Double Fried Orange Chicken
This post is all about one of my favorite chicken dinner recipes I make! I’ll be sharing the recipe and steps on how you can make it at home, as well!
Nikki's Easy Double Fried Orange Chicken
Course: DinnerCuisine: ChineseDifficulty: EasyServings
4
servingsPrep time
15
minutesCooking time
30
minutesTotal time
45
minutesI have spent so many years trying to perfect this orange chicken recipe and I finally did it! It's the perfect median between sweet and savory, this is definitely worth trying!
Ingredients
- For the chicken
4 large chicken breasts, boneless, cleaned, and cut into bite size pieces
3 eggs, whisked
1/2 cup corn starch
1/2 cup flour
Salt
Oil, for frying
- For the orange chicken sauce
1/2 cup of orange juice
2 tbs of fresh orange zest
1/2 cup granulated sugar
3 tbs rice vinegar
2 tbs soy sauce
1/2 tsp ginger (fresh or ground)
1/2 tsp minced garlic
1 tsp red chili flakes
1 tsp corn starch
1 cup water
- For the garnish (optional)
Chopped green onion
Orange zest
Sesame seeds
Directions
- To Make The Orange Sauce
- In a medium sized pot, add water, orange juice, sugar, vinegar, soy sauce, ginger, garlic, and chili flakes and heat on medium high for 5 minutes.
- Sprinkle in corn starch and bring to a boil for 2 minutes and reduce to a simmer for 3 minutes, or until mixture begins to thicken, and remove from heat and sprinkle orange zest in and set aside.
- To Make The Chicken
- Combine corn starch and flour in a shallow dish with a heaping pinch of salt.
- In another shallow dish, whisk eggs together and set next the the other dish.
- Dip the chicken in the egg mixture and then the flour mixture and set them aside on a plate.
- Heat 3-4 inches of oil in a pot over medium high heat until the oil temperature is at 350 F
- Cook multiple pieces of chicken in groups, not at once. Cook for 2-3 minutes or until light brown and remove from oil onto a paper towel lined plate. Finish the process for all the chicken.
- After the first round, turn up the heat to 400 F and flash fry in groups for about 2 minutes or until golden brown, not too dark.
- Toss chicken with the orange sauce, any left over sauce can be used with the garnish, or on rice or lo mein.
- Serve it with green onions, zest or seeds if desired.