Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, orange chicken. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look 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 well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Orange Chicken is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have orange chicken using 19 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Orange Chicken:
- Prepare For crispy chicken: 250gm boneless Chicken breast pieces(cubed/shredded)
- Make ready 1 Tb crushed black pepper
- Make ready Salt 1 ts
- Take 1 egg beaten
- Get 2 Tb cornflour
- Prepare 4 Tb all purpose flour
- Make ready Oil for deep frying/shallow frying
- Prepare For orange sauce:
- Make ready Juice of 1 orange, freshly extracted
- Take 1 Tb orange zest
- Prepare 2 Tb sesame oil
- Prepare 2 Tb white sesame seeds
- Prepare Handful chopped spring onion greens
- Get 1 Tb ginger garlic paste
- Get 2 Tb cornflour
- Get 3-4 Tb water
- Take to taste Salt
- Make ready 1.5 ts soy sauce
- Make ready 1 ts sugar(Optional)
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:
- Place the chicken pieces in a mixing bowl and marinate with 1ts salt,1tb black pepper and a beaten egg
- Heat enough oil for deep frying/shallow frying in a wok/non stick pan
- Combine 2tb cornflour and 4tb all purpose flour in a bowl and add it to the chicken
- Coat the chicken well with the flour mix
- Deep/shallow fry in batches till both sides are slightly brown and crisp (shallow frying may take more time for this process)
- Rest the fried chicken aside
- Make a thin paste of 2tb cornflour and water
- Heat sesame oil in a wok
- Add ginger garlic paste Sauté for 2-3 minutes on medium heat
- Add orange juice,zest,sugar and salt. Mix well
- Add soy sauce and fried chicken
- Cook on Low heat till the gravy thickens to the desired consistency
- Take off heat and garnish with white sesame seeds and spring onion greens
- Serve hot with plain rice and sautéed/grilled veggies
- Tip: If shallow frying the chicken, make sure you do the same on medium-Low heat only.it may be time consuming, but the chicken needs to cook well.
- Tip: this recipe is great as main or even as an appetiser. Avoid the rice and you have yourself a light and tasty brunch with sautéed veggies!
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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