Healthy Sweet and Sour Chicken

Skip the takeout and try this Healthy Sweet and Sour Chicken recipe instead. This easy homemade version will not only cut the calories in sweet and sour chicken it is also gluten free!

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Healthy dinner recipes are always useful. Besides this sweet and sour chicken, other popular chicken recipes are this creamy Chicken Broccoli Bake, or if you like a little more spice in your life try this tasty Arroz Con Pollo. Check out my Dinner category for lots of healthy dinner ideas.

IN THIS POST: Everything you need to make Gluten Free Sweet and Sour Chicken

What you need for this recipe:

This gluten free sweet and sour chicken uses standard pantry and grocery staples which is nice. Healthy swaps are arrowroot starch for flour, coconut sugar instead of white sugar, and a sugar-free variety of ketchup. Ketchup is surprisingly high in sugar.

• chicken breasts
• arrowroot starch
• eggs 
• coconut oil
• onion
• bell pepper

For the healthy sweet and sour sauce:

• coconut sugar
• ketchup
• vinegar
• faux soy sauce or soy sauce
• garlic powder

This gluten free sweet and sour sauce has a perfect balance.

Step by Step

First, to make the batter for sweet and sour chicken toss the pieces of chicken in a bag with the arrowroot powder and shake well to coat each piece.

Next, set yourself up a breading station with a bowl of whisked eggs and a clean plate.

Dip the chicken pieces in the egg and transfer them to the clean plate. They get flash cooked in a hot skillet with coconut oil.

Did you know coconut oil is very stable at high heat? Coconut oil is excellent for this type of cooking.

After the pieces are cooked, transfer your chicken to a casserole dish.

Finally, layer with some chopped veggies, and cover with your sauce.

Some prefer their sweet and sour chicken with pineapple but this recipe is without pineapple. This is where you would toss in a few pieces before baking if pineapple is your thing.

This gets popped into the oven to get all delicious. 😉

In the meantime, you can make rice to serve alongside it.

TIP! Have you tried my fool-proof method for cooking brown rice? I swear by it.

If you want something really special to serve this chicken with you must try this pineapple rice recipe. It is the perfect side dish!

My homemade version is a hit with my picky fella and delivery to our house is few and far between. 😉

More gluten free chicken recipes:

• Chicken Bean Soup
• Coronation Chicken Salad
• Chicken Cauliflower Casserole
• Sopa de Lima – Mexican Chicken Lime Soup
• Easy Chicken Taco Salad
• Chicken Wild Rice Soup

**This recipe was originally posted on February 25, 2015, updated on April 1, 2020, and updated again on August 30, 2021, with recipe notes, writing, and photos.**

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