These simply sautéed chicken breasts are simmered in an orange sauce that’s sweet, spicy, and tangy — it’s literally bursting with flavor. Orange marmalade creates the base of the sauce, then the layers of flavor just keep building, with sweet piquanté peppers, rice vinegar, sambal (a chili sauce for added heat), garlic, and ginger.
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4 servings
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Ingredients
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Instructions
Whisk together marmalade, piquanté peppers, pepper juice, tamari, vinegar, sambal, cornstarch, garlic, ginger, and sesame oil.
Heat peanut oil in a sauté pan over high until it shimmers; add chicken and sauté until golden, about 4 minutes per side.
Add marmalade mixture to pan; reduce heat to medium-low and simmer, covered, stirring sauce and flipping chicken occasionally, until a thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the breasts registers 165°, 10–12minutes. Serve chicken with sauce.
Tamari balances the sweet-and-sour flavors of the sauce by adding a rich, salty element.
Adding the sauce to the pan with the chicken and simmering allows the cornstarch to thicken the sauce.
As the chicken simmers in the sauce, flip it periodically to evenly coat it with spicy-sweet flavor.
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Nutritional Facts
Nutritional Facts
Per serving
Calories: 493
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 13g 20%
Saturated Fat 3g 15%
Cholesterol 145mg 48%
Sodium 591mg 24%
% Daily Value*
Carbs 42g 14%
Fiber 0g 0%
Protein 49g
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
