Here is my updated version of this yummy dish! I LOVE orange chicken at restaurant but they are full of sugar and don’t fit well in my Trim Healthy Mama lifestyle.
With this recipe I keep it in an E setting but it’s moist and full of flavor!
Picture time… it’s so pretty!
I started with cooking my brown rice. I made 4 cups of brown rice. Y’all should get a rice cooker if you don’t have one! It really does make life easy!! Mine was actually my grandmother’s and I think it is at least 25 years old! Still works like a charm!!
I juiced 4 LARGE oranges (strain the juice to make sure the seeds are out).
Add the sauce ingredients to the juice.
Cut up 2 big chicken breasts into bite sized pieces and place into a big pot. Chop and onion and 3 cloves of garlic. Add to the pot. Cook on medium heat until done. Once the chicken is cooked add the juice mixture to the chicken and allow to simmer for 30 minutes on low heat.
Add the cooked rice into the dish.
DONE! Now I LOVE LOVE mine with chopped green onions or chives on top! It’s light and a perfect E!
ENJOY!
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Orange Chicken
- Cook Time: 45
- Total Time: 45 minutes
Description
A great lite dish that’s full of flavor!
Ingredients
- 2 large chicken breast
- 4 LARGE Oranges juiced (strain to keep the seeds out)
- 4 cups of cooked brown rice
- 1 onion chopped
- 2 cloves of garlic chopped
- 3 tbsp. liquid Bragg’s aminos (to replace soy sauce)
- 1 tsp ginger (ground)
- 1 tsp garlic powder (ground)
- Salt and pepper to taste
- A dropper full of KAL Liquid Stevia (or your favorite sweetener to taste 1 to 2 tsps.)
Instructions
- Cut up the chicken into bite sized bits.
- Cook the rice.
- Cook chicken, onion and garlic in a big pot on medium heat.
- Juice 4 LARGE oranges and strain to remove seeds.
- Add the rest of the ingredients (not rice) to the juice of the oranges.
- Mix.
- Pour mixture over cooked chicken, garlic and onions.
- Turn heat to low and simmer for 20-30 minutes.
- Once rice is cooked add the rice to the chicken mixture and mix.
- If the mixture is too dry add a little chicken broth or water (mine was not dry because I used large oranges).
- *optional- add chopped green onions or chives to the top.
- Serve immediately.
- Enjoy!
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 4
Could I just leave out the orange juice in this?
I think you could but you would want to use more broth to make sure it’s not dry and add orange extract if you want that flavor. If not, then just the broth! 🙂
What do you mean by “2 cups fat free chicken broth 4 cups worth?”
This recipe looks so good–I am wanting to put it on my THM plan for the week, but that has me confused! 😀
I am not sure… lol! I took that off! I am in the process of updating this recipe. I made this again, easier and better tasting. I cooked chicken in a big skillet, added chopped red bell peppers and onions and a little garlic. Cooked together. Added the juice of six squeezed oranges, 1 cup of chicken broth (or more if needed) salt, a little ginger and a touch of liquid stevia. Made a pot of brown rice like the recipes says. Added about 3 or 4 cups of cooked brown rice, then a couple of tablespoons of liquid aminos to the skillet and mixed together well. Then added chopped green onions on top. LOVED LOVED this way better! And so much easier! Hope this helps some!
This would be fabulous in the crock pot with quiona! Thanks!
Great idea!!
I have 2 quick questions: 1) Have you posted the updated version that you talked about? 2) What is the approximate volume of the juice of 4 large oranges? Thanks!
Yes, I did! 🙂 Hmm, I’m not exactly sure of the volume of the four juiced oranges… 🙂
Oh, dear. I was REALLY hoping for an answer to this! I want to double the recipe. I just juiced 5 or 6 oranges, and I have almost three cups of juice. Since I just googled and found the info that one orange yields about 2 oz. juice, I am quite confused. I did go ahead and put the pulp in–thought that would add more flavor–but now I have no idea whether I have enough juice or not. :/
You know… I think instead of adding more juice, if you have an GOOD QUALITY ORANGE ESSENTIAL OIL you could add several drops or even use an ORANGE FLAVOR EXTRACT that way you don’t have to juice any more. You could also just zest several of the oranges!! I hope this helps!!
This looks really good!
On the menu for next week! Delicious!
Oh my Sarah, this is SOOOO good. My oranges must have been super juicy because the sauce was a little thin. I just sprinkled a little “Gluccie” in at the last minute and it was fine. Thanks for all you do!
Yay, I am so happy to hear this! Sounds like you made the right choice by putting gluccie in it too!!
For us drive thru sues, can we just use orange juice from a bottle?
No, it’s better to get as much of the orange in as possible.
Thanks for sharing! Looking for meals I can freeze for busy weeknights Shall I cook the chicken and sauce then freeze or would it be better to freeze the chicken raw with the sauce? Thanks.
No I think you could cook the chicken and save it with the sauce (frozen). I haven’t done it so let me know if you try it!
Do you think this would work in an Instant Pot? With uncooked rice and all the ingredients added and let it go?
I actually think it would!!