Your favorite Orange Chicken with a tangy sauce that you can make at home, better than take out.
Recipe Update (3/5/14): We made this orange chicken again and it was so delicious! I updated the recipe based on what we had at home and the chicken was even more delicious than it was before. This is a great homemade/better than takeout orange chicken recipe!
Orange Chicken.
Ingredients
For the chicken:
- 2 chicken breasts
- 3 eggs
- 3/4 cup water
- 3/4 cup flour
- 1/4 cup cornstarch
- 1/4 tsp pepper
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 3 cups panko crumbs
For the sauce:
- 1 cup water
- 3/4 cup orange juice
- 2.5 TBS soy sauce
- 3 TBS rice vinegar
- rind from 1/2 orange
- 1 cup and 3 TBS brown sugar
- 1/8 tsp ground red pepper
- 1/2 tsp ground ginger
- 1/2 tsp minced garlic
- 1/4 cup water
- 2 TBS cornstarch
Instructions
- Preheat your deep fryer or a large pot filled with oil to 350-375 degrees.
- Cut your chicken into inch sized pieces.
- Prepare 3 separate medium sized bowls for breading your chicken.
- One bowl with your eggs and water, whipped together.
- A second bowl with your flour, cornstarch, pepper and salt mixed together.
- A third bowl with your panko crumbs.
- Dip your pieced of chicken first in your egg and water mixture, then in your flour mixture, back in your egg mixture again and then into your panko. Set aside.
- Cook chicken pieces in your deep fryer for 3-4 minutes until bread crumbs are golden and chicken is fully cooked.
- Remove chicken from oil and place on paper towels to remove some oil.
- Meanwhile combine your water, orange juice, soy sauce, vinegar, brown sguar, orange zest, red pepper, ginger and garlic in a medium sized sauce pan.
- Bring to a boil over medium heat.
- Combine your water and corn starch in a small bowl.
- Pour your corn starch mixture into your sauce.
- Keep the sauce over medium heat, stirring occasionally until desired thickness is reached.
- Pour sauce over chicken (and rice) to serve.
triedandtasty says
Mmmm!!! This makes me want Chinese food! Pinning!
Kathy says
Is OJ concentrate the frozen stuff still frozen or juice? I am going to try and make this tonight. ..it looks delicious and not too difficult.
Aimee Berrett says
Yep, I just used a little bit of the frozen orange juice concentrate itself (without any water added yet)
Vanessa says
I made this and me and my friend loved it! No one else in the house cared for it too much however because it was super orange tasting and we only used half of the recommended zest.
aimeeberrett says
Vanessa, I’m glad that you liked it!! Sorry that the orange flavor was too strong for some people though! Maybe you could use less orange juice concentrate next time as well, as I think that’s where a lot of the flavor is from as well?
Wende says
Yummy!
PERMANENT POSIES says
Oh, wow! That looks so delicious! I think my grandchildren would even like that.
Rolled Up Pretty says
YUM! I have always wanted to make orange chicken. I wouldn't even KNOW where to start though! Now I do. Even though I'll probably still ruin them. HA! But thanks for linking this up to my blog, I'm sure other people will love it too! 🙂 Hope to see you linking up next Wednesday!?
Anthony says
The photos of the final product look fantastic. They trick you into thinking you can taste all that deliciousness.