Fast and Easy Orange Chicken {with Ground Chicken}
Servings: 6 servings (approx.)
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 lbs. ground chicken
- cooked rice, for serving
- green onions, chopped, for serving
Orange Chicken Sauce
- 2/3 cup white sugar
- 1/2 cup soy sauce *low sodium
- 1/4 cup COLD water
- 5 tbsp cornstarch *this will help the sauce thicken
- 4 tsps rice wine vinegar
- 4 tsps minced garlic *I use the bottled kind
- 3 tsp ground ginger
- 2 tsp cider vinegar
- 1/2 tsp dried red chili peppers *optional-add more or less to taste
- 1/4 tsp sesame seed oil
- 4 tsps orange juice, fresh squeezed
- orange zest from an orange
Instructions
- In a large skillet, over medium heat, cook your ground chicken until it is no longer pink.
- While your ground chicken is cooking, mix all of your sauce ingredients together and set aside.
- When your ground chicken is done cooking, pour your Orange Sauce over the ground chicken and mix well. The sauce should thicken as you stir it. Remove skillet from heat after it has thickened.
- Serve over rice and top wtih chopped green onions (optional).