Sunday, November 27, 2022

Orange Chicken

Ingredients

For the chicken

  • 1 chicken breast
  • 3 cloves of garlic
  • 1/4 cup orange juice
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp black pepper
  • 3 tbsps rice flour
  • 1 tbsp corn starch
  • 1 tbsp flour
  • 1/3 cup water
  • Oil for frying

For the sauce

  • 2 tbsps brown sugar
  • 2 tbsps soy sauce
  • 3 tbsps vinegar
  • 1/2 cup orange juice
  • 1 dessertspoon honey
  • Chili pepper powder
  • Ginger powder
  • 1 tbsp starch
  • 1.5 tbsp water

Preparation


Cut chickens into small pieces, put them into a bowl and add minced garlic, orange juice, salt and pepper and keep it in the fridge about 30 minutes. 
Meanwhile mix flours, corn starch and water in a bowl and add chickens into the bowl.




Mix all the sauce ingredients except starch and water in a bowl. 
Mix starch and water in a seperate bowl.
Fry chickens two times to make them more crispy.The second time should be shorter.











Cook sauce in a pan. When it starts to boil add starch slowly and continue cooking until it thickens. Lastly add fried chickens into it and serve with sesame seeds and rice. Enjoy!



Saturday, November 12, 2022

Kung Pao Chicken

Ingredients

For the chicken

  • 1 lb chicken breast
  • 1 tablespoon wine
  • 2 tablespoons soy sauce
  • 2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon corn starch




For the Sauce

  • 1 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
  • 1 cup chicken stock
  • 5 tablespoons soy sauce
  • 2 tablespoons brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon constarch

For cooking

  • Oil
  • 5-6 cloves garlic
  • 5-6 green onions
  • 1 red pepper
  • 1 green pepper
  • 2-3 celery sticks
  • 1/2 cup roasted cashews
  • 1 tsp ginger (fresh or dried)
  • salt

Preparation


Cut chicken breast into cubes and marinate in wine, soy sauce, baking soda and corn starch. Cover and keep in the refregirator about 15 minutes.

In the meantime prepare the sauce with all the ingredients











Chop celery, peppers and onions. In a wok or frying pan stirfry all the vegetables about 5 minutes and take them into a bowl.


    Add some more oil to the wok and stirfry chickens in parts couple of minutes. Take all the chicken from the wok, add more oil and stirfty crushed garlic, ginger and add all the chicken and cook another 30 seconds. Add vegetables and sauce to the wok and cook until the sauce is thickened. Enjoy!