Low Fat Baked Crispy Orange Hoisin Chicken. This reduced fat version of orange hoisin chicken certainly does not fall short on flavour.
In another of our baked and not fried Chinese meal options, this delicious hoisin chicken takes mere minutes to bake to a crispy golden brown in a hot oven. It’s then tossed in a delicious and easy to make orange hoisin sauce.
It is important to heat the pan in the oven first to make sure the chicken gets crispy in the short cooking time. This recipe is terrific served over Chinese noodles or rice for a delicious meal in 30 minutes.
Hey, it takes the delivery guy longer than that to make it to your front door.
NOTE: I like to debone my own chicken breasts so that I can roast the bones and skins for stock later. I freeze them until I have enough to cover a baking sheet then use the instructions in my post on making Chicken Stock here.
If you like this crispy chicken recipe, you’re sure to love our incredibly popular Double Crunch Honey Garlic Chicken Breasts!
Originally published Feb, 2013.
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Low Fat Baked Crispy Orange Hoisin Chicken
A brilliantly simple & delicious hoisin chicken recipe that's baked, not fried with a slightly sweet and spicy orange hoisin sauce. Great with rice noodles.
Ingredients
- 4 large boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut in thick strips (about 4 or 5 per breast)
- 1 egg, + 2 tbsp water whisked together to make an egg wash
- 1 cup flour
- ½ tsp black pepper
- ¼ tsp cayenne pepper
- 1 tbsp ground ginger
- 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1 tsp salt
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
For the sauce
- 3 tbsp peanut oil
- 2 cups orange juice
- 1/2 cup Hoisin sauce
- 4 tbsp rice wine or Chinese cooking wine
- 3 tbsp rice wine vinegar, (or apple cider vinegar in a pinch)
- 6 tbsp brown sugar
- 2 tsp chili paste, (optional or to taste or use chili flakes to taste)
- 4 tsp soya sauce
- 2 tsp toasted sesame oil
- 2 tsp corn starch
- 1/4 cup cold water
- 1 diced red pepper
- 1 cup button mushrooms, sliced (optional)
- 1 cup snow peas, steamed
Instructions
- Preheat a baking pan in a 425 degree F oven.
- Combine the flour, pepper, cayenne pepper, ground ginger, nutmeg and salt.
- Dip the chicken pieces in the flour mixture, then in the egg wash then dredge them again in the flour mixture.
- Place on a lightly oiled baking sheet and lightly drizzle or the tops with a little more peanut oil.
- Bake at 425 degrees F for about 20 minutes. Flip the pieces at half way through the cooking time.
- While the chicken is baking, prepare your sauce.
- Heat peanut oil in a wok over med-high heat.
- Quickly add the garlic and stir fry for only about a minute.
- Add the orange juice and simmer to reduce the volume by half.
- Add the Hoisin sauce, cooking wine, vinegar, brown sugar, chili paste, soy sauce and toasted sesame oil.
- Bring to a boil and thicken with a slurry of 2 tsp corn starch dissolved in 1/4 cup cold water.
- Toss in the baked chicken pieces, diced pepper, mushrooms and snow peas.
- Serve over steamed rice or noodles.
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Nutrition Information
Yield
6Serving Size
gAmount Per Serving Calories 558Total Fat 19gSaturated Fat 5gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 12gCholesterol 147mgSodium 536mgCarbohydrates 51gFiber 3gSugar 23gProtein 38g
The nutritional information provided is automatically calculated by third party software and is meant as a guideline only. Exact accuracy is not guaranteed. For recipes where all ingredients may not be used entirely, such as those with coatings on meats, or with sauces or dressings for example, calorie & nutritional values per serving will likely be somewhat lower than indicated.
Elaine
Wednesday 14th of September 2016
Tried this recipe today and whilst I adjusted the quantities of the ingredients a little (much less sugar, less hoisin so that it was less salty and sweet) and added toasted sesame seeds on top, I have to say that the orange sauce is absolutely yummy. The baked chicken was a little floury for our liking so perhaps there isn't a need for the first layer of the flour? All in all, a good recipe although some tweaking is needed. Thank you for sharing!
Beth S
Tuesday 25th of June 2013
Is soya sauce the same thing as soy sauce?
Peggy G.
Monday 25th of February 2013
This sounds so good!
Barry C. Parsons
Wednesday 20th of February 2013
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The Daily Smash
Wednesday 20th of February 2013
You need to add a pin it button to your posts:) There are so many that I want to copy over to try but im unable to. This looks amazing.