15-Minute Spicy Orange Chicken with Broccoli
Serves 4
5 mins prep
10 mins cook
15 mins total
The orange chili sauce is spicy, tangy, and sweet all in one!! The PERFECT sauce to jazz up chicken and broccoli! A FAST and EASY dinner with great Asian FLAVOR!!
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Orange Chili Sauce
Chicken and Broccoli
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<strong>Orange Chili Sauce</strong>:
To a small saucepan, add the orange juice, chili garlic sauce, soy sauce, brown sugar, sesame oil, pepper, and bring to a boil over medium-high heat; stir frequently. Allow mixture to boil for about 2 minutes.
To a small bowl, add the cornstarch, water, and stir to combine to make a slurry.
Add the slurry to the boiling mixture, and stir continuously for about 1 minute, or until the mixture thickens up some.
Remove pan from the heat, add the vinegar, stir to combine, and taste for seasoning balance. I prefer to add additional brown sugar but I like my sauces on the sweeter side. Set sauce aside off the heat.
<strong>Chicken and Broccoli</strong>:
To a large skillet, add the oil, chicken, season with salt and pepper, and cook over medium-high heat for about 5 minutes, or until chicken is 90% cooked through; stir and flip intermittently so the chicken cooks evenly.
Push chicken to one side of the skillet and add the broccoli to the other side (it looks like a ton but it shrinks in volume by nearly half), and season the broccoli with salt and pepper.
Add about half of the sauce, mostly over the chicken, and add a few tablespoons over the broccoli (you will not use all the sauce and will have some leftover), cover skillet, turn the heat to medium-low, and allow the broccoli to steam for about 3 to 5 minutes, or until as crisp-tender as desired.
Uncover skillet, and if desired, add more sauce to either the chicken or broccoli, and serve immediately.