Spicy Honey Orange Chicken Recipes

CHICKEN BREASTS WITH SPICY HONEY ORANGE GLAZE

Steps:

• Combine the honey, orange juice concentrate, orange zest, garlic, salt, and crushed red pepper flakes in a small bowl and mix well. Set aside. Season the chicken with salt as desired. Heat the butter and oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. When hot, add the chicken and cook for 4 minutes. Turn the chicken over and cook for 4-6 more minutes, or until it is cooked through (time will depend on thickness of the chicken breasts). Pour the reserved honey mixture over the chicken and cook for 2 minutes, turning to coat the chicken in the glaze several times. Place the chicken breasts on individual dinner plates and drizzle with the glaze. Serve immediately.

SPICY ORANGE CHICKEN

Steps:

• Whisk orange juice, brown sugar, rice vinegar, fish sauce, soy sauce, ginger, and crushed red pepper flakes in a large bowl.
• Mix in chicken pieces and toss to evenly coat. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and marinate in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
• Remove chicken from refrigerator and drain thoroughly in colander, reserving marinade.
• Heat a large non-stick skillet over high heat. Cook and stir chicken for 2 minutes; spoon out any excess liquid.
• Continue to cook and stir until chicken caramelizes, 6 to 7 minutes.
• Stir in white portions of green onions, garlic, and orange zest; cook and stir 2 to 3 minutes.
• Pour in half of reserved marinade. Simmer until reduced and thickened, 3 to 4 minutes.
• Stir in jalapeno pepper, bell pepper, and sugar snap peas; cook and stir until vegetables are warmed, about 2 minutes.
• Stir in green portions of green onions; cook and stir 1 minute.
• Remove from heat. Garnish with cilantro and serve.

CHICKEN BREASTS WITH SPICY HONEY ORANGE GLAZE

Steps:

• In small bowl, combine honey with juice concentrate, orange zest, garlic, salt and red pepper flakes.
• Rinse chicken with cold water and pat dry. Season lightly with salt.
• In large non-stick skillet, heat margarine and oil over medium-high heat. Add chicken and cook about 4 minutes, until seared.
• Turn chicken, cook another 4 minutes until just cooked through.
• Pour honey mixture over chicken and cook, turning chicken to coat as sauce begins to thicken, about 2 min.
• Serve chicken breasts with honey-orange glaze spooned over the top.

SPICY HONEY-ORANGE CHICKEN

Steps:

• In small bowl, combine honey with juice concentrate, orange zest, garlic, and the red pepper flakes. Set aside.
• Pound chicken to approximately 1/4 " thickness. Cut into bite size pieces.
• In a plastic bag mix together the flour, garlic powder, salt and pepper. Toss chicken pieces to lightly coat with flour mixture.
• In a large non-stick skillet, heat butter and oil over medium-high heat. Add chicken and stirfry until just cooked through.
• Pour honey mixture over chicken and cook, stirring to coat all chicken pieces with spicy honey-orange glaze. Sprinkle with parsley and green onion.
• Tip: As stated above, you can leave the chicken breasts whole. Pour the glaze over chicken that has been cooked through, turning chicken to coat as sauce begins to thicken, about 2 minutes. Serve chicken breasts with honey-orange glaze spooned over the top. Garnish with parsley and green onions.

SPICY ORANGE CHICKEN

Steps:

• Finely grate peel from one orange; place peel in a small bowl. Cut a thin slice from the top and bottom of each orange; stand oranges upright on a cutting board. With a knife, cut off peel and outer membrane from oranges. Working over the small bowl with orange peel to catch juices, cut along the membrane of each segment to remove fruit; set sectioned oranges aside. Stir cornstarch, broth, vinegar, honey, soy sauce, lemon juice, jalapeno and pepper flakes into orange juice and peel., Sprinkle chicken with salt and pepper. In a large skillet, heat 1 teaspoon oil over medium-high heat. Add half of the chicken; stir-fry 5-7 minutes or until no longer pink. Remove from pan. Repeat with remaining oil and chicken., Stir cornstarch mixture and add to pan. Bring to a boil; cook and stir 1-2 minutes or until sauce is thickened. Stir in reserved orange sections. Serve with rice. Sprinkle servings with sesame seeds and green onions.

SPICY HONEY ORANGE CHICKEN BREASTS

Steps:

• Season chicken with salt and pepper.
• Melt butter in pan, add chicken and garlic.
• Cook until chicken is 3/4 done.
• Remove chicken from pan and keep warm.
• Deglaze pan with wine, allow to reduce by one half.
• Add orange juice, zest, honey and red pepper flakes.
• Bring just to a boil.
• Return chicken breasts to pan and reduce heat to a high simmer.
• Continue cooking until chicken is done.
• Serve over rice or noodles.
• Garnish with chopped green onions.

SPICY HONEY ORANGE CHICKEN BREASTS WITH MUSHROOMS

Steps:

• Clean and dry chicken breasts. Pound them to an even thickness.
• Put flour on a plate. Sprinkle 1/2 the chili powder and no-salt lemon pepper on flour. Dredge the first chicken breast so that both sides are covered in flour and spice. Repeat process for the second chicken breast.
• Before you start the chicken, put the rice in the water and heat. When the water boils, cover and reduce heat to low simmer. Simmer for 20 minutes and then let stand until chicken is done.
• Heat garlic and olive oil in a pan at medium-high heat. Cook chicken breasts for about 3-4 minutes on each side - until they are about 1/2 cooked.
• Remove chicken from the pan and keep warm (I put them in the oven at 170 degrees).
• Deglaze the pan with the wine and reduce by half (for those of you who don't know what this means - as I didn't - it means pour the wine in the hot pan and let it simmer/ boil until only half of it is left and all of the chicken fat, etc. is dissolved into the wine).
• Add the orange juice, honey and red pepper flakes. Allow it to just boil.
• Place the chicken back in the pan and add the mushrooms. Cook at medium-low heat for about 10 - 12 minutes (until chicken is cooked through). Pour sauce over chicken occasionally.
• Serve over rice.

HONEY ORANGE CHICKEN

Steps:

• In a saucepan, combine the first nine ingredients. Bring to a boil. Remove from the heat; cool. Pour 1-1/3 cups marinade into a large resealable plastic bag; add chicken. Seal bag and turn to coat; refrigerate for 4-8 hours or overnight, turning occasionally. Cover and refrigerate remaining marinade., Drain chicken, discarding marinade. Grill, covered, over medium heat for 12-15 minutes on each side or until juices run clear. Meanwhile, combine cornstarch and water in a small saucepan until smooth; stir in reserved marinade. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. , Remove and discard skin from chicken. Serve chicken over rice; drizzle with sauce. Garnish with green onions, orange slices and parsley if desired.