No Chinese on Atkins Diet – Pshaw! Low Carb Sweet n’ Sour Chicken recipe

You think of typical Chinese foods, and you often think of breaded deep fried pieces of meat with overdone vegetables submerged in a corn starch-filled sauce that has enough simple carbs to cause glycemic shock.  Before Atkins, I would have been in bliss by this thought and readily had a second or third helping of this dish.   I have done other Chinese recipes in the past like Potsticker patties, Faux Fried rice, Chinese Orange Chicken, or Teriyaki Stir fry, but one I hadn’t tried yet is one of my kids’ favorites — Sweet and Sour Chicken.

With Sweet n’ Sour recipes, you typically get this florescent shade of reddish-pink sauce coating your food, and this recipe comes pretty close to that look and certainly to that taste.  I would urge you guys to give this sauce a try either as a stir fry like I did or as a sauce for low carb chicken nuggets.

Ingredients:
1.5 pounds Chicken Tenders
2 cups Broccoli
1 cup Cauliflower
1/2 Large Onion
1 Green Pepper
2 stalks Celery
2 cloves Garlic – Sauce -
1/3 cup Low Carb Ketchup (Better than Heinz Ketchup – http://www.genaw.com/lowcarb/evenbett… )
1/3 cup Apple Cider Vinegar
1 TBS Soy Sauce
1/2 cup Splenda or liquid equivalent
1/2 tsp Xanthan Gum
Makes 6 Servings

Nutrition Info:
256 Calories, 9g Fat, 7g Total Carbs (2g Fiber), 36g Protein