Orange Chicken
Created on 12/1/2024
Ingredients:
- Kevin’s Orange Chicken sauce
- 2 pounds chicken thighs
- 2 teaspoon baking soda
- Water 1/4 cup per pound
- 4 teaspoons vegetable oil
- 4 teaspoons oyster sauce or soy sauce
- 4 teaspoons cornstarch
- 4 teaspoons Shaoxing Wine
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 cup cornstarch
- 1/4 cup flour
- 8 cups peanut oil
- Green onion, pale green parts (garnish)
- Sesame seeds (garnish)
Instructions:
Step One: Velveting your chicken 4 hours (minimum) before frying will take your chicken to the next level! Don’t skip this step. Add baking soda and water to the sliced chicken and massage with hands until most of the liquid is absorbed
Step Two: Add oil, oyster sauce/soy sauce, Shaoxing wine (optional), and cornstarch to the meat. Set aside to marinate for 4 hours, and then your meat is ready to fry
Step Three: Take the chicken out of the fridge an hour before you want to fry. Pour the peanut oil into a large pot and set to medium heat
Step Four: Crack one large egg into the chicken, mix well. In a separate bowl, add 1/2 cup cornstarch and 1/4 flour. Mix together
Step Five: Take one piece of chicken from the marinate and add to the cornstarch/flour mixture. Coat the chicken entirely. Then carefully put in the hot peanut oil. Repeat with as many pieces of chicken that can fit in the pot so that each piece of chicken has room to swim around in the oil
Step Six: Let the chicken cook for 5 minutes (it should be nice and crispy). Take the chicken out of the oil with a metal slotted spoon (plastic can melt!) and place on a plate with a paper towel. Repeat until all the chicken is cooked. Once you remove chicken from the oil, give the oil a couple seconds to heat up again before adding more chicken
Step Seven: Turn the heat up on the oil and refry each piece of chicken for about a minute. This gives the chicken a beautiful brown crispy color!
Step Eight: Grab your biggest wok and turn the stove to medium heat. Pour in the Kevin’s Orange sauce. Once that is bubbling, add the chicken. Toss to get the sauce all over each piece of chicken
Step Nine: You did it! You fried chicken and made the best homemade Chinese takeout. Now garnish with green onion and sesame seeds and enjoy
Story: Drew loves this recipe. I try to make it once a month. He likes it with white rice and steamed broccoli. I was make enough for him to bring to work!