This Sweet and Sour Chicken recipe is made as healthy as possible and still give that rice or noodle feel to the dish without the carb overload. Omit the rice and noodles and add flavor with vegetables. We added shredded zucchini and peeled carrots for a noodle feel. Lots of vegetables not only added flavor but lots of color too. Sweet and sour chicken is sweet with carbs, but I have omitted adding any extra carbs by not adding rice or noodles. My husband and I want to start cutting down on carbs in our meals, so I came up with this lower in carbs option.
I know this seems like a lot of chopping, but it does go fast with another butt in the kitchen to help you. After everything was chopped up, it really didn’t take that long to throw in the pan and cook the meal. A time saving tip for dinner would be chop the vegetables the night before so the vegetables are ready to just throw in the pan.
Sweet and Sour Chicken Lower in Carbs Ingredients:
2 stalks celery (I would probably do 4)
1 med Red onion
5 Button mushrooms (I would do 10)
1 Carrot shredded with a potato peeler (2 to serve more)
1 Med sized zucchini
1 8oz can of Pineapple (drained, save the pineapple juice for smoothies)
1 Clove garlic (I just love garlic)
1 Kraft Recipe Makers
Sweet and Sour Chicken Recipe:
1. Start with using half of the simmering sauce while cooking the chicken. I like bite size chicken, since I will be eating this with chopsticks. It is Chinese food right?
2. After the chicken has cooked add all the vegetables and the rest of the simmering sauce. Allow these to cook down for a few minutes. I like to make sure the onions are translucent. I don’t like crunchy onions.
3. After the veggies are cooking for a couple of minutes, stir in the finishing sauce and pineapple. Cook for a couple of more minutes to heat all the way through.
4. Serve with all the ingredients together and eat with chopsticks!
We only had three of us for dinner the night we served sweet and sour chicken. We all three really liked it. Even my little guy liked the chicken. He normally doesn’t like chicken. The box states this will serve 5 and would have, if I had a few more veggies. There was more than enough leftover for lunch for me the next day.
One of the things I love, love, love about Kraft Recipe Makers is the sauces are not packed full of sodium. The sodium content is lower compared to other sauces and mixes I have tried. This gets a thumbs up from mama.
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Molly says
August 10, 2013 at 10:37 amThat looks amazing! We get such in a rut of italian or mexican, I know the kids would love this (and it’s not tacos!)
Jessica says
August 14, 2013 at 8:58 amI am always looking for lower carb recipes. THanks for sharing.
Jenny says
September 4, 2013 at 7:07 pmI stumbled upon your site while looking for directions to make Greek yogurt in my slow cooker, and I was really impressed with your explanation. So I thought I’d check out your other recipes. This is the first one I clicked, and it’s a major disappointment. I can’t imagine anything from Kraft being nutritionally worth much with all of the refined and sugary ingredients they put into everything. I didn’t expect a “box” recipe.
Amy says
September 4, 2013 at 9:36 pmSometimes I even need a little help in the kitchen. With three busy kids I can’t make everything from scratch. I do try really hard to make as much as I can. I chose a recipe that had the fewest amount of ingredients and something I thought my kids would love. I added a ton of veggies to make it lower in carbs than with all the rice and to make this dish more healthy. Some of the things I do like to make are Homemade Cheese Crackers, Butter and homemade biscuit mix. I make sure we have these on hand at all times.