Sweet and Sour Chicken

I've never really tried cooking chicken before and being one of the more common poultry eaten, I decided that I should give it a try! I've always been a fan of sweet and sour and I think it is only right that I should start my first try chicken dish with it!!
I will be using Korean miso paste which my sister in law got it from a Korean Supermarket for my sweet and sour sauce. If you don't plan to use this miso paste often, you can try getting one of those individual mini sized packaging miso paste from NTUC supermarket at the Japanese food section. Miso is actually a term use by the Japanese and Korean for fermented soyabean paste. So, if you have those traditional chinese bean paste, you can use those as well!

Ingredients: (serves 2)
2 chicken thighs (cut into small pieces
2 tomatoes
A few slices of ginger (preferably older ginger, tastier)
2 gloves of garlic (chopped into tiny pieces)
Coriander Leaves
1 tbsp of oyster sauce
1/4 cube of chicken stock / salt & pepper
1 tbsp of corn flour

Korean Miso Paste

Oil for frying

Seasoning for sauce:

4 tbsp of ketchup
11/2 tbsp of chili sauce
1 tbsp of sugar
1 tbsp of lime juice
1 tsp of Korean Miso paste
Half bowl of water (approx 300ml)
1 chili padi (cut into small pieces) optional

Directions:
Wash the chicken thigh
Marinate the chicken with oyster sauce and corn flour
Add in chicken stock or salt and pepper
Mix well and set aside for 15 minutes

Put all seasoning in a bowl
Mix well and set aside

Heat up wok with oil over medium fire
Once oil is hot, put in garlic and fry till golden brown (beware not to over fry the garlic, as it will taste bitter)
Add in ginger and continue to stir fry
Pour in the chicken and fry chicken till it turn golden brown (probably a good 8~10 minutes)
Add the combined seasoning, tomatoes and let it simmer for another 8~10 minutes (add water if gravy starts to thicken)
Increase the heat and stir well for one last time
Dish out and garnish with coriander leaves (if you don't like the smell of coriander, you can leave it out)
Serve with rice!!

The end product!!

Hmm... It turn out that my first try on cooking chicken was not successful and I was pretty disappointed with the dish. The sauce was good but the taste of the chicken was disappointing. I didn't do a good job is making sure the chicken was well cooked cause the meat was still too soft and there was still traces of blood when I bit off the meat from the bone. I should have use more oil to fry the chicken until it is really golden brown and then drain off the oil before adding in the seasoning. 

Besides that, I would not use chicken stock to marinate the chicken next time because the taste of the chicken stock didn't go well with the sweet and sour sauce. Salt and pepper would be good enough. And lastly, put more GINGER!! It will taste better! 

I hope my sharing on the outcome of my recipe will stop you from doing the same mistake as me. Aaron still can cook, just that he had a bad day... Will do better next time!! =)