Steps to Make Ultimate Slow Cooker Orange Chicken

Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, slow cooker orange chicken. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

This slow cooker orange chicken is breaded chunks of chicken tossed in a sweet and savory Asian sauce and cooked in the crock pot. This slow cooker orange chicken tastes a lot like the fast food favorite, but it's made at home in your slow cooker with less oil. It's sure to become a family favorite! Despite its unnaturally bright-orange hue, orange chicken is a takeout dinner favorite.

Slow Cooker Orange Chicken is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Slow Cooker Orange Chicken is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have slow cooker orange chicken using 14 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Slow Cooker Orange Chicken:

1. Take 1.5-2 lbs Boneless, Skinless Chicken Thighs/Breasts
2. Get 1/4 Cup Cornstarch
3. Prepare 1 tbsp Curry Powder
4. Make ready 1/4 tsp Ground Red(Cayenne) Pepper
5. Take 2 tbsp Coconut Oil
6. Prepare 1-2 cups Peppers, chopped up
7. Take 1-2 cups chopped carrots
8. Take 1 cup Orange Marmalade
9. Get 2 tbsp Aminos Acid/Soy sauce
10. Make ready 1/4 Cup Rice Wine Vinegar
11. Take 1 tbsp Sesame Oil
12. Take 1 tsp Ground Ginger
13. Get 1-2 Cloves Garlic, minced
14. Prepare 1-2 Cup Broccoli, or more if you like

Great for Sunday meal prep for work lunch bowls & better than the local Chinese restaurant takeout! So many recipes call for chicken breast, but my DH prefers dark meat. So when I found this in Kraft Food and Family, I thought it would be perfect for him. This orange chicken cooks in the slow cooker for an easy weeknight dinner!

Steps to make Slow Cooker Orange Chicken:

1. Dice the chicken up into 1 inch pieces. Place the chicken into a medium bowl.
2. Add the corn starch, curry powder and cayenne pepper onto the chicken, then mix until evenly coated. Personally, I use my hands to mix it together.
3. Heat a large pan or wok over medium heat, coat with the coconut oil, then added the chicken. Heat each side for about 5 minutes, until the pink is gone. Place the chicken into the slow cooker, along with the carrots and peppers. Mix the peppers into the pot. Please use a slow cooker liner
4. In a small bowl, add the orange marmalade, aminos acid, rice wine vinegar, ground ginger, sesame oil, and minced garlic. Stir to mix. Pour onto the chicken in the slow cooker. Close the lid, set the temperature to low, and the timer to 2 hours.
5. After 2 hours, add the broccoli to the slow cooker. Stir it, then put the cover back onto the slow cooker. Once again, set the temperature to low and the timer to 30 minutes.
6. Enjoy!

So when I found this in Kraft Food and Family, I thought it would be perfect for him. This orange chicken cooks in the slow cooker for an easy weeknight dinner! It's a healthier version of take-out orange chicken and very easy to make. This is a really great dinner when you don't have a lot of time to cook - just put everything in the slow cooker and a few hours later dinner is ready. Plop the chicken pieces into your slow cooker.

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