Hi, I’m Marie. Today, we’re going to make orange chicken recipe. Never skip today’s recipe. This is a simple recipe to try and is one of my family food recipes. Nowadays, I will make it a little bit more unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious. Not to mention, it’s super satisfying.
Orange Chicken Recipe
Orange Chicken is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Orange Chicken is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have orange chicken using 19 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Orange Chicken:
- Make ready For crispy chicken: 250gm boneless Chicken breast pieces(cubed/shredded)
- Prepare 1 Tb crushed black pepper
- Get Salt 1 ts
- Get 1 egg beaten
- Get 2 Tb cornflour
- Get 4 Tb all purpose flour
- Get Oil for deep frying/shallow frying
- Take For orange sauce:
- Get Juice of 1 orange, freshly extracted
- Prepare 1 Tb orange zest
- Make ready 2 Tb sesame oil
- Make ready 2 Tb white sesame seeds
- Prepare Handful chopped spring onion greens
- Prepare 1 Tb ginger garlic paste
- Prepare 2 Tb cornflour
- Take 3-4 Tb water
- Prepare to taste Salt
- Prepare 1.5 ts soy sauce
- Prepare 1 ts sugar(Optional)
Instructions 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!
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