Sweet and Sour Chicken and Fried Rice

Ingredients

• 4 chicken breasts
• 2 cups white rice
• 4 cups water
• 1/2 head of broccoli
• 1/3 cup carrots
• 1/3 yellow onion
• 1/4 green pepper
• 8 slices of ham
• 6 eggs
• breadcrumbs
• soy sauce
• 1 tbsp cornstarch
• 2 tbsp water
• 2/3 cup rice vinegar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 2 tbsp ketchup (try homemade ketchup!)
• 2 tsp soy sauce

• serves 4-6 people

Directions

1. Cook the chicken in a large sauce pan. At the same time cook the rice in a medium sauce pan.
2. While the chicken and rice are cooking, prepare the vegetables and ham but chopping and cutting into diced pieces.
3. Once the rice is done put 1/2 stick of butter to prevent the eggs from sticking. Add 4 eggs and mix in thoroughly. Add vegetables, ham  and soy sauce into the rice and stir.
4. Once chicken is done cooking. Dice it and bread by dipping it into eggs and breadcrumbs. Cook chicken in a medium frying pan with vegetable oil until the chicken is browned.
5. Make the sweet and sour sauce. Mix together cornstarch and water in a small bowl, and set aside.  Add remaining ingredients to a small saucepan, and bring to a boil. Add in cornstarch mixture (as a thickening agent) and mix thoroughly.  Continue cooking an extra minute or two, until sauce is thick. Remove from heat and enjoy!