Enjoy a delicious, healthy, and easy-to-make Baked Chinese Orange Chicken recipe. Perfectly paired with vegetables, rice, or noodles for a wholesome meal in 30 minutes.
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Healthier, oven-baked orange chicken, tossed in a delicious sticky orange citrusy sauce! For this recipe, I used orange juice (freshly squeezed or shop-bought). Orange chicken is usually served with white rice, broccoli, green beans or noodles.
Chef Andy Kho created orange chicken at the American restaurant Panda Express in 1987. It is inspired by flavors from the Hunan Province in China and has been on the menu ever since! It is no surprise that the mouthwatering orange-flavored chili sauce has led to so many 'copycat' recipes.
You may also enjoy this Beef Ramen Recipe, Vietnamese Rice Paper Rolls and Easy One Pan Beef and Broccoli.
Why This Recipe Works
- This sticky copycat Panda express Baked Chinese Orange Chicken is sweet, citrusy and delicious.
- It can be served with white rice, noodles or vegetables.
- You can create your own buffet and serve it with Chinese Takeaway Salt and Pepper Chicken Wings, Chinese Vegetable Spring Rolls, Quick Chinese Beef Noodles Recipe and Singapore Rice Noodles.
- The chicken can be prepared in various ways. For example, you can air fry, or pan fry them.
Tips and Substitutions
- Oven tray: To prevent the chicken chunks from getting stuck to the oven tray, grease the tray with oil and lightly brush oil on top of the chunks that are facing upwards.
- Sauce: Taste the orange sauce as you go along because everyone has different tastes. The beauty about making things at home is that you can make them to your taste.
- Spice level: Alter your heat level! If you are a spicy food lover like me then double the amount of chilli you add! If you want a sweeter sauce then add more brown sugar. It is up to you!
- Protein: You can also try this dish with different proteins. For example swap the chicken chunks with prawns, pork, squid and beef. Vegan options: tofu, tempeh and broccoli!
Recipe FAQs
How to store baked Chinese orange chicken?
Sticky orange chicken can be stored in the fridge for 2-3 days. Microwave or heat in saucepan when serving again.
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Baked Chinese Orange Chicken
Enjoy a delicious, healthy, and easy-to-make Baked Chinese Orange Chicken. Perfectly paired with vegetables, rice, or noodles for a wholesome meal in 30 minutes.
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Servings: 4 people
Calories: 422kcal
Equipment
- 1 tablespoon
- 1 Bowl
- 1 Sauce pan
Ingredients
- 3 chicken fillets
- Salt to taste
- Pepper to taste
- ½ cup flour
- ¼ cup cornstarch
- 2 eggs beaten
- ½ cup orange juice
- 2 tablespoon soy sauce
- 3 tablespoon brown sugar
- 3 tablespoon of rice wine vinegar
- A pinch of garlic seasoning
- A pinch of red chilli flakes
- ½ zest of one orange
- sesame seeds
- ½ spring onions
Instructions
- Preheat the oven at 160C. Grease an oven tray with a splash of oil and set aside.
- Chop 2 chicken fillets into square chunks and sprinkle salt and pepper to taste on the chicken chunks.
- Add ½ c and ¼ c of cornstarch into a bowl. Season cornstarch mix with a pinch of salt, pepper and garlic seasoning. Then crack open 2 eggs into another bowl and whisk.
- Dip a chicken chunk into the cornstarch mix, then into the egg, then back into the cornstarch mix and add the chicken chunk into the tray. Repeat this step for all of the chicken chunks, drizzle sunflower oil on top and bake in the oven for 25 minutes or until done.
- While the chicken is baking add ½ a cup of orange juice to a bowl, 2-3 tablespoon of soy sauce, 2-5 tablespoon of brown sugar, 2-3 tablespoon of rice wine vinegar, a pinch of garlic seasoning, a pinch of red chilli flakes, ½ the zest of one orange and stir all of the ingredients together (adjust seasoning if necessary).
- Pour orange sauce into a pan and cook for 5-8 minutes. Once the chicken chunks have finished baking add them to the sauce, toss, sprinkle sesame seeds and spring onions on top and serve!
Notes
- Alter your heat level! If you are a spicy food lover like me then double the amount of chilli you add! If you want a sweeter sauce then add more brown sugar. It really is up to you!
- You can also try this dish with different proteins. For example swap the chicken chunks with prawns, pork, squid and beef. Vegan options: tofu, tempeh and broccoli!
Nutrition
Serving: 334g | Calories: 422kcal | Carbohydrates: 30.25g | Protein: 56.82g | Fat: 6.39g | Saturated Fat: 1.755g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1.502g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1.856g | Trans Fat: 0.008g | Cholesterol: 210mg | Sodium: 441mg | Potassium: 700mg | Fiber: 2.1g | Sugar: 6.15g | Vitamin A: 261IU | Vitamin C: 27.4mg | Calcium: 73mg | Iron: 3.15mg
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