Sweet & Sour Chicken | Constant Cookbook

Ingredients

• sunflower or vegetable oil , for frying
• 100ml soda water , chilled
• 140g self-raising flour
• 25g cornflour
• 4 skinless, boneless chicken breasts , cut into chunks
• spring onions , finely shredded, to serve
• 1 red pepper , deseeded and chopped into chunks
• 3 red chillies , 1 cut into chunks, 2 halved and deseeded
• 425g can pineapple chunks, drained and juice reserved
• 4 star anise
• 50g tamarind paste
• 100g caster sugar
• 100ml rice wine vinegar or Chinese vinegar