Sweet and sour chicken with potatoes

original post:

http://greedygirlcooks.blogspot.com/2014/09/sweet-and-sour-chicken-with-potatoes.html

Ingredients

1 lb chicken breast tenderloins

1 teaspoon seasoning salt

½ teaspoon black pepper

3 tablespoon oil

1 cup flour

Enough oil for deep frying

3 white potatoes

Sauce

¼ cup Red bell pepper

¼ cup Yellow bell pepper

¼ cup Green bell pepper

1 teaspoon oil

¼ cup onion

¼ cup Ketchup

1 whole Lime juice

2/3 cup Pineapple jam

½ tsp. salt

1 tbsp sugar

Instructions

• Peel the potatoes and chop into 1 inch cubes and put to soak in salted water
• Chop onions, sweet peppers into very fine pieces
• Chop the clean chicken into cubes season with seasoning salt, black pepper and oil
• Heat a deep pan with enough oil till the temp is between 375 and 400 degrees
• Strain the potatoes and pat dry place in the hot oil and fry until golden brown and crispy set aside on a cooling rack or paper towels
• Place the seasoned chicken and flour in a zip loc bag and shake vigorously coating the chicken with flour
• Remove the excess flour and fry in the hot oil until golden brown and crispy set aside
• Sauté the onions green, yellow and green peppers in some oil
• Add ketchup, jam, lime, salt and sugar mix until the jam has melted and all the ingredients have come together
• Toss the chicken and potatoes in the sweet and sour sauce and serve.

Greedy tips:

• In actuality any jam can be used, it does not have to be pineapple. I choose pineapple for the citrus properties, it adds both sour and sweet, any citrus fruit jams, even apricot jam, I'm sure would be just fine for the sauce.
• I personally don't use berry jams (strawberry blackberry blueberry etc.) just because they are mostly sweet and flavors tend to be very strong and over powering.
• when you strain the potatoes from the salted water, don't wash them off, just strain and dry them.
• I did not give the amount of salt for the salted water to soak the potatoes because i don't know your container size and water quantity. A good test to know if your water is salty enough is to taste it, if you cant taste the salt in the water then its not salty enough. Its the sated water that is seasoning the potatoes.