Mandarin Orange Chicken Delight

"This is a light and easy chicken dish with a brightly-flavored sauce of Mandarin orange juice, lemon juice, soy sauce, and honey. The chicken is then served with the oranges and topped with slivered almonds and chow mein noodles on a bed of rice. The whole thing takes about 15 minutes to prepare and about 30 minutes to cook, so long as you defrosted the chicken ahead of time. Enjoy!"
 
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Ready In:
45mins
Ingredients:
13
Serves:
3-4
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ingredients

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directions

  • Make the sauce by combining reserved orange juice with honey, soy sauce, lemon juice,, and ginger in a small bowl.
  • Blend well and set aside.
  • Combine flour with salt and pepper in a shallow pie pan.
  • Set aside.
  • Trim off any fat and white veins from chicken breasts and slice each breast into about three strips.
  • Dry between double layers of paper towels.
  • Heat butter and oil in large skillet or wok over medium-high heat.
  • Coat all sides of chicken strips in seasoned flour and brown lightly in skillet.
  • Reserve browned pieces on a plate lined with paper towels.
  • When all chicken is browned, pour sauce into wok or skillet.
  • Place chicken in the sauce and turn to coat.
  • Reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer for 20 to 30 minutes, or until chicken is tender and white throughout and sauce begins to caramelize on the chicken.
  • Turn several times during cooking to coat evenly with sauce.
  • Meanwhile, prepare rice.
  • When chicken is done, remove from heat and quickly stir in the Mandarin oranges.
  • Sprinkle with your chosen garnish and serve over rice.

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Reviews

  1. The sauce was okay as a base but it was kind of flat on its own. I added pepper, garlic power, salt, and some of my homemade chili oil and it was better.
     
  2. Wowza! This was not what I expected at all. I was thinking it was an American dish and I turned up with an outstanding Asian dish! This recipe was SO good and wayyy better than expected. Tastes just like restaurant lemon chicken but with mandarins. I love it and thank you for this recipe.
     
  3. Thank you for sharing. So easy, so tasty, forgot the almonds at the end, but was loved by all :)
     
  4. I work a lot, and never cook for myself. If I do, it's something pre-prepared and all I need do is add meat, or heat in the microwave. So when I tell you that this recipe was so simple that even someone with a hectic life that simply has no cooking skills nor time can still prepare it and it tastes so delicious, it's like you bought it at a good Chinese restaurant!
     
  5. Two Socks....I prepared your dish recently,and enjoyed it...As some other reviewers mentioned the melding of the sauce tied together well.I think next time I may add some grated fresh ginger to bring it up a bit,I love the ginger flavour.I may also cut the chicken more in large cubes rather that the strips,as they had to be cut to eat anyway.Thanks for the addition to my keepers.....Don
     
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Tweaks

  1. Simple and delicious -- even my picky eater cleaned her plate. I used fresh ginger, only 1 pound of chicken, and replaced the butter with olive oil, but otherwise followed the recipe. This recipe is going into our regular dinner rotation, but I wouldn't hesitate to serve it to company too.
     

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I am a very-happily-married man and stay-at-home Dad to my beautiful 10-month-old girl (as of March, 2015). I also see to all the household chores and duties while my wife runs a small music therapy business. I love to cook and bake, and have a major love affair with chocolate and sweets in general. I love charcoal grilling and smoking, as well as baking bread, my cast iron skillet, and recently, I have rediscovered the slow cooker since my favorite food magazine, "Cooks' Illustrated" and the folks at "America's Test Kitchen, came out with their two "Slow Cooker Revolution" books. They are pretty much the only slow cooker recipes I trust to come out well every time. I enjoy making and perfecting the classics, but also like to create new recipes of my own now and then. We are also determined to grow some things in our garden despite the climate is very much against us here. The goal is a variety of herbs and easy-to-grow vegetables, as well as the most elusive of all - tomatoes. I consider m yself a very well-rounded cook in both my food preferrances and culinary abilities.
 
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