Orange Chicken - Instant Pot
Orange Chicken - Instant Pot

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Took the advice of a review and cut up chicken into bite size pieces and trimmed off fat. This fast and easy Instant Pot orange chicken is a lifesaver on a busy day. Bright and fresh orange flavors are combined with Asian flavors to make this perennial take-out favorite at home.

Orange Chicken - Instant Pot is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Orange Chicken - Instant Pot is something that I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook orange chicken - instant pot using 24 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Orange Chicken - Instant Pot:
  1. Get 2 lbs chicken breast cut into 1-2 inch pieces
  2. Make ready 2 Tbsp oil
  3. Make ready 1/4 c orange juice
  4. Make ready 1/3 White or yellow onion chopped large
  5. Make ready sauce
  6. Prepare 3/4 c orange juice
  7. Prepare 1 tbps hot sauce or taco sauce
  8. Get 1 tbps white wine
  9. Make ready 1/3-1/2 c tomato sauce
  10. Get 1/4 c soy sauce
  11. Get 1 tbsp curry and ginger powder mixed as you see fit
  12. Take 1/4 c sugar
  13. Prepare 1/4 c brown sugar
  14. Get Orange zest
  15. Make ready thickener
  16. Get 2-3 tbsp cornstarch
  17. Get 2 Tbsp orange juice
  18. Get garnish
  19. Get 1/2 c cashews
  20. Get Green onion - chopped
  21. Make ready Orange zest
  22. Get rice
  23. Make ready Make some white rice or brown rice or a rice packet
  24. Prepare Enough rice to be happy

And it's made fast and easy in your Instant Pot. Related: SLOW COOKER orange chicken recipe. This Orange Chicken is great served over steamed rice or with cauliflower rice. How To Make Orange Chicken In The Instant Pot?

Instructions to make Orange Chicken - Instant Pot:
  1. Dry chicken breasts with paper towels, make them dry. Don't skip this. Chop chicken into 1-2in chunks.
  2. 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.
  3. Add the 1/4c orange juice and deglaze the pot with a wooden spoon. When done, cancel the instant pot.
  4. Add the sauce ingredients to sauteed chicken. Add everything under sauce section and stir until combined and over all chicken pieces.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Turn off instant pot. Let sit for 5-7 minutes.
  8. Spoon over there rice and add green onion and zest as final garnish when serving. Enjoy it inside your face.

Make the sauce: Place orange juice, sugar, honey, soy sauce, vinegar, Chinese wine, garlic, sesame oil, ginger, cayenne pepper, and orange zest in a medium bowl and whisk to combine. Place the cornstarch, salt, and pepper together in a gallon-sized zip-top bag. Pour the sugars, rice wine, soy sauce, sesame oil, fresh ginger root, garlic cloves, pepper flakes, and orange zest into the Instant Pot. Serve over cooked rice garnished with green onions and sesame seeds. Barbara - Your Orange Chicken is one of my husband's favorite Instant Pot recipes from your website.

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