Receta Chicken with the tangy taste of orange? Not kidding…!!
It’s the COVID 19 period and a tough time. Cities are
experiencing lockdown and movement restrictions. Kenya, like any other country experiences
commuting restriction and limited movement.
All restaurants closed down, business area closed down, inter-city
movement banned and especially no movement after 7 pm. Looks like life has come
to a standstill. We are buying groceries and paying the vendors, who are door delivering. Thanks to this service. I brought a lot of oranges, as
per the direction of some health experts. But, of course my kids were tired of
eating them.
One fine Sunday
morning I thought, let’s make something different with these oranges instead of
the boring way of eating them raw. Thank
God, we are privileged to the exposure of quick recipes, e- books and websites
which I researched and came to a conclusion to satisfy our taste buds. The
result was that I cooked ‘Orange chicken’, a never before dish which delivered
justice to our taste buds as well as essential Vitamin C. Let me share the
recipe with you my friends.
Tantalizing Orange chicken, a difference to the traditional one.
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Cooking -time: 20 minutes
Ingredients (for 3-4 persons):
1.
½ inch ginger sliced
2.
4 cloves of garlic sliced
3.
2 medium sized onion chopped to small
pieces
4.
2 medium sized green capsicum chopped
to small pieces
5.
Juice squeezed from 5 medium sized
fresh oranges
6.
2 table spoon lime juice
7.
1 table spoon balsamic vinegar
8.
800 gms chicken sliced to medium
pieces ( you can even prefer boneless variety)
9.
1 egg battered
10. 1
table spoon white flour made to a paste
11. 1
teaspoon ginger garlic paste
12. Red
chillies sliced into pieces / red chilli flakes 1 ½ tablespoon
13. Chopped
cilantro for garnishing
14. Salt
15. 2
tablespoons of tomato puree 16. Orange
food colour
17. Oil
to fry
18. 1
teaspoon of butter
19. 1
teaspoon of corn flour made to a paste
Preparation: Prepare the chicken
1.
Take the chicken pieces, marinate
them with ginger-garlic paste, salt, and balsamic vinegar, egg and white flour
paste. Keep them marinated for 30
minutes.
Fry
the vegetable 2.
Take a frying pan and add oil to it.
Release the onion and capsicum to it, sauté for some time till it changes
colour. Set aside. Fry the
chicken 3.
Add butter to the skillet and the
release the marinated chicken. Fry till
the chicken becomes partly crispy. Remove them and keep aside.
Prepare the sauce 4.
Now it’s time to prepare the sauce.
Add oil in a skillet and after it heats up release the chopped ginger garlic,
chilli flakes and toss for some time. Then take the mixture of orange juice, lime
juice and tomato sauce and cook till they become a thick sauce. You can apply
food colour so as to darken the colour and make it luscious. Add the corn flour
paste to thicken the sauce. How to serve? 5.
Now take a serving bowl and place the
fried veggies to it. This layer id that of the onion, capsicum.
6.
Then place the chicken carefully.
7.
Now ladle the sauce over it carefully
along the sides and see that the chicken completely covers up.
8.
Garnish with chopped cilantro and
sliced oranges along the sides. The dish goes
very well with steaming rice or tortilla bread.
Just an exceptional attempt from the traditional chicken. Definitely,
the flavour of orange and chicken is tantalizing and some- thing different.