Made Orange Chicken for the first time ever; No recipe followed :D

Soy sauce, fuckton of sugar, fresh squeezed orange juice, 2 oranges worth of test, half an orange of slices, half a bulb of garlic, and some fresh ginger. And then diluted with some water.

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one_love_silvia@reddit (OP)

Might not be proper orange chicken, but it was chicken with a lot of orange taste and still quite tasty, so I'll call it a success 😂

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LukaIncic@reddit

i can clearly see you didn’t follow a recipe 😬

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one_love_silvia@reddit (OP)

Probably too much soy sauce... maybe a whole bottle was too much on hindsight.

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BozBozBoz09@reddit

And this soy sauce is for you, I can put it in your shoe

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The-Final-Reason@reddit

A whole bottle? Hope you keep your sight.

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one_love_silvia@reddit (OP)

Well fortunately it seems ill get about 10 servings worth, so perfect!

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JwPATX@reddit

Looks like the oil was just a little too hot.

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sir_moleo@reddit

A whole bottle for how much? Enough to feed like 100 people? If not, then yeah way too much.

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Richie_Zeppelin@reddit

Haha thought that was a toe. Good on you to cook!

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BunnyLady91@reddit

You know chicken is going to be flavorful when it looks like beef! Looks really good!

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one_love_silvia@reddit (OP)

😂😂😂 appreciate the positive reinforcement

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Lifemarr@reddit

Somehow it looks neither orange or chicken. Excellent, probably tastes great.

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one_love_silvia@reddit (OP)

It was quite tasty indeed! Orange chicken sauce is mostly soy sauce, so I assume Panda Express adds a fuckton of food coloring or something to theirs.

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CrimsonOOmpa@reddit

It's definitely not mostly soy sauce. It's mostly orange juice/zest. It uses a little bit of soy sauce. I think I understand your problem now lol.

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t001_t1m3@reddit

The only orange in Panda Express orange chicken is orange extract powder.

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CrimsonOOmpa@reddit

I didn't say anything about PE. I was talking about the actual recipe.

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Ted_The_Generic_Guy@reddit

PE *is* the actual recipe. they literally invented it from scratch lol

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CrimsonOOmpa@reddit

When you make orange chicken at home you're going to be using a lot of orange juice and zest. The original recipe used it as well, but now it's probably crap because all fast food is crap.

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Ted_The_Generic_Guy@reddit

do you have evidence the original recipe used it?

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CrimsonOOmpa@reddit

The evidence is called "looking it up."

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t001_t1m3@reddit

I looked it up and the trick is orange extract, no zest or juice

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CrimsonOOmpa@reddit

Cool. Now look up homemade versions like I was originally talking about.

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t001_t1m3@reddit

Yeah I sent a video saying those ones are dogshit and wrong

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t001_t1m3@reddit

https://youtu.be/2bkjhI0uN3A?si=h0WIdU8LVkSVcPEB

Most trustworthy video on the topic says orange extract and that orange chicken isn't Chinese

Mfw redditors talk out of their ass confidently

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The OG is Panda Express. It didn't exist before then. There is nothing in China remotely similar. You're probably conflating PE Orange Chicken with Chinese Takeout orange chicken that is a knockoff of the OG.

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CrimsonOOmpa@reddit

Ok

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one_love_silvia@reddit (OP)

Seems right 😂

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yseult-@reddit

it’s not mostly soy sauce. did you use orange juice or orange peel at all? sugar?

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one_love_silvia@reddit (OP)

No orange juice aside from what i squeezed from an orange. Two oranges worth of test, plus maybe half an orange worth of orange peel. Reddit said if i put too much orange juice in, itll be too thin lol. I generally just look up base ingredients when i cook things and then wing it.

Accurate? Probably not.

Tasty? Usually. Lol

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yseult-@reddit

you would make a cornstarch slurry with something like this to get it to thicken up and stick to the chicken. that’s kind of the standard technique for any of these tossed American Chinese dishes

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one_love_silvia@reddit (OP)

I dont own corn starch T-T

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keoghberry@reddit

It's a staple if you wanna make Asian adjacent sauces like orange chicken!

This is my go to Orange chicken recipe if you want to try: https://dinnerthendessert.com/panda-express-orange-chicken-copycat/

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one_love_silvia@reddit (OP)

Saved, thanks!

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secretgaythoughts@reddit

Yum. I’d eat yours. Looks spicy and crispy

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one_love_silvia@reddit (OP)

Definitely crispy! Sadly no spice, there's a canyon between what my mouth and my stomach can handle spice-wise and i didnt wanna risk it haha

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JemmaMimic@reddit

Tasty is everything, you can always close your eyes so you can't see it. Good job anyway!

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one_love_silvia@reddit (OP)

Thanks haha

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txsnowman17@reddit

Tang is the secret for color and flavor.

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sir_moleo@reddit

No idea where you would get this idea. It has at most a few tablespoons of soy sauce per batch. It's almost entirely sugar.

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one_love_silvia@reddit (OP)

I figured if you're not supposed to use a ton of orange juice, thats the only other liquid used in it lol... fortunately it tastes good. I'll have to give it another go. Maybe I'll just get some orange juice and dilute what i have lmao

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sir_moleo@reddit

Orange oil (or juice/zest), sugar, corn starch, a few dashes of soy sauce/rice vinegar/sesame oil.

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one_love_silvia@reddit (OP)

Ill have to give it another shot!

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sir_moleo@reddit

I believe in you. Also, might wanna get your blood pressure checked after eating this. 😅

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one_love_silvia@reddit (OP)

Lmao

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poontangpooter@reddit

Oranges....are added to orange chicken....

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one_love_silvia@reddit (OP)

Yea it has orange in it

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BlackMagick23@reddit

Bro thought orange chicken was called that only because of the color and not the fruit 🥀

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Lifemarr@reddit

As a white trash american, i need my orange chicken to look like oranges and chickens were genetically crossed into one another in order to want to eat it.

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Fomulouscrunch@reddit

I'm only trash on the weekends and alternate Wednesday evenings, but yeah. You seem like someone who might be here, psychically speaking: ever had really crappy strawberry beef?

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one_love_silvia@reddit (OP)

😂😂😂

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ChefAsstastic@reddit

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DrZoidberg117@reddit

I made orange chicken as well and when I poured the slurry mixture into the wok, it made the sauce all gelatinous and clumpy and I had to wash off the chicken and restart. Learned I had to pour it in gradually at a lower temperature and with a ratio of 2 tbsp of water to 2-3tsp corn starch.

So keep that in mind in case that happens to u lol

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Mr-Bry-Guy@reddit

How was it though?

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one_love_silvia@reddit (OP)

Yummy!

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Mr-Bry-Guy@reddit

Hell yea! 👌🏾 10/10!

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h0rchatapapi@reddit

Oh neat! Mongolian beef

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one_love_silvia@reddit (OP)

Its probably pretty close to that, just with orange added lmao

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h0rchatapapi@reddit

Was it good?

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one_love_silvia@reddit (OP)

Yup!

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wehttamman@reddit

I can tell

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Shade-RF-@reddit

Huh. Kinda looks like beef and broccoli or pepper steak.

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altofanaltthatisalt@reddit

Is the orange already digested? ‘Cause all I see is the brown.

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yseult-@reddit

how much chicken did you prepare??? this would be incredibly salty unless a huge portion was made & I can’t tell if you’re joking lol

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one_love_silvia@reddit (OP)

4 pieces of large chicken strips. And yea, i have a good amount left over. So far including the night me and my buddy ate it, Ive gotten 6 or 7 plates outta the sauce and still have enough for probably another 4-5. I add the sauce on after so it can be properly proportioned lol.

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