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Chinese Orange Chicken

Name: How to cook Chinese Orange Chicken - cookcic.com
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4-5 servings
Cuisine: Us

Introduce

Chef :

Jibita Khanna

Chinese Orange Chicken

Orange Chicken is an American Chinese Dish of Hunanese origin. It must be inspired/ influenced by the Tangerine Chicken dish of Hunan Province China. Here I have used the Valencia variety of orange. I love to make with Darjeeling Orange too when I get it in Winters, we call it Suntala in Nepali language. The flavour of which varies slightly from this as per my taste buds. #cppassport #cppchina #cookpadindia

Ingredient

Food ration :

4-5 servings

Cooking time :

1 hr 30 minutes

500 gms

Chicken

as per taste

Salt

3 tbsps

Cornflour

4 Tbsps

All-purpose Flour/ Maida

Egg white (not the whole egg)

1/2 Tsp

Black peppercorns crushed

1 tbsp

Sesame oil / veg oil

1 tbsp

Soya sauce

1 tbsp

Oyster sauce (Optional)

1.5 cup

Orange Juice

1 Tsp

Orange zest

1-2 inches

Ginger

Fresh Red Chillies

Big Garlic cloves

1 Tsp

Kashmiri LAL Mirch (optional- for color only)

2 tbsps

Brown sugar or powdered Jaggery

2 tbsps

Light Soya sauce

2 tbsp

White Vinegar

1/2 cup

water @room temperature

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Cut the chicken into small cubes, add in all the Marination ingredients and mix it and let it rest overnight if you have time or let it rest for at least 1-2 hours. Then add in the both the flour and salt and mix well. The chicken should be well coated. Now fry the chicken till it is golden brown in colour and is crispy. Fry in batches.

* Step 2

While the chicken is frying, prepare the sauce ingredients. Zest and juice the orange, make a paste of ginger, garlic and chillies and add into the juice in a big bowl, with enough space to mix the ingredients and not spill. Mix in the cornflour and water seperately and form a lumpfree slurry and add into the juice, add in other ingredients too and give whisk it.

* Step 3

* Step 4

Once the chicken are fried, in a wok or pan, add in the orange juice mix and stir it frequently because the cornflour will start clotting. Once the sauce is thick in 5-10 minutes or so add in the fried chicken and give it a good mix, let the chicken get evenly coated with sauce. If it dries add little hot water as needed. Do thicken and dry the sauce because once it starts cooling it will thicken more. Check salt if needed add. Serve hot with Chinese fried noodles or Fried Rice etc.