Description
Asian style crispy fried chicken in a delicious sticky orange sauce. Served with rice for a comforting meal.
Ingredients
Scale
For fried chicken
- 300 grams Chicken (cut in small cubes ( 2 1/2 - 3 cm))
- 1 Egg White
- 1 tbsp Rice Vinegar
- 1 tsp Soy Sauce
- salt
- pepper
- 1/4 cup + 2 tbsp Flour
- Oil (for deep frying)
Sticky Orange Sauce
- 1/2 tbsp Oil
- 1 tbsp Garlic (finely chopped)
- 1/2 cup Vegetable Stock
- 1 tbsp Honey
- 1 tsp Soy Sauce
- 1 tsp Rice Vinegar
- 2 tbsp Orange Marmalade (See Note 1)
- 2 tsp sugar (regular white)
- 1/2 tbsp Cornflour/ Cornstarch
- 1 tbsp Water
Instructions
- Heat oil in a heavy bottom pan.
- Mix chicken together with egg white, soy sauce, vinegar, salt and pepper. Add flour and give this a mix, until the chicken is nicely coated with this liquid mixture.
- Fry the chicken pieces until crisp and keep them aside.
- Prepare the sticky sauce by adding soy sauce, vinegar, vegetable or chicken stock , honey, sugar, orange marmalade and keep this aside.
- Heat some oil in a pan and add the chopped garlic to it. Cook this for 1-1.5 minutes and add the sauce to it and let cook for 2-3minutes until it starts bubbling.
- Prepare the cornflour slurry by mixing together cornflour and water. Add this to the sauce and whisk for a minute on low flame.
- Add the fried chicken and mix until all pieces are nicely coated.
- Let cook on low flame for 2 minutes and turn off the heat. Sprinkle some spring onions and serve the chicken with steamed rice or serve as appetiser.
Notes
Note 1: If you dont have orange marmalade or jam, use fresh orange juice instead (1/4 cup)
Keywords: asian, orange, chicken, crispy, crunchy, chinese
