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Instant Pot Orange Chicken is healthier than takeout and easy to make using your Instant Pot. Made with fresh orange juice and orange zest for great flavor. We love using Instant Pot to make easy and delicious dishes.
Orange Chicken - Instant Pot is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Orange Chicken - Instant Pot is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have 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:
- Take 2 lbs chicken breast cut into 1-2 inch pieces
- Get 2 Tbsp oil
- Prepare 1/4 c orange juice
- Get 1/3 White or yellow onion chopped large
- Make ready sauce
- Take 3/4 c orange juice
- Take 1 tbps hot sauce or taco sauce
- Prepare 1 tbps white wine
- Take 1/3-1/2 c tomato sauce
- Make ready 1/4 c soy sauce
- Take 1 tbsp curry and ginger powder mixed as you see fit
- Get 1/4 c sugar
- Get 1/4 c brown sugar
- Get Orange zest
- Take thickener
- Make ready 2-3 tbsp cornstarch
- Get 2 Tbsp orange juice
- Make ready garnish
- Prepare 1/2 c cashews
- Prepare Green onion - chopped
- Take Orange zest
- Prepare rice
- Make ready Make some white rice or brown rice or a rice packet
- Make ready Enough rice to be happy
Orange chicken is so tasty and it's a popular option at Chinese takeout restaurants. This fast and easy Instant Pot orange chicken is a lifesaver on a busy day. Bright and fresh orange flavors are combined with Asian flavors to make this perennial take-out favorite at home. This Easy Instant Pot Orange Chicken is sweet, citrusy, tender, slightly spicy and OH SO delicious!
Steps 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.
Pressure cooker and slow cooker directions included. Instant Pot Orange Chicken with a sweet and sticky orange sauce and fluffy rice. This orange chicken recipe is easy to make and everything cooks at once in your Instant Pot - even the rice! If you love the flavors in orange chicken, you'll also enjoy my Slow Cooker Orange Chicken and Chicken Lettuce Wraps with orange sauce. For more best Instant Pot recipes, try my Instant Pot Spaghetti.
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