Recipe: Delicious Mandarin Onion Chicken

Mandarin Onion Chicken.

You can cook Mandarin Onion Chicken using 11 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Mandarin Onion Chicken

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

Mandarin Onion Chicken step by step

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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