How to make Orange Chicken at home?

Ingredients

 4-5 servings
  1. 500 gms Chicken
  2. 1/2 Tsp Salt
  3. 4 Tbsps Cornflour
  4. 4 Tbsps All-purpose Flour/ Maida
  5. For Chicken Marination
  6. 1 Egg white (not the whole egg)
  7. 1 Tsp Black peppercorns crushed
  8. 1 tbsp Sesame oil / veg oil
  9. 1 tbsp Soya sauce
  10. 1 tbsp Oyster sauce (Optional)
  11. For Gravy / Sauce
  12. 1.5 cup Orange Juice
  13. 1 Tsp Orange zest
  14. 1-2 inches Ginger
  15. 4 Fresh Red Chillies
  16. 4 Big Garlic cloves
  17. 1 Tsp Kashmiri LAL Mirch (optional- for color only)
  18. 2 tbsps Brown sugar or powdered Jaggery
  19. 1/2 Tsp Black peppercorns crushed
  20. 2 tbsps Light Soya sauce
  21. 2 tbsp White Vinegar
  22. 3 tbsps Cornflour
  23. 1/2 cup water @room temperature
  24. as per taste Salt

 

Steps

  1. Cut the chicken into small cubes, add in all the Marination ingredients and mix it and let it rest overnight if you have time or let it rest for at least 1-2 hours. Then add in the both the flour and salt and mix well. The chicken should be well coated. Now fry the chicken till it is golden brown in colour and is crispy. Fry in batches.

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  2. While the chicken is frying, prepare the sauce ingredients. Zest and juice the orange, make a paste of ginger, garlic and chillies and add into the juice in a big bowl, with enough space to mix the ingredients and not spill. Mix in the cornflour and water seperately and form a lumpfree slurry and add into the juice, add in other ingredients too and give whisk it.

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  4. Once the chicken are fried, in a wok or pan, add in the orange juice mix and stir it frequently because the cornflour will start clotting. Once the sauce is thick in 5-10 minutes or so add in the fried chicken and give it a good mix, let the chicken get evenly coated with sauce. If it dries add little hot water as needed. Do thicken and dry the sauce because once it starts cooling it will thicken more. Check salt if needed add. Serve hot with Chinese fried noodles or Fried Rice etc.

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