Recipe of Award-winning Mandarin Onion Chicken

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, mandarin onion chicken. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Mandarin Onion Chicken is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Mandarin Onion Chicken is something which I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook mandarin onion chicken using 11 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Mandarin Onion Chicken:

1. Make ready 4 chicken thighs (or your chicken of preference)
2. Prepare 2 Tbsp low sodium soy sauce
3. Prepare 1 Tbsp lime juice
4. Prepare 1 medium onion
5. Make ready Olive oil
6. Make ready 1 can (11 oz.) mandarin oranges drained
7. Take 1/4 tsp onion powder
8. Prepare 1/4 tsp garlic powder
9. Make ready 1/4 tsp black pepper
10. Take 1/2 tsp paprika
11. Take 2 cloves garlic minced

Instructions to make Mandarin Onion Chicken:

1. Put your chicken on a plate or in a bowl and cover with, soy sauce, lime jucie and dry spices. Let marinate for 10-20 minutes.
2. Mean while chop the onion, mince the garlic, open and drain the mandarin oranges.
3. Heat a pot large enough to hold your chicken on medium heat
4. When the pan is hot pour some olive oil in and swirl it around.
5. Add the chicken and marinating juices to the pot. On top add chopped onion, drained mandarin oranges, and minced garlic.
6. Cover and cook for 15 minutes on medium
7. After the 15 minutes, flip chicken and cook for 15 more minutes covered on the other side.
8. The mandarin sauce should have thickened and onions and oranges cooked down. Serve with rice or coconut rice (see recipe) and vegetables. Pour extra sauce over chicken and rice 😄
9. I always check my chicken by cutting open a piece, to see if it is cooked all the way..ya know, just in case. The 15 minutes on both sides covered did cook the chicken thighs all the way. 👍

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