Mom's Orange Curry Chicken
photo by KateL
- Ready In:
- 1hr 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Serves:
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4
ingredients
- 2 1⁄2 - 3 lbs broiler-fryer chickens, cut in serving pieces
- curry powder (to coat chicken)
- salt
- 1⁄2 cup fresh orange juice
- 1⁄2 cup honey
- 1⁄4 cup Dijon mustard
- 2 oranges, peeled and sliced in half cartwheels
directions
- Heat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Rinse and remove skin from chicken pieces and dry thoroughly.
- Sprinkle chicken with curry powder to cover and a little salt on both sides and rub into meat.
- Arrange chicken in baking dish sprayed with cooking spray,"skin"-side down.
- Combine orange juice, honey and mustard in saucepan; simmer for 5 minutes.
- Pour over chicken and bake for 30 minutes.
- Turn chicken and continue baking another 20-30 minutes or until richly browned.
- (If sauce is reducing too much, add 1/2 cup water to pan and stir.) Remove chicken to heated serving dish (and/or cover with foil).
- Add orange cartwheels to sauce and heat on stove 1 minute, scraping bottom of pan.
- Pour sauce over chicken and serve.
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Reviews
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Wonderful combination of flavors for chicken. I did use the curry sparingly as my husband is not a big fan of it but just likes a hint of the curry. This is easy to prepare. I served it over rice. Wonderful meal. The next time I make this, I will double the sauce as it was so good. Thank you so much, Quantumgirl.
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Until I made a few changes, this recipe was way too sweet for my family's taste. I added more salt, 2-3 tsps. Balsamic vinegar, 1/4 tsp. cayenne pepper, 1/4 tsp. red curry powder, and the juice of 1/2 a lemon. Once I had the flavorings corrected, I thickened the sauce with a tablespoon of cornstarch dissolved in a bit of water. I poured it over the chicken, and my family loved it. This one's a keeper!
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Excellent chicken recipe! Sweet and tangy, tastes like a zippy honey mustard with fresh oranges. We loved this. I served it with some couscous. I had no idea how good this would smell while reducing and cooking - just like my favorite L'Occitane honey perfume! Thank you quantumgirl, I will make this again soon!!!!
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
quantumgirl
United States
I just (finally!) finished a Ph.D. in poetry-writing, literature, and rhetoric. Love: murder mysteries, travel, old cookbooks, NYT crossword puzzles, black and white movies, autumn leaves, quantum physics, old fiestaware, dinner parties, Belgian and Czech beer, any form of cheese (except fat-free!), a spot of fine whisky, being by myself in any foreign country.