food preparation and all that. Most of all, my family’s happy faces, the memories you create, you can’t beat that. Shop the Post JavaScript is currently disabled in this browser. Reactivate it to view this content.
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