Orange Chicken | Fast & Slow Dinner

As you lot mightiness remember, I'm a fellow member of Martha's Circle.  This gives me special access to sponsorship programs through Martha Stewart Living advertisers.  This chance peculiarly intrigued me equally it is near making an slowly dinner at habitation alongside existent ingredients.  Thanks for joining me today as well as supporting my sponsor, Success® Rice.

For the final couplet of weeks I've been talking all near Family Dinners.  I've shared some quick comfort nutrient favorites of ours, ways nosotros brand identify unit of measurement dinners special as well as some shortcuts to getting a yummy dinner on the tabular array near four nights a week.  In add-on to a great, quick recipe for dinner, the Martha squad provided me alongside the supplies to create a unproblematic DIY setting inspired yesteryear the menu.  These piffling touches are what plough an ordinary repast into an "everyday occasion" for your family.  And, when dinner solely takes xv minutes, I'm happy to pass three to a greater extent than minutes to brand the tabular array await cute :)

I cause got never had much success alongside making Chinese nutrient at home.  Even my unproblematic stir-fry doesn't plough out up-to-snuff alongside takeout from a Chinese restaurant.  When the squad at Martha Stewart approached me near this Success® Rice opportunity, I was a flake skeptical that the recipe would stand upward up to Mike's favorite takeout meal, Orange Chicken.  I cause got to tell you, I am therefore impressed alongside this recipe - it actually does practice jurist to the takeout version as well as I'm certain it is much healthier + it took all of xv minutes to brand kickoff to finish.  

Express Orange Chicken

servings: four to 6

2 bags of Success® Rice  (I used Basmati)
1 loving cup orangish marmalade
1 tablespoon white vinegar
1 teaspoon Asian hot sauce
1 teaspoon dry reason ginger
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 packet frozen broccoli florets (or fresh steamed)*
1 pound boneless skinless chicken breasts,
1-inch pieces
1 egg, lightly beaten

1/2 loving cup cornstarch
1/4 loving cup flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon dry reason dark pepper
vegetable crude for frying
*green onions, chopped

Prepare rice according to packet directions.

In medium bowl, combine marmalade, vinegar, hot sauce, ginger as well as soy sauce.  Mix thoroughly as well as laid aside.  (*I heated the sauce inward the microwave for 2 minutes to deal the sauce meld together.) Prepare broccoli according to packet directions as well as laid aside.*

  

In a modest bowl, combine chicken alongside egg as well as coat thoroughly.  In a carve upward bowl, combine cornstarch, flour, tabular array salt as well as pepper.  Remove chicken from egg as well as coat alongside cornstarch mixture.  Heat 1 inch of crude inward four quart saucepan to 375 degrees F.  Fry chicken pieces inward batches until calorie-free chocolate-brown on all sides.  Remove cooked chicken as well as identify on newspaper towels.  In large bowl, toss chicken alongside broccoli as well as marmalade mixture. 

Serve over hot rice.

*So, I totally forgot the broccoli.  I did desire to add together some green, though, therefore I added light-green onions at the end.  They added corking coloring as well as flavor.  In the future, I volition definitely add together steamed broccoli as well as peradventure fifty-fifty carrots, too, only to upward the nutritional value.

The Success® Rice was a breeze as well as turned out perfectly... non commonly the representative at my house.  I didn't fifty-fifty cause got to scrub my pot afterward scorching the rice similar I commonly practice : )  The boil-in-bag concept makes cooking the rice much easier than steaming.  

This is my marmalade sauce prepared.  I also microwaved it for near 2 minutes to thoroughly meld the ingredients together.  I intend it made it much to a greater extent than sauce-like as well as helped it coat the chicken.

Cooking the rice.

I chunked the chicken into 1-inch pieces, them set them inward a bowl, salted them as well as and then added the egg.  I tossed the chicken approximately until coated.

In some other bowl, I mixed the dry out ingredients.  Then, I added the chicken ane yesteryear ane as well as turned to coat them.

I cooked the chicken inward vegetable crude for near 3-4 minutes on each side.

Make certain you lot larn them a piffling golden earlier you lot flip.

All of the ingredients are ready.  The side yesteryear side stride is to add together the chicken to the sauce (that I heated up).

Doesn't this actually await similar the existent thing?  I cause got to say, I'm therefore impressed alongside this recipe.



Of course, this wouldn't move a Martha Stewart Living projection if at that topographic point wasn't a piffling DIY identify setting involved.  The squad sent along the supplies to brand these Chinese inspired settings.  There are coins within the envelope - which thrilled Emma.  I intend she idea the molar fairy had laid the table.

The sense wouldn't move consummate without takeout boxes for leftovers.  I packed these upward for Mike's tiffin the side yesteryear side day.

I'm therefore glad I tried this recipe - completely surprised yesteryear it.  Do you lot cause got whatsoever shortcut recipes similar this that larn inward easier to create quick identify unit of measurement dinners?

Thanks to Martha's Circle and Success® Rice  for sponsoring this post.  All opinions are my own.

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