Grammy's Kitchen · Orange Chicken · Easy Orange Chicken
One of 61 orange chicken recipes we measured
from www.budgetbytes.com
68 cooks on www.budgetbytes.com rate it 4.6★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 61.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| egg | 8% | 0% |
| liquid | 0% | 0% |
| aromatics | 49% | 1% |
| sweetener | 3% | 4% |
| fat | 4% | 0% |
Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 1 large orange ($0.70) | |
| 48 g | 3 Tbsp soy sauce ($0.15) |
| 20 g | 1 1/2 Tbsp brown sugar ($0.05) |
| 8 g | 1/2 Tbsp rice vinegar ($0.06 *) |
| 2 g | 1 tsp fresh ginger (grated, $0.10) |
| 3 g | 1 garlic clove (minced, $0.04) |
| 1 g | 1/4 tsp crushed red pepper flakes ($0.02) |
| 5 g | 1/2 Tbsp corn starch ($0.03) |
| 590 g | 4 chicken thighs (boneless, skinless, (about 1.3 lbs.) $4.64 **) |
| 50 g | 1 large egg ($0.67) |
| 19 g | 2 Tbsp corn starch ($0.12) |
| 1 pinch salt ($0.02) | |
| 2 g | 1 pinch black pepper (freshly cracked, $0.03) |
| 27 g | 2 Tbsp cooking oil ($0.08 ***) |
| 740 g | 4 cups cooked rice ($0.97) |
| 300 g | 2 green onions (sliced, $0.20) |
Method: 8 steps, published by www.budgetbytes.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“I made this for dinner last night, and it was so good I went out and got more chicken to make it again tonight! I realized I've never before had orange chicken where the flavor of orange was stronger than the flavor of sugar. I was making this for two peop” — a cook, 5.0★
“This recipe is a staple in our house, but tonight I decided to switch it up. I made the sauce as is but doubled it. I used ground chicken as it is what I had on hand. I used 3 pounds ground chicken, added 1.5 teaspoons of baking soda to help keep the chicken m” — a cook, 5.0★