Sesame-Orange Chicken

Name: Sesame-Orange Chicken
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 237 milliliters breadcrumbs; 2 Tbsps butter, melted; 1 teaspoons Kosher salt; 1 navel orange; 118 milliliters orange marmalade; 1 Tbsp grapeseed oil or peanut oil; 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes; 1 teaspoon Asian sesame oil; 118 milliliters sesame seeds; 680 grams small boneless, skinless chicken breast halves each); 2 Tbsps soy sauce

Sesame-Orange Chicken might be just the main course you are searching for. This recipe serves 4. One portion of this dish contains roughly 45g of protein, 25g of fat, and a total of 620 calories. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 45 minutes. Head to the store and pick up peanut oil, navel orange, soy sauce, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the peanut oil you could follow this main course with the Salted Peanut Toffee Cookies as a dessert.

Instructions

Heat a small skillet on medium high heat.

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Frying Pan

Add the sesame seeds. Toast sesame seeds until fragrant and lightly browned. Do not turn your back on the seeds while cooking, they can easily and quickly burn. Stir often to keep them from burning. You may hear them pop, and some of them may hop out of the pan while cooking. When lightly browned remove from heat and set aside.2

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Sesame Seeds

Seeds

Toast

Pop

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Frying Pan

Mix melted butter in with the bread crumbs.

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Breadcrumbs

Butter

Heat a large skillet on a medium high, add the bread crumbs, stir often until the bread crumbs get toasty brown.

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Breadcrumbs

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Frying Pan

Remove from heat, let cool. 3

Heat the oven to 400°F. Line a roasting pan with foil. Put a flat baking rack on the lined roasting pan.4 Use a meat pounder to lightly pound the chicken breasts between two pieces of wax paper to even out the thickness of the breasts.5 Use a microplane grater to grate the zest from the orange.

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Chicken Breast

Orange

Meat

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Microplane

Meat Tenderizer

Roasting Pan

Wax Paper

Aluminum Foil

Oven

Place the zest in a large bowl.

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Bowl

Cut 4 thin round slices from the center of the orange to use with this recipe. Save the rest of the orange for snacking.6

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Orange

Add to the large bowl with the zest, the marmalade, soy sauce, sesame oil, peanut oil, red pepper flakes and salt.

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Red Pepper Flakes

Peanut Oil

Sesame Oil

Marmalade

Soy Sauce

Salt

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Bowl

Mix well.

Add the chicken to the sauce, coating every piece. You can at this point make ahead by 24 hours and let the chicken marinate, or you can go ahead with the recipe. 7 In a large, shallow dish, mix together the toasted sesame seeds and bread crumbs. Working with the chicken one piece at a time, dredge the chicken in the coating, pressing down on the crumbs to make sure they adhere well.

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Breadcrumbs

Sesame Seeds

Whole Chicken

Sauce

Transfer to the backing rack on the lined roasting pan. Dip the orange slices in the leftover marmalade mix and set on the rack.8 Cook at 400°F until the chicken has an internal temperature of 160°F, about 20 minutes.

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Orange Slices