A slow cooked classic sweet and sour taste using a whole chicken – packed with flavour!
Submitted by Paulene Christie
Sweet & Sour Whole Chicken
A slow cooked classic sweet and sour taste using a whole chicken - packed with flavour!
Serving: 6
Ingredients
- 1 large chicken (2kg)
- 1 x 440g can pineapple pieces in juice (juice reserved)
- 1 red capsicum (pepper) diced
- 1/2 cup pineapple juice as reserved from can
- 1/4 cup tomato sauce/ketchup
- 1/4 cup white vinegar
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 tbsp reduced salt soy sauce
Instructions
- Place whole chicken in base of slow cooker
- Arrange pineapple pieces and diced capsicum around chicken
- Cook on HIGH for 2hrs
- After 2hrs I drained and discarded all the liquid from the slow cooker (a whole chicken releases heaps!) leaving just the chicken, pineapple and capsicum behind in the slow cooker.
- Combine reserved pineapple juice (from can), tomato sauce, vinegar, sugar and soy sauce and pour over chicken in the slow cooker.
- Continue to cook but now on LOW for another 4hrs
- Carefully lift chicken out at the end of cooking time (be careful to support as you lift as it will be fall apart tender - I use two egg flips, one under the chicken from each end to support it, as I lift quickly onto a serving plate)
- Strain liquid from slow cooker and discard solids
- Transfer strained liquids to a saucepan. Bring to boil then simmer (while stirring) to reduce sauce down by half to a glossy sauce.
- We served ours with rice and steamed broccolini
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I have cooked this more than once as everyone just loves it! I cooked the chicken with the strained pineapple and capsicum for 8 hours on LOW as I wasn’t home during the day, Just before serving, I drained all the juices and added the 5 remaining ingredients for the sauce. I then thickened it on the stovetop with a cornflour/water mix and added the pineapple and capsicum back in. Once thickened, poured it over the chicken and …..yummo !
Made this a couple times. It’s really yummy. And the whole family loves it. Even made it for some friends they loved it too!
Definatly recommend ^_^
Could you use chicken thighs instead of a whole chicken
Sure you could Ann 🙂
Great recipe. At the end, I removed the chicken and took out all the bones. I then used the saute option on the multi cooker and added cornflour to the remaining liquid to thicken the sauce. Served with rice and the 2yo loved it!
10/10 in my house! I followed the recipe exactly but also added 4 thigh fillets to the slow cooker with the whole chicken so it would go further. I also added some chilli flakes at the end to spice it up a bit. Then I crisped up the chicken in the oven a bit while I thickened up the sauce in the slow cooker with corn flour slurry . Served with fried rice (uncle Ben’s I cheated) and steamed Asian greens. Very delicious! Thanks for the recipe!