Orange chicken is a dish made out of deep fried battered chicken pieces dressed with savoury sweet and sometimes spicy orange sauce. This dish has its Chinese roots which came from an original recipe from the Hunan province, while its predecessor was Chinese this dish is totally American.

Orange chicken is a dish made out of deep fried battered chicken pieces dressed with savoury sweet and sometimes spicy orange sauce. This dish has its Chinese roots which came from an original recipe from the Hunan province, while its predecessor was Chinese this dish is totally American. If we are to look closely at its recipe it closely resembles lemon chicken as well as General Tso’s chicken hence it is often found as a variation of both. The Orange chicken’s traditional recipe calls for dried orange or tangerine peel where it is well used in traditional Chinese medicine but due present recipes are simplified and fresh peel is often used nowadays.

Usually this dish tends to be super sweet, most of the recipes I had seen online calls for cups of sugar for my version we will use way much less of that but it will still have the same fresh sweet taste. A really nice dish to pair with freshly steamed rice and some stir fried or even blanched vegetables.

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