Orange Chicken

Hey, let's be different this time and jump right into the recipe. Sound fun?

Ingredients:
3 boneless skinless chicken breasts
1/4 c corn starch
2 TBS flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
3 TBS olive oil
3 whole carrots

For the Sauce:
4 oranges
4 tsp soy sauce
2 tsp teriyaki sauce
1 tsp sesame oil
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp ground ginger
1/4 tsp red pepper

Cut your chicken into about 1 inch cube-like pieces (I say cube-like because last I checked chicken isn't square shaped, so it's not going to be perfect). Mix the corn starch, flour, salt and pepper in a medium (size 4[heh, inside joke]) bowl. Toss the chicken into said bowl and mix around until the chicken is well coated. Your hands are really the best tool for this, sorry cooking can be yucky, that's why we invented soap.

My coated chicken.

After the chicken is coated, you are going to want to cook it. Heat a pan to medium heat and add the olive oil followed by the chicken. Brown the chicken nicely, stirring occasionally.

My browned chicken.

Since I only told you to stir occasionally, you can make the sauce while the chicken is cooking. It is really simple. Just juice your oranges (I do it over a sieve so no pulp gets in my sauce), then add the rest of the ingredients under the "for the sauce" section. A whisk is a great tool for this task. Also, take those 3 carrots, peel them and slice into 1/2 inch pieces. Once you have the sauce mixed, the carrots cut, and the chicken nice and browned, add the sauce and carrots to the chicken and slightly reduce the heat of the pan. Get out the pan's lid (uh yeah make sure you use a pan that has a lid), cover and simmer the mix for about 10-15 min. You will want to stir it a few times during this process. If everything goes well, it should turn out a bit like this:

My chicken has a little bit of a kick that hits you at the end. If you want a more kid or heat intolerant friendly dish, simply leave the red pepper out. I like my orange chicken better than most restaurant ones, mostly because it doesn't have super thick breading that has obviously been fried. Daniel said "I don't really like orange chicken, but this good." That is encouraging, but Daniel is easy to please. He eats most everything...other than cherries.