• Cookbook of the Month Recipe – Sweet and Sour Chicken

  Filed under Main Dishes - Chicken
  Nov 6
  Last year when I got laid off, I had this idea in my head of what life as a stay-at-home mom was going to be like. Part of the idea was dinner on the table every night. The first couple of months after Abbi was born, I realized that it is just not that easy. My baby was definitely my priority, and dinner often got pushed to the back burner.

  Fast forward to now. My beautiful girl is now 9 months old, and almost doesn’t seem like a baby any more. But still, sometimes dinner is hard to get on the table. Maybe it’s the time of day – she’s usually so good about playing by herself and keeping herself occupied, but as soon as the evening strikes, a lot of the time she wants full attention. I try to keep her entertained by letting her watch me make dinner while sitting in her high chair. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t. I’ve had a fair share of times that dinner ends up half made on the stove, only to end up eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for dinner.

  I loved quick and easy dinners before, but now I completely love them. Don’t get me wrong, I love to make something complicated and “all out” every once in awhile, but for every day – quick and easy is my mantra. And really, it doesn’t get any easier than this recipe. Seriously – a total of probably 5 minutes of prep work, throw it in the oven and less than an hour later, dinner is on the table. That is exactly why I chose this recipe. Another recipe you can make while holding a 9-month old in one hand!!

  I was pleasantly surprised by how much I liked this. As I was making it, I thought to myself, “you never like things made with these onion soup packets. Why in the world did you choose this recipe??” But I’m glad I did, because it was quite tasty, and even better the next day! I think I should start rating recipes by how good they are as leftovers sometimes! And even though this is nothing fancy or spectacular, I’d totally make it again!

  Recipe Rating: 4.1 out of 5

  Sweet and Sour Chicken
  adapted from Recipes from River View

  Serves 4

  4 chicken breast halves
  1 cup Catalina salad dressing
  1 cup brown sugar
  1 envelope dry onion soup mix
  rice, for serving

  Preheat oven to 350F. Place chicken in a casserole dish.

  In a small bowl, combine the dressing, brown sugar and onion soup mix. Pour over chicken breasts. Cook in preheated oven for about 45 minutes, or until no longer pink in the middle.

  Serve over rice.

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  6 Comments

6 Responses to “Cookbook of the Month Recipe – Sweet and Sour Chicken”

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   Kelly said on November 6th, 2009 at 4:12 pm

   Mmmm looks delicious – I bookmarked it so I can remember to make this!

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   Grace said on November 6th, 2009 at 7:13 pm

   catalina dressing, eh? i don't think i've ever sampled that, but i certainly like the brown sugar aspect of your glaze.

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   Barbara said on November 7th, 2009 at 3:57 pm

   Never thought of doing chicken with a sweet and sour sauce- so used to pork! This is worth a try because it looks fast, easy and tasty!

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   girlichef said on November 9th, 2009 at 12:15 pm

   Yum, this sounds delicious…and looks so simple!

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   Valerie said on November 13th, 2009 at 5:53 pm

   This really does seem simple and looks good. I'll be giving this one a try today. I would love to shave off an hour off my dinner cooking time tonight.

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   Valerie said on November 16th, 2009 at 9:23 pm

   Yum! Yum! I did make it and we loved it. I'm always glad to find fast recipes that taste good. I just blogged about it. Thanks!

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