Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, orange chicken. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Stir in the orange zest, brown sugar, ginger, garlic, chopped onion, and red pepper flakes. Now, for orange chicken (and other similar sticky chicken dishes), the coating for the chicken is key! I do the back-and-forth-between-the-two-halves-of-the-shell thing, but you can separate the whites however your heart, soul, or family tradition dictates.
Orange chicken is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Orange chicken is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook orange chicken using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Orange chicken:
- Get 2 boneless chicken breast
- Prepare 1/2 cup orange juice
- Take 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- Prepare 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- Make ready 1 tablespoon oyster sauce
- Get 1 tablespoon sesame oil
- Make ready 1/4 teaspoon chili flakes or chili pepper
- Prepare 2 garlic cloves (optional)
- Take 2 tablespoons corn starch
- Take 1 teaspoon corn starch (for thickening)
- Make ready 4 egg whites
- Make ready Vegetable oil for frying
- Take Sesame seed and spring onions for garnishing
- Make ready to taste Salt
Serve over hot cooked rice and sprinkle with fresh parsley, if desired. Coat chicken pieces in egg, then toss in cornstarch mixture, tapping off any excess. In a large, deep skillet over medium-high heat, heat ¼'' oil. Fry chicken in batches until golden and crispy.
Steps to make Orange chicken:
- Break the eggs and separate the egg white from the yolk
- Next, add the corn starch into the egg white and whisk together very well. NOTE: The purpose of this step helps the chicken to be crispy and solid
- Next, cut the chicken into bit chunk sizes then add to the mix and combine all together well.
- In a low medium heat, heat the vegetable oil, then us the kitchen tong to pick the chicken and drop it carefully into the oil, fry till its golden brown. NOTE: Don't over crowd the oil and keep a very close eyes on it too.
- Next, in a pot or pan on medium heat, pour the orange juice and simmer.
- Next, add the soy sauce, oyster sauce, sesame oil and continue to cook.
- Next, add brown sugar, salt, chili flakes or chili pepper and the thickner and stir all together
- When cooked this is how it should look like, pour in the fried chicken and combine all together
- Remove from heat and serve
The key to the best orange chicken lies in, not surprisingly, the orange sauce. The ingredients are easy to find. It calls for orange juice, orange zest, soy sauce, sugar, apple cider vinegar and chili sauce. This Chinese Orange Chicken is made with boneless skinless chicken breast, cut into bite-size pieces, dredged, and then fried until golden and crispy. It is a sweet orange sauce made with orange juice, vinegar, garlic, sugar, soy sauce, ginger, red chili flakes, and orange zest.
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