Orange Chicken

Orange chicken is a great and healthy meal, very easy to make and is a crowd pleaser!

It does take some time to prep for, and unlike the meal you order from your favorite Chinese restaurant this isn’t deep fried so tends to be a lot healthier, and yeah it packs a punch and tastes amazing!

For the chicken you can go with a whole chicken, chicken breasts or chicken thighs, any would be a great choice!

Phase 1 Broccoli

Cut your broccoli to just heads and cut it down to the size that you want it to be. take a frying pan and put some water in it, enough to cover your broccoli and start to simmer it until the broccoli is nice and soft then drain it and rinse in cold water so that it stops cooking put it into another container with cold water and set aside.

Phase 2 Chicken

Cut your chicken to small bites, pepper it, (if you want salt use that, but we recommend you use Lo-Salt or a low sodium alternative.) and put in corn starch mix together well, in a frying pan with some extra virgin olive oil fry the chicken up until fully cooked then drain your broccoli again and cook it a bit more with the chicken and then set aside.

Phase 3 Orange Sauce

Ingredients

  1. 2 cups of orange juice
  2. 2 table spoons of corn starch
  3. 3 cloves of garlic
  4. 2 table spoons of ginger
  5. A splash of rice wine vinegar
  6. Some honey to taste
  7. Some soya sauce (We like sweet soya sauce)
  8. The orange rind from 1 orange

In a pot on a burner set to medium high add each ingredient one by by one stirring after adding aside from the orange rind, do not add that yet but take your time and stir each ingredient in so that its incorporated once done, cook down for another 5 to 7 minutes until it reduces, then take it off of the heat.

Now mix in the orange rind and stir again, then pour it over your chicken and broccoli mix, now stir in the sauce with the rest of it, and your done, this is best served with cooked rice, you can go all fancy and make some stir fried rice if you wanted to as well!

We hope you like this and enjoy it, and some take aways, is that we don’t need salt (I don’t use any unless its a no or low sodium alternative, honest is a good replacement for sugar, its natural and better for you.

Rinse your rice, cook it and let it sit in the fridge over night for better results.

Chicken thighs offer more fat and better flavor, however chicken breasts are far more healthier, and some times you can get a whole chicken cheaper and would work better, you do have options, so take some time and think about it.

East Coast Donair

This is one of our earliest videos we filmed, it is quite old, and we will eventually be re making another video!

Donair is an Atlantic Canadian meal, one of our must haves and favorites, it isn’t the healthiest thing in the world, but you can make it healthier with a bit of work!

If you go to Canada and you order one, and the sauce isn’t sweet, then it’s not a donair, if you are in Atlantic Canada at any time you must try it, it is our cultural dish and honestly one of the best things you will ever eat!

When it comes to spices put a lot in, but for things like chili powder and Cheyenne powder, you want to watch yourself a bit don’t make it hotter than you want, some people can’t handle spice eh, I’m not one to measure spices out, just look at the volume of what your cooking and use your best judgement!

Ingredients

Meat Portion

  1. Extra Virgin Olive Oil
  2. Oregino
  3. Garlic powder
  4. Chili Powder
  5. Onion Powder
  6. Cheyenne Powder
  7. Medium ground beef or Lamb meat (you can do 50/50)
  1. Pre heat your oven for 450 degrees
  2. Oil a bread pan, or any pan you want to use.
  3. take the ingredients and mix them together and beat them together very well, you want a solid meat loaf.
  4. Put them in the bread pan, and pack it in tightly.
  5. bake for 45 to 50 minutes.

Sauce Portion

  1. 3/4 cup of vinegar
  2. 2 cups of sweetend condensed milk
  3. Garlic powder

Mix all the ingredients in a container that you can stick in the fridge, mix it well, and let it rest in the fridge for an hour!

Putting it all together!

  1. Tomato
  2. Onion
  3. Cheese (Cheddar or Mozzarella is best, but use what works for you!
  4. Pita bread
  5. (optional Lettuce)

Ok we are ready to put everything together, so first, after the meat has cooled down, we are going to slice it up good, and then re fry it with some extra virgin olive oil, just to get it nice and hot and may be a bit of sear.

This is how you want it to look, very similar to this, and often this can be hard so don’t judge yourself on how perfect you have your sliced.

Take a slice of pita, put your meat on it, then cover it with a lot of sauce, and then some onions tomato and finally shred some cheese on top of it.

You can choose to bake this on 300 for 10 minutes if you wish, I don’t myself, I eat it as is, you can add some lettuce, and if your looking to serve it with something might I suggest some potatoes, often we eat this along side of pizza, and it should look similar to.

I truly hope you enjoyed this as much as I do if you ever get a chance to taste this, it is truly one of our favorite meals, and often if we have a visitor we share this with them, its one of those meals you have to try once.

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