Mom's Orange Curry Chicken

"I can remember deciding this was my favorite chicken when we lived in Florida -- when I was three or four! It's still my favorite. The curry gives the chicken a wonderful color and adds an exotic flavor to the sweet orange-honey-mustard sauce. I always serve with white rice. 6 WW pts per serving; rice is 3 pts for 3/4 cup."
 
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Ready In:
1hr 20mins
Ingredients:
7
Serves:
4
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ingredients

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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

  1. 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.
     
  2. 5 Stars, very tasty change of pace, although this is on the sweet side. It was very easy to put together, so I shall make this from time to time, then maybe I will figure out what orange cartwheels are supposed to look like. Made for Zaar Chef Alphabet Soup Game.
     
  3. 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!
     
  4. This is my new favorite chicken dish. The smell was outstanding, the flavor was even better. I served this with rice and ate myself sick finishing off the sauce poured over the rice. Thank you so much for this excellent recipe.
     
  5. 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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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.
 
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