Your favorite orange chicken
If you clicked this you might’ve imagined your favorite from Panda Express, but this right here . . . this is better. It’s made with real ingredients and will leave you happy not gassy.
Ingredients:
Sauce
3/4 cup cane sugar
3/4 cup white wine vinegar
1/3 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup filtered water
Zest & juice of 1 ripe orange (remix it with lemon for lemon chicken!)
1 tbsp corn starch + 1 tbsp water (makes a slurry)
4 cloves of garlic grated
Chicky
1 1/2 teaspoon pounds of chicken thighs (or breast if you’re into that)
Salt (Redmonds is best)
2 cups buttermilk Non-dairy (Add a lil lemon to your ND milk and let rest for 10 min)
Salt, Pepper, Paprika to change color above
1 cup corn starch
1/2 cups organic unbleached flour
Oil for frying (avocado, canola, something with a high smoke point)
Instructions:
Sauce
Sauce first: In a medium sauce pan combine cane sugar, vinegar, soy sauce, water, and orange juice/zest. Boil for 10 min whisking regularly, it should reduce 25% (it should be gettin thicccc).
Lower your heat to low then add your slurry and let reduce even further (thiccy & sticcy) then add garlic for 5 min. Stir until well incorporated.
Chicky
Chop chicken into pieces then add to a medium bowl & cover with buttermilk. Add salt, pepper, and garlic powder then incorporate.
Add oil to a cast iron or heavy bottom pot and heat to medium/medium low. Let heat for 10 min before frying.
Combine flour, corn starch, salt, pepper, paprika, and onion powder in a medium bowl then drop your chicken in. Make sure each is completely coated!
Add chicken to the oil. Fry for 4-7 min or until a light golden brown, pull when ready.
Once oil has drained from the chicken, place in a bowl and cover with your orange sauce. Swish it around and make sure it gets in EVERY crevice of that chicken.
Serve with rice & veggies really whatever you’re into.
Leave no leftovers! I’m joking, you don’t have to but I’d understand if you did.
Feel free to get creative with this recipe – you can swap out the orange for lemon, add a sprinkle of cayenne or chile flakes for a little more kick.