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Sweet & sour chicken balls

Sweet & sour chicken balls: what it costs at each supermarket

4 servings 40 mins 554 cal

£7.54 at Tesco for 4 servings

£1.89 a serving, the cheapest of 5 supermarkets

Prices checked 6 November 2026 on each supermarket's website. Updated every night.

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Price at each supermarket

  • Tesco Cheapest £7.54 £1.89 a serving
  • Sainsbury's £8.63 £2.16 a serving
  • Asda £9.03 £2.26 a serving
  • Ocado £9.40 £2.35 a serving
  • Waitrose £14.15 £3.54 a serving

What you pay at the till for every pack the recipe needs for 4 servings, staples like oil, salt, dried herbs and stock left out. You'll have some of it left for another day.

What you'd buy at Tesco

  • Chicken breast Tesco Chicken Breast Mini Fillets 650g £4.50
  • Egg Tesco 6 Mixed Weight Barn Eggs 268g £1.00
  • Orange juice 2 × Tesco Orange Juice Smooth From Concentrate Juice 150ml £0.80
  • Semi-skimmed milk Creamfields Semi Skimmed UHT Milk 1L £0.65
  • Tomato purée Tesco Tomato Puree 200G £0.59

Ingredients

  • Plain flour 125 g
  • Baking powder 10 ml
  • Egg 2
  • Semi-skimmed milk 160 ml
  • Groundnut oil 15 ml
  • Chicken breast 4
  • Orange juice 240 ml
  • Caster sugar 45 ml
  • Tomato purée 15 ml
  • Tomato ketchup 15 ml
  • White wine vinegar 45 ml
  • Cornflour 45 ml

Recipe and method by BBC Good Food. zesd only prices it: follow the method on the original page.

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