#ORANGE CHICKEN RECIPES FULL#

This is a family favorite recipe – turned healthy. Sabrina lives with her family in sunny California.Crispy orange chicken coated with an einkorn flour mixture is fried until crispy and covered in sweet, fresh, orange sauce. Sabrina has been certified as a ServSafe Manager since 2007 and was a longstanding member of the USPCA Personal Chef Association including being on the board of the Washington DC Chapter of Chefs in the US Personal Chef Association when they won Chapter of the year.Īs a member of the community of food website creators Sabrina Snyder has spoken at many conferences regarding her experiences as a food writer including the Indulge Food Conference, Everything Food Conference, Haven Food Conference and IACP Annual Food Professionals Conference. As a private chef she cooked for private parties and cooked in family homes in the evenings for families on a nightly basis after working as a personal chef during the day. All grocery shopping, cooking and cleaning was done along with instructions on reheating.

#ORANGE CHICKEN RECIPES FULL#

She started Dinner, then Dessert as a business in her office as a lunch service for her coworkers who admired her lunches before going to culinary school and becoming a full time personal chef and private chef.Īs a personal chef Sabrina would cook for families one day a week and cook their entire week of dinners. She is also the author of the upcoming cookbook: Dinner, then Dessert – Satisfying Meals Using Only 3, 5 or 7 Ingredients which is being published by Harper Collins. Sabrina Snyder is a professionally trained personal and private chef of over 10 years who is the creator and developer of all the recipes on Dinner, then Dessert. She creates all the recipes here on Dinner, then Dessert, fueled in no small part by her love for bacon. Sabrina is a professionally trained Private Chef of over 10 years with ServSafe Manager certification in food safety. We love to serve this with Chinese Steamed Rice, dim sum favorites like Crab Rangoon, Egg Rolls, Spring Rolls, or Potstickers and something non chicken like Beef Teriyaki or Coconut Shrimp. When ready to cook be sure to spray with cooking spray or coat with vegetable oil well because the extra condensation from defrosting will cause the breading to soften a bit, so the extra oil will help. You can also bread the chicken pieces and freeze them ahead of baking on a baking sheet. Most Chinese food that is battered is made using dark meat, so while chicken breast is certainly an option, just know it will make the dish slightly less tender. Since we are baking it in the oven the thigh meat will keep the meat more tender and any fat that renders out of the chicken will help to crisp up the bites. You can absolutely use skinless chicken breast in this recipe instead of chicken thighs, the reason I chose to use chicken thighs was because the classic Chinese Orange Chicken recipe is made using chicken thighs. This way your orange sauce will be ready right when the chicken comes out and is perfectly crispy.įinish the dish with some green onions, sesame seeds or extra crushed red peppers as a garnish. To cut down on the time you are working on this orange chicken recipe make your sauce while your chicken is baking. The first thing we do is add the garlic, ginger and red pepper flakes to a pan with a bit of oil to saute before adding and thickening the sauce ingredients. Using the Panda Express recipe most of the flavor comes from garlic, ginger, orange juice, orange zest and sesame oil. Orange Chicken Sauce:Ĭlassic orange chicken sauce is made with white sugar but some recipes call for marmalade or brown sugar. When you break down the panko bread crumbs and make them smaller you won’t have the spiky texture most people have when baking with panko, so it will taste and feel more like a classic orange chicken recipe. The first time you make this recipe make it with this sauce (because yes, it is as good as the Panda Express original), but next time try making my recipes for General Tso’s Chicken or Easy Sesame Chicken using this method for baking the chicken. This recipe is so much easier but uses the same delicious sauce you love and easy enough for dinner tonight. Most people don’t like deep frying because it can be dangerous, messy and it takes a lot of oil.

Baked Orange Chickenīaked Orange Chicken takes the most difficult part of making my crazy popular orange chicken recipe out of the equation (that would be the deep frying). This recipe is healthier because of baking, but has the same sauce as my classic Panda Express Orange Chicken (Copycat) recipe and you should make it immediately and serve it with Easy Chow Mein or Chinese Fried Rice. Baked Orange Chicken made with Panda Express Orange Chicken Copycat Sauce with an easy baked recipe that’s easier and healthier than frying in 30 minutes!

Orange chicken recipes