Chinese Orange Chicken - Lightened Up

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1/3 cup orange juice
• 1/2 cup rice wine vinegar (must be rice wine and not regular vinegar)
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 2 1/2 tablespoons soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon orange zest or 1 tablespoon lemon zest
• 1/2 tablespoon toasted sesame oil
• 2 teaspoons cornstarch
• 1 tablespoon red pepper flakes (more or less depending on your preference for heat)
• 1 lb boneless skinless chicken breast, cut into bite size pieces
• 4 tablespoons flour
• salt and pepper
• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil or 1 tablespoon canola oil

Recipe

• 1 stir cornstarch into orange juice until all lumps are gone.
• 2 combine orange juice mixture, sugar, soy sauce, zest, 1/2 tsp sesame oil, and red pepper flakes in a small saucepan over medium heat. bring to a boil and cook until sauce thickens and coats the back of a spoon (about 5 minutes). if the sauce fails to thicken, mix some more cornstarch with water and add it to the mixture.
• 3 add flour, salt, and pepper to a medium ziplock bag.
• 4 add chicken and toss until chicken is completely coated.
• 5 heat oil over medium high heat in a large skillet. add chicken pieces. cook for 3 minutes until browned on one side, then turn over and cook for approximately 3 minutes on the other side until cooked through.
• 6 pour sauce over chicken.
• 7 to serve, toss with broccoli and serve over pasta or rice.