Healthy Orange Chicken
Healthy Orange Chicken could be just the gluten free and dairy free recipe you've been looking for. One serving contains 526 calories, 54g of protein, and 9g of fat. This recipe serves 2. For $3.19 per serving, this recipe covers 30% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. 3 people have made this recipe and would make it again. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 45 minutes. Not a lot of people really liked this main course. This recipe from Foodista requires chicken breast, garlic, orange zest, and rice vinegar. With a spoonacular score of 76%, this dish is good. Similar recipes include Healthy Orange Chicken, Healthy Orange Chicken, and Healthy Orange Chicken.
Servings: 2
Preparation duration: -1 minutes
Cooking duration: -1 minutes
Ingredients:
1 lb chicken breast
1 tsp vegetable oil
1/4 cup orange juice
1/4 cup rice vinegar
1 tsp rice wine
2 Tbs soy sauce
1 Tbs hot chili sauce
2 cloves minced garlic
1 Tbs brown sugar
2 Tbs orange zest
1 stalk green onions
1/4 cup water
1 tsp corn starch
salt and pepper to taste
white rice
Equipment:
plastic wrap
mixing bowl
frying pan
Cooking instruction summary:
Cut the chicken breast into cubes. In a mixing bowl, marinate the chicken with orange juice, rice vinegar, rice wine, hot chili sauce, brown sugar, and minced garlic. Cover the chicken with plastic wrap and press down so the marinade will soak the chicken evenly. Refrigerate for 1 hour. While waiting for the chicken to marinate, prepare the vegetables. Chop the onion into square pieces. Chop green onions and separate the white and green parts. Zest the orange. In a saut pan, add vegetable oil and turn to high heat. Add in the chicken and saut for 1 minute. Toss the chicken and saut for another minute or until caramelized. Transfer the chicken to a dish. Continue to use high heat. Add the chopped onion to the pan and saut until soft. Add the chicken back to the pan, with the white parts of the green onion and orange zest. Cook for about 30 seconds. Add the liquid to the pan and let it simmer to 30 seconds. Add the remaining green onion to the pan and let the sauce continue to reduce and thicken. When the sauce is reduced to desired consistency, add salt and pepper to taste. The orange chicken is done. Serve over white rice.
Step by step:
1. Cut the chicken breast into cubes. In a mixing bowl, marinate the chicken with orange juice, rice vinegar, rice wine, hot chili sauce, brown sugar, and minced garlic. Cover the chicken with plastic wrap and press down so the marinade will soak the chicken evenly. Refrigerate for 1 hour.
2. While waiting for the chicken to marinate, prepare the vegetables. Chop the onion into square pieces. Chop green onions and separate the white and green parts. Zest the orange.
3. In a saut pan, add vegetable oil and turn to high heat.
4. Add in the chicken and saut for 1 minute. Toss the chicken and saut for another minute or until caramelized.
5. Transfer the chicken to a dish.
6. Continue to use high heat.
7. Add the chopped onion to the pan and saut until soft.
8. Add the chicken back to the pan, with the white parts of the green onion and orange zest. Cook for about 30 seconds.
9. Add the liquid to the pan and let it simmer to 30 seconds.
10. Add the remaining green onion to the pan and let the sauce continue to reduce and thicken.
11. When the sauce is reduced to desired consistency, add salt and pepper to taste. The orange chicken is done.
12. Serve over white rice.
Nutrition Information:
covered percent of daily need
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