How To Make Orange Chicken Recipe (Panda Express Copycat)
Here’s the ultimate Orange Chicken Recipe, a delicious crispy fried citrus chicken dish with flavors reminiscent of the orange chicken from Panda Express.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 1egg
- 1tspwhite pepper
- 1½tspsalt
- 2chicken breasts,cubed
- ½cupcornstarch
- ¼cupflour
- vegetable oil,for frying
- 1tbspoil
- 2tspgarlic,minced
- 1tbspginger,minced
- ½tspchili flakes
- 1tbsprice wine
- 1½tbspsoy sauce
- 5tbspvinegar
- 1½tbsptablespoons water
- 3½tbsptablespoons sugar
- 1tbsporange zest
- scallion,chopped, for garnish
For Cornstarch Slurry:
- 1tbspcornstarch
- 1tbspwater
Instructions
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Combine the egg, white pepper, and salt in a mixing bowl. Add the cubed chicken breast, making sure it’s coated with the egg mixture.
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In another bowl, combine corn starch and flour. Add the coated chicken to the flour mixture. Stir to coat.
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Working in batches, fry the coated chicken until golden and done. Remove with a slotted spoon and set aside.
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In a large pan or wok, add oil, garlic, ginger and red chili flakes. Stir fry until fragrant.
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Add rice wine and stir for a few seconds. Proceed to add all of the other sauce ingredients, including soy sauce, vinegar, water, sugar, and orange zest.
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Add the fried chicken. Stir to coat in sauce. Thicken the sauce with the cornstarch slurry.
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Garnish with chopped scallions and serve with rice.
Nutrition
- Calories: 713.66kcal
- Fat: 30.35g
- Saturated Fat: 6.19g
- Trans Fat: 0.26g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 15.44g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 6.76g
- Carbohydrates: 61.47g
- Fiber: 1.61g
- Sugar: 12.76g
- Protein: 42.11g
- Cholesterol: 191.34mg
- Sodium: 838.98mg
- Calcium: 55.23mg
- Potassium: 517.87mg
- Iron: 2.48mg
- Vitamin A: 77.05µg
- Vitamin C: 5.60mg
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