Orange Chicken

The formula

Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 61.

	this recipe	typical
egg	0%	0%
liquid	0%	0%
salt	0%	0%
aromatics	0%	1%
sweetener	1%	4%
fat	0%	0%

Where it stands out

• #5 of 61 for greasiness

Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)

Ingredients

Weights computed by us.

90 g	90 g (3/4 cup) plain (all-purpose) flour
50 g	1 medium egg
2 g	1/4 tsp garlic salt
	pinch salt and pepper
	90 ml (1/3 cup + 1 tbsp) cold water
14400 g	8 chicken thigh fillets (skinless and boneless) (chopped into bite-size chunks)
16 g	2 tbsp cornflour (cornstarch)
	120 ml (1/2 cup) vegetable oil (for frying)
	juice of 2 large oranges
	zest of half an orange
75 g	6 tbsp caster sugar (or superfine sugar)
80 g	5 tbsp soy sauce
6 g	2 cloves of garlic (minced)
2 g	1 tsp minced ginger
5 g	1 tsp rice vinegar
8 g	1 tbsp cornflour (cornstarch) (mixed with 3 tbsp cold water to form a slurry, (optional))
	boiled rice
4 g	1 tsp sesame seeds

Method: 11 steps, published by www.kitchensanctuary.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.

“This an excellent recipe and turned out exactly like the picture. My wife proclaimed that it is better than Panda Express. We share a lot of our dinners with an elderly neighbor lady. She said the same thing. I used my Instant Pot in sauté mode so it took aw” — a cook, 5.0★

“This took 1 and half hours from start to finish. One of my kids said it was too much orange which i agree. Maybe my oranges were too big. I added in noodles as i have a child who can't eat rice. We ate it but was wondering if would be better also with light so” — a cook, 3.0★