Sweet & Sour Cold Chicken

Ingredients (serves 4-6)

Chicken – 1 ¼ kg

For sauce

Garlic – 2 clove, minced
Chicken cube flavouring – maggi cubes – ½ cube dissolved in 1 cup stock
Sugar – 1/3 cup
Tomoato ketchup – 1/3 cup
Chillie sauce – 2 tablesp
Vinegar – 1 tbsp
Sesame oil – ½ teasp

Salt to taste
Cornflour - 2 tbsp
Peanuts – 2 tbsp chopped finely
Pickled onions – 6, thinly sliced
Tomato – 1 sliced
Coriander leaves

Method

Leave the chicken whole. In a saucepan boil water. Add salt & chicken. Reduce heat to low & cook for 5 mins. Cover & turn off heat. Leave covered for 15 mins. Soak chicken in iced water. Keep 1 cup stock for sauce. Cut chicken into serving pieces. Chill in fridge.

SauceLightly brown garlic in hot oil. Add remaining ingredients. Boil, simmer for 5 mins. Thicken with cornflour. Pour sauce over chicken before serving. Stir peanuts into sauce. Garnish with pickled onions, tomato slices & coriander leaves. Serve cold.