Orange Chicken

Name: Orange Chicken
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 4 chicken thighs (skin on); 2 onions; Salt and pepper; 2 tsp Paprika powder; 2 tsp Dried thyme; Plain flour; 100 ml orange juice; 1 tbsp grated ginger; 1 tbsp sugar; 1.5 tbsp soy sauce

Lisa @lisagc

Bristol, UK

My dad's favourite meal that he always asks my mum to make for anniversaries and birthdays. I learnt the recipe from my mum. Usually served with cous cous or potatoes, and some green vegetable or salad.

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Ingredients

4chicken thighs (skin on)
2onions
Salt and pepper
2 tspPaprika powder
2 tspDried thyme
Plain flour
Sauce
100 mlorange juice
1 tbspgrated ginger
1 tbspsugar
1.5 tbspsoy sauce

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Steps

1

Slice the onions into 1cm width rings
2

Stab the chicken skin in multiple places with a fork
3

Rub the salt, pepper, paprika and thyme into the chicken
4

Just before frying, cover the chicken in a light layer of plain flour
5

Fry the chicken skin side down first in a frying pan
6

Once the skin is crispy, take the chicken out of the pan
7

Layer the onions into the frying pan, then return the chicken to the pan on top, skin side up this time
8

Add the sauce ingredients to the pan and simmer with the lid on until the onions are soft and the chicken is cooked through
9

Optional: add some green vegetable like tenderstem broccoli in the final 5 minutes of cooking