Skinny Orange Chicken Recipe (2024)

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How do you make chicken super thin? ›

Cut the chicken breasts in half crosswise. On a sturdy cutting board, place a piece of chicken between 2 pieces of plastic wrap. Using a mallet or other blunt object, pound the chicken into a flat piece about 1/8-inch to 1/4-inch thick. Repeat with the remaining chicken.

The orange sauce is made from a mixture of the orange juice and zest, sugar, soy sauce, garlic, ginger and rice vinegar. This is bubbled up in the wok until slightly thickened. The chicken is then added back in, and tossed in the sauce until fully coated.

The Coating – To achieve the crispy coating synonyms with orange chicken, the chicken needs to be covered in a batter made of flour and deep fried. The flour often used is white wheat flour, a simple carbohydrate that adds more calories to your food but few nutrients.

Their Teriyaki Chicken is a great alternative for when you're craving that sweet and savory flavor you'd get from an Orange Chicken but want something with fewer calories and a lower sodium content.

Pound the chicken thin.

Pound with the flat side of a meat mallet, rolling pin, or small skillet to an even 1/4-inch thickness.

Worms and parasites that live in your chicken's digestive tract will reduce your chicken's appetite leading to weight loss. Parasites will also deplete your chicken from the nutrients they need to prevent them from becoming stressed. Worm your chickens regularly to prevent parasite-related weight loss.

To thicken the sauce, pour it into a small saucepan on the stove over medium-high heat. In a small bowl, combine 2 tablespoons cornstarch with 2 tablespoons water to make a cornstarch slurry. Once the sauce starts to bubble in the pan on the stovetop, add the cornstarch slurry and stir to combine.

Ingredients: dark meat chicken, water, sugar, distilled vinegar, modified food starch, corn starch, potato starch, contains less than 2% of: wheat, orange extract, caramel color, salt, garlic, phosphoric acid, rice wine, sesame oil. *The dish uses a proprietary batter and sauce.

In Chinese, this dish is known as "陳皮雞", literally "dried citrus peel chicken", referring to dried orange or tangerine peel. However, the taste and recipes of this dish differ due to cultural and geographical factors.

✗ Orange Chicken

In fact, it's one of the highest-calorie, highest-sugar options. (No wonder its sauce is so finger-licking sweet!) The version of this Chinese-American classic at Panda Express comes with 490 calories, 23g total fat, 5g saturated fat, 51g carbohydrate, 25g protein, and 820mg sodium.

Can diabetics eat Panda Express? ›

A healthier option from Panda Express includes the nutritious 'Mushroom Chicken' that has just 170 calories and 11 g of total carbs and just 1 teaspoon (4 g) of sugar. Another choice is their 'Black Pepper Chicken' that weighs in at 280 calories and 14 g of total carbs.

Orange chicken (1 cup) contains 60.8g total carbs, 59.6g net carbs, 11.2g fat, 29.2g protein, and 465 calories.

Panda Express The Original Orange Chicken (1 serving) contains 51g total carbs, 49g net carbs, 23g fat, 25g protein, and 490 calories.

Compared to General Tso's, orange chicken usually has a lighter-colored sweet, sour, savory glaze. It's not as spicy-hot because dried red chiles aren't as common or used as heavily in this dish. All recipes ask for orange in some form — juice, zest, dried peel, or a combination thereof.

Panda Express

However, Panda Express is one of the healthiest fast food chains because it has the 'Wok Smart' menu. The items on this menu have at least eight grams of protein and less than 300 calories, which makes it a good option if you're looking for something healthier on-the-go.

One technique is to start by slicing the chicken breast horizontally, parallel to the cutting board. This will give you two thin chicken fillets. You can then further slice these fillets into even thinner pieces as desired.