Easiest Way to Make Super Quick Homemade Orange Chicken - Instant Pot
by Zachary Bowen
Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, orange chicken - instant pot. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook orange chicken - instant pot using 24 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Orange Chicken - Instant Pot:
Prepare 2 lbs chicken breast cut into 1-2 inch pieces
Get 2 Tbsp oil
Make ready 1/4 c orange juice
Make ready 1/3 White or yellow onion chopped large
Make ready sauce
Take 3/4 c orange juice
Get 1 tbps hot sauce or taco sauce
Take 1 tbps white wine
Prepare 1/3-1/2 c tomato sauce
Take 1/4 c soy sauce
Take 1 tbsp curry and ginger powder mixed as you see fit
Prepare 1/4 c sugar
Take 1/4 c brown sugar
Make ready Orange zest
Make ready thickener
Take 2-3 tbsp cornstarch
Take 2 Tbsp orange juice
Prepare garnish
Get 1/2 c cashews
Make ready Green onion - chopped
Take Orange zest
Prepare rice
Prepare Make some white rice or brown rice or a rice packet
Get Enough rice to be happy
Steps to make Orange Chicken - Instant Pot:
Dry chicken breasts with paper towels, make them dry. Don't skip this. Chop chicken into 1-2in chunks.
Turn instant pot to saute on high (more). When it is at Hot, add the oil, chopped onion and chopped chicken. Stir constantly until chicken is just browned on all sides.
Add the 1/4c orange juice and deglaze the pot with a wooden spoon. When done, cancel the instant pot.
Add the sauce ingredients to sauteed chicken. Add everything under sauce section and stir until combined and over all chicken pieces.
Manual pressure cook for 6 minutes. Natural release 10-12 minutes. While your waiting, make the thickener… Mix the cornstarch and orange juice until all clumps are gone. More cornstarch equals thicker sauce.
Release the pressure and turn back on saute mode (low or normal now). Add the cashews from garnish section. Slowly mix in thickener slurry and stir while cooking for 2-3 minutes until sauce is thick.
Turn off instant pot. Let sit for 5-7 minutes.
Spoon over there rice and add green onion and zest as final garnish when serving. Enjoy it inside your face.
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