 Today I'm making orange chicken and we're gonna be making it in the instant pot But if you don't have an instant pot, that's okay You can still do it. All you have to do is when I'm frying something in the instant pot or sautéing it You do it on the stove in a frying pan Everything else goes into a stock pot while I put everything in my instant pot I like making recipes as healthy as possible. So for example today We're gonna be using fresh oranges to make our orange chicken The recipe is easy to make delicious can be served with rice quinoa or brown rice or cauliflower rice So it covers pretty much everybody's flavors. I'm rockin robin and I'm gonna show you how to make it right after my chef joke Why are oranges the smartest fruit? Because they can concentrate Like to start off by prepping up some things first. So we're gonna start with our yellow onion I'm gonna do some horizontal cuts and then vertical cuts and what we want to do here is get a nice super fine dice Then run your knife through the onions one last time and you end up with a really fine dice Next we're gonna work on some ginger. We're gonna mince this So grab your ginger and the best way to peel it is to use the back of a spoon and it just scrapes the skin right off You're gonna need about an inch or so of that and then we'll take a microplane and we'll just microplane it And you'll need about a teaspoon of that Next we'll bring on the garlic. You got to have garlic in this All right, we're gonna press it through a garlic press here just like you would press the like button if you're enjoying this video We'll be using four cloves here and remember you can get the written recipe below the video in the description area So go click that and check it out Next up is chicken. Now. Hey, let me know in the comments what you pay for organic chicken Specifically thighs in your wherever you're at. I'm just curious Happen to be bone in and skin on I'm gonna season these up a bit with a little bit of salt and garlic powder At the instant pot I'm gonna add about a tablespoon of olive oil to the bottom of the pan And then we're going to hit the saute button and we're gonna saute this for, you know Just about three minutes per side. We want to get a nice little golden brown on that skin Now that the oil is hot. I'm gonna lay each piece skin side down Now you could use boneless skinless if you had it, but I happen to have the skin on so it works really well Because it keeps it from sticking Okay, it's been four minutes. So I'm gonna go ahead and flip these over and you can see they stuck a little bit But okay, we've got some nice golden brown chicken And we'll let these go another three to four minutes These are now seared. So I'm gonna take them out and set them in a dish to keep warm Now what we have left in the bottom of our instant pot is fond See that brown stuff. It's stuck to the bottom. Well, we're gonna release that and get it into our sauce Now those onions we minced we're gonna toss those right into the pot Now if you need to add a little more olive oil, go ahead. You don't want it to be too dry either So I'm gonna go ahead and saute these onions for about three to four minutes Scraping the bottom to pick up some of that nice fond We're waiting for the onions to saute and you want to stir them regularly We'll go ahead and juice our two oranges Oops, I almost forgot we need the zest from one of those oranges and it's always better and easier to zest before you juice Okay, here we are back to our instant pot I just tossed in the garlic for this and the ginger and we're gonna saute that for another minute Make sure you keep stirring so that it doesn't burn Now I'm adding the orange juice. We just squeezed but give it a little stir The orange zest I'm adding some chicken bone broth Now we're gonna add some tamari sauce, which is a gluten-free version of soy sauce You can use regular soy sauce if you like And we'll toss in some ketchup just a little bit Some rice wine vinegar Sesame oil now you want to use just a little bit of this. It's pretty darn powerful You use too much of this it can really overpower your dish Then we can add a little heat by adding some sriracha sauce and feel free to use more if you like it hot And we'll finish it off with some honey. This is where we get that little sweetness from Give this a really good stir because you want to make sure everything is well combined before you add the chicken Okay, here goes the chicken. We'll just set it right in there and just nestle it right into the sauce Place your lid on there make sure your vent is on the seal and we're gonna pressure cook this for six minutes Then we'll do a slow release for ten minutes It's time for chef jump number two. What did the orange say before jumping into the juicer? The zest is yet to come To garnish up our dish we're gonna need to chop up a little bit of green onion It'll add some nice color and a little bit of flavor When the chicken is done, we're gonna need to thicken up its sauce so what we're gonna do is take the chicken out of the pot that it makes it easier for us to stir and We're gonna add a mixture here of cornstarch and water You want to use cold water for this so it works well and then just stir it up until it's combined But for now, we're just gonna set it aside Okay, we've done our slow release of ten minutes and now I'm gonna take the lid off and take out the chicken Turn the instant pot back on to saute and then we are gonna add the cornstarch mixture Only pour in a little bit at a time as you whisk constantly to prevent lumps and only add enough Just to get it as thick as you want it I ended up using all that I made which was about two tablespoons. This is about the consistency that you want Let this boil for about one minute and we're ready to serve it up I have some leftover white rice and cauliflower rice and I'm gonna use that I like to use a combination a lot of times so that I can cut the carbs a bit So I'm just gonna combine the two here and I tell you I love it this way You get a nice texture from the rice and you get the nice flavor and the vegetables from the cauliflower Here comes our tender orange chicken. I'd like to add that right on the plate and top it with that sauce It's always about the sauce. This is great I had some leftover sauce and I also saved it and used it on other dishes like just you know Ground turkey cooked up and add some nice flavor to it and there we go We'll garnish it up with our green onions give it a little color and flavor and you are ready to eat This chicken is so tender. I'm telling you even if you cook it on the stove You'd have to cook it at least 30 minutes or so longer the better and it'll be so tender for you That sauce has a little bit of heat and that has that nice orange sweetness. You're gonna love this dish If you like instant pot recipes, you've got to try my Butternut squash stew here that is made with beef and it is Phenomenal and flavor check it out. Click the link on the screen. It'll take you right to the video Did you enjoy today's video? Let me know by smashing the like button and leave me a comment I always love to hear from you. All right, we'll see you back here next week for another delicious and healthy recipe