Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, orange chicken - instant pot. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
The Orange Chicken is made entirely in the Pressure Cooker/Instant Pot, so fewer dishes for you to clean. Made with orange juice and orange zest gives the dish an amazingly fresh aroma. Sweet and hearty, served over brown rice, this dinner is so much healthier than takeout and also budget-friendly, as you will have leftovers that taste great.
Orange Chicken - Instant Pot is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Orange Chicken - Instant Pot is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook orange chicken - instant pot using 24 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Orange Chicken - Instant Pot:
- Make ready 2 lbs chicken breast cut into 1-2 inch pieces
- Take 2 Tbsp oil
- Take 1/4 c orange juice
- Get 1/3 White or yellow onion chopped large
- Prepare sauce
- Get 3/4 c orange juice
- Get 1 tbps hot sauce or taco sauce
- Prepare 1 tbps white wine
- Prepare 1/3-1/2 c tomato sauce
- Make ready 1/4 c soy sauce
- Make ready 1 tbsp curry and ginger powder mixed as you see fit
- Get 1/4 c sugar
- Take 1/4 c brown sugar
- Make ready Orange zest
- Prepare thickener
- Prepare 2-3 tbsp cornstarch
- Make ready 2 Tbsp orange juice
- Make ready garnish
- Get 1/2 c cashews
- Make ready Green onion - chopped
- Prepare Orange zest
- Make ready rice
- Get Make some white rice or brown rice or a rice packet
- Get Enough rice to be happy
Bright and fresh orange flavors are combined with Asian flavors to make this perennial take-out favorite at home. Instant Pot Orange Chicken Orange chicken is so tasty and it's a popular option at Chinese takeout restaurants. Why not make it at home instead? My version is probably much healthier than most restaurants since the chicken is not breaded and fried.
Instructions to make Orange Chicken - Instant Pot:
- Dry chicken breasts with paper towels, make them dry. Don't skip this. Chop chicken into 1-2in chunks.
- Turn instant pot to saute on high (more). When it is at Hot, add the oil, chopped onion and chopped chicken. Stir constantly until chicken is just browned on all sides.
- Add the 1/4c orange juice and deglaze the pot with a wooden spoon. When done, cancel the instant pot.
- Add the sauce ingredients to sauteed chicken. Add everything under sauce section and stir until combined and over all chicken pieces.
- Manual pressure cook for 6 minutes. Natural release 10-12 minutes. While your waiting, make the thickener… Mix the cornstarch and orange juice until all clumps are gone. More cornstarch equals thicker sauce.
- Release the pressure and turn back on saute mode (low or normal now). Add the cashews from garnish section. Slowly mix in thickener slurry and stir while cooking for 2-3 minutes until sauce is thick.
- Turn off instant pot. Let sit for 5-7 minutes.
- Spoon over there rice and add green onion and zest as final garnish when serving. Enjoy it inside your face.
How To Make Orange Chicken In The Instant Pot? Make the sauce: Place orange juice, sugar, honey, soy sauce, vinegar, Chinese wine, garlic, sesame oil, ginger, cayenne pepper, and orange zest in a medium bowl and whisk to combine. The first step to making Instant Pot orange chicken is to make the fresh orange sauce. You'll whisk together all of the sauce ingredients in a bowl: orange zest, orange juice, brown sugar, soy sauce, apple cider vinegar, garlic and fresh ginger. If you want some spice to your homemade orange chicken, add a pinch of red pepper flakes.
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