Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, sticky orange chicken. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
This Orange Chicken is about to become one of your weeknight favorites. Our version of the Chinese-American staple is pan fried, which saves you time and energy instead of deep frying. In this video, we show you a Sticky Orange Chicken Recipe. Transfer the chicken, onions and fennel from the marinade onto a baking sheet.
Sticky Orange Chicken is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Sticky Orange Chicken is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have sticky orange chicken using 20 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Sticky Orange Chicken:
- Make ready For the chicken:
- Make ready 2 chicken breasts or 4-5 de-boned thighs, diced, skin removed,
- Take 50/50 mix of plain flour and cornflour to coat chicken,
- Prepare Salt and white pepper to season
- Take For the sauce:
- Take 2 large oranges, juice extracted, rind grated from one,
- Take 2 tbsp Light soy sauce,
- Take 1 tbsp dark soft brown sugar or honey as substitute,
- Take 2 tsp sesame oil,
- Prepare 2 tbsp Chinese rice wine
- Get Other:
- Get 4 cloves garlic, minced,
- Get 2 inches freshly grated ginger,
- Prepare Pinch red chilli flakes, to taste,
- Get 1/2 tsp MSG (optional)
- Prepare 1 tbsp cornflour mixed with 2 tbsp cold water,
- Prepare Cooking oil for shallow frying
- Take To garnish:
- Make ready 3 spring onions, finely sliced,
- Get 2 tsp sesame seeds
So I decided to attempt a sticky orange chicken recipe This sticky orange chicken was made with ingredients I already had in my home (win!) and was. This Chinese Orange Chicken is made with crispy fried chicken coated in a sticky orange chicken sauce. Just like Panda Express but even better! Orange chicken is one of the most popular Chinese.
Instructions to make Sticky Orange Chicken:
- Slice the thigh/breast into chunks after trimming any sinue/fat and then mix together some plain flour, cornflour and season with salt and white pepper. Dredge the chicken pieces well in the mixture until completely coated then lay the pieces out on some kitchen roll until the moisture begins to soak into the flour. This will probably take 8-10 mins. After this has occured, dredge them once more. Set aside.
- Heat enough cooking oil in a pan to fill it for shallow frying the chicken pieces. Once nice and hot at 175 C, fry the chicken pieces in batches until golden and crisp and cooked through turning occasionally. Check the chickens cooked by removing a piece and slicing it in half to ensure it's not pink. Set them upon some more kitchen towel to remove any access oil.
- Mix together all the sauce ingredients. Also have your cornflour water slurry mixture made up and ready. Heat up a wok until nice and hot and add in a touch of oil then add in the garlic, ginger and chilli flakes plus the whites of the onion and MSG. Fry for a few seconds until fragrant then add in the sauce mixture. Once the sauce is bubbling away add in the cornflour mixture and stir quickly to thicken up the sauce further.
- Re-add the crisp cooked chicken pieces and toss well in the sticky sauce. Remove from the heat and serve up. Garnish with the greens of the onion and some sesame seeds. Enjoy! :)
Just like Panda Express but even better! Orange chicken is one of the most popular Chinese. Sticky Orange Chicken Thighs are best served over rice. Whatever kind of rice is your favorite, just remember to get the rice cooking right away so you aren't waiting for the rice to finish once your. Ingredient Notes for Sticky Orange Chicken Thighs.
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