Here’s a simple and delicious orange chicken sauce recipe you can make at home. This sauce is tangy, sweet, and slightly spicy, perfect for coating crispy chicken.
Ingredients:
Sauce:
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- 1 cup Sweet Baby Ray’s barbecue sauce
- 1 cup Smucker’s Sweet Orange Marmalade
- 2 tbsp Soy sauce
Crispy chicken:
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- 3-4 chicken breasts
- 1 cup flour or 1 cup cornstarch (your choice)
- 2 eggs
- Oil (vegetable/olive – your choice)
Directions:
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- In a saucepan, add the BBQ sauce, marmalade and soy sauce.
- Lower the heat and simmer for 20 minutes, stirring several times.
- Meanwhile, cut your chicken breasts into cubes.
- In a bowl, beat 2 eggs, mix the dry ingredients in a separate bowl.
- Dip the chicken pieces in the egg and cover with flour/cornstarch.
- Place on an additional baking sheet.
- Add a thin layer of oil to a skillet and heat to medium/high.
- Add chicken to the heated skillet.
- Cook chicken 3-5 minutes per side until golden/cooked through.
- Drain excess oil.
- Add the chicken to the sauce and mix well.
- Serve on white rice.
- You may also add stir fry vegetables to the rice — bell pepper, broccoli, ect.
This Orange Chicken Sauce recipe is versatile and can be tweaked to suit your taste. If you’re looking for a specific variation (e.g., gluten-free, low-sugar, or restaurant-style like Panda Express), let me know by sounding off in the comments.
