Panda Express Spicy Orange Chicken | Copycat Recipe

okay folks listen we done all been to what I'll just say everybody done been to Panda or had some type of orange chicken or something like that but today I'm getting ready to do a copycat recipe right today we going to put a Twist on it we're going to do the copycat spicy orange chicken so let's get it okay so look you guys can see it's a few ingredients right don't trip the full ingredient list is on my website smoking and Grilling withth a.com and that's W tab.com okay so if you've been following me for minute you guys know that I like to even though I get all my ingredients and I pull them all it depends on what I'm making I like to group everything together right so we going to start with our uh orange you know I guess we call it our orange sauce right so listen you want to get yourself one of these you know like a medium Bowl now I'mma start with a tablespoon of uh cornstarch right we'll get that and everything that you see right here is what I'm going to be using right so we put a couple of tablespoons of uh let's go with this first I don't want it to like Clump up right get yourself a whisk you know we'll just add our orange juice right now I'm going to do something a little different right here because I had that dry and we know that when you put corn starch or flour sometime it has a tendency to go ahead and you know lump up so I'm just going to work that in here just like you see right now we'll come with the rest of our ingredients and again you guys know that oh this goes a long ways folks this right here this sesame seed oil go a long way but you want to put a couple tablespoons in there you know what I mean couple tablespoons or teaspoons again everything is on uh I can just look at it and tell you this is right everything is on my website smoking grilling withth a.com and that's wi abb.com now if you guys notice I'm taking my hand I'm dumping things off over here it's good practices that you guys always have hot soapy water when you're cooking this way you can wash dishes as you go and you know whoever uh is behind you you know they don't have the chore of cleaning it all up you know what I mean so you can do it and everything will be okay now when it comes to your brown sugar because my half cup is uh being used that's what you want to get all right so I'm going to go in here get myself a half you know what I mean but this is a/4 cup so we're Dro it we do it [Music] twice move this out the way right come back to my whisk just work this in here now this is going to be our sauce right but we just getting that out the way right now we got the corn starts don't trip we going to get it to be a little bit on the thick side but we do it like that and then we want to get the zest up in Orange right so now we'll just take it look at it folks now I want to show you you see how it is it's still a little orange there we just want to take it like that you don't want to get it down where it start turning white reason being when it start turning white that's where you get to that bitter part we all learned that from the from the lemon right you guys can see it right here now I'm going give you guys a little tip say you ain't got an orange you can use a lemon I've done it before in the in the past cuz I didn't have one you know what I mean so we just work with it like that but obviously orange chicken spicy we want to go ahead and use an orange all right so look if you guys look everything cut everything ready to go I got all of the they all kind of like different pieces well more so like the different shapes right you'll see how they come into play now I'm going to go ahead and set this over here and then I can put this back in the water and now I can go ahead and grab my station here I love these pans I know uh sometime I use uh paper plates it's up to you how you want to do it right so right here I got a cup of uh that's a cup of corn starch and here I got a half a cup uhoh that does say half yeah half a cup of flour right so we'll just get that mixed in there let me grab myself a whisk and let me wish that you know flour and corn stars are going to be a little bit of a different color even though they whites you know what I mean so you'll see it so the objective is to go ahead and get this completely mixed so you don't have no you know so you can just have it it's supposed to be Blended the right way you'll be able to see it you don't want to see no pockets of just all white or nothing like that right so and I ain't going to lie to y'all you know we can always go ahead and do it old school remember how Grandma used to do it it was with a fork hey my great grandma would put that in the bag sh it all up and that's how you get down you can do it any kind of way you want to right now you guys see that I got my you know my meat thermometer right here you know what I mean but this serves because I want to bring my oil up but we going to talk about all that you want to pick yourself up one of these These are on my website also okay so this is what we going to do you see me make the uh orange sauce so what I'm going to do is set that off to the side right what we got to do is work with the chicken I already clean washed and did everything to my chicken and got it ready to go right now a little bit of a pro tip is if you look down this way is when you put one of these boards down or whatever you know it kind of like move if it does let me see get yourself a wet you know a damp tile right put this underneath the bottom right cuz we dealing with the chicken you know uh we just put this on top all right and look now nothing moves now I'm going to bring my chicken into play let's bring this over here like that and then what we're going to do is we just want to cut this down into bite-sized pieces right maybe one inch or something like that right so let's go we'll just do it like this and then we see where we at right so that's a good size any of this stuff like on the side you don't want to get too critical that's me cutting that off I normally wouldn't do it so we just cut it like this you know get it some pieces main thing is you want them to all be about the same size that's going to be key so when we put them in here we start mixing them around in in the oil doing their thing you want to make sure that they all ready at the same time so you see this right here this right here good now I'm going to grab one more so you guys can see it and then you know look that piece was already ready to go right now this piece down here once we open it up this might be a little exessive you know just cut that off and again we just Biz pieces you know what I mean make sure they all uniform about the same okay so this is done now we going to go ahead and move over here to our wet St our wet station right so we'll just go ahead break this open and get both of these eggs in here then we'll add a little bit of cooking oil to it get that in there like that all right so add a couple tablespoons you know and now we just get these yolks broke okay so look at the consistency here you see that right there that's what you want to have make sure you go ahead and scramble it you know and mix it and you know mix it well but that's what you want you want to make sure that yolk is completely you know dissolv it's not stringy right and it Incorporated the oil now we going to go ahead and start bringing our pan up to our temp okay so what you want to do is you want to pour your cooking oil inside of as you can see I'm using a walk we want to look for 375° now you guys know where the meat themometer came into play all right so what I'm doing now is I'm just checking this to see where we at right now it dropped to 365 oh 380 381 that's fine what's going to happen is once I stick this in the inside it's going to bring it down and that's going to keep us around 375 right chicken we got our pieces together right so what I'm going to do is I'm just going to bring them over here here it start staging some inside just like you see right this is fine right here and the reason I'm doing that you'll see cuz I like to get them all you guys can use some tongs for this right here cuz what we doing is we just building them what we doing is we getting some way for it to coat right so this is going to be the binder that hold our flour and corn starch and by the way I added salt and a little pepper to it it's really not about the seasoning of the uh of your chicken you know why because we going to you know hit it with that orange sauce that's going to be nice hot spicy now what you want to do is shake this off like this just add it in here right the reason we shaking it cuz we got a lot of chicken that you know go ahead and dunk right so after you have a couple of pounds you want to make sure you have enough but I can say two eggs which the oil doesn't all right so once we have them here you you remember earlier I talked about when grandama did it and all of that that that old bag that would really work out really good right here wouldn't it you know so I'm just go ahead and flip this around like this just make sure they coated remember that corn starch was going to make it nice and crispy that's what we want to have then when we hit it with that sauce you guys get the point all right so you seen me go ahead and drop them in here so this is what I do with my tongue I just shake them we pick them up and then we just put them in just like this right you want them to kind of like be ready at the same time so you know I mean so you expeditiously get them in there together right so don't forget the oil going to drop to temperature so when you start you want to be probably around 390 you know and then your fire should go ahead and keep it around 375 this is where it really gets simple right as those are frying in the oil right now now you want to go ahead and get yourself some more you want to drop these in just like this right we want to get those nice and coated and then we once we got these coated then we stage them over here and we'll finish with the rest of them [Music] now I'm going goe and just St these on you know my pan let them drip dry and then we move on to the next batch now I'm going to show you guys something that'll help you with your fried chicken and everything else that you fry we want to check and make sure our oil is that temp right so we took the time to get to 375 now we want to test it and see where we at right now so let me get a reading for you 356 78 79 okay so this is hot enough right so I'm just going to bring this down and when you run your second batch this is why you have success and if you don't have success is because you guys didn't check your oil you know so we just start adding it the rest and I'm not going to bore you guys you guys get to see it right here you know what we doing we just putting it in here you know what I mean if it's a little bit dirty that's okay you might not be able to save your oil but you do want to make make sure you get as much of the flour and corn starch mix mix as possible keeps your oil as clean as it'll be as you can keep it okay so look now we going to go ahead and prep these Peppers right so what I'm going to do is I'm going to cut this off right here now they got seeds in them it's up to you it depends on how you want to do them you know what I mean uh I'm going to leave them like this let's see cut this one down this one down I'm going get this one in half but I think I'mma go ahead and just cut this down just like this easy with oh I didn't want to even get it you see it got some seeds in here I'm g go Ahad and clean this [Music] out you know what I mean and then I'm going to do something like this now it depends on how spicy you guys want this to be but this is what I'm going to do a couple of these I'mma leave whole we'll just go ahead and let them get you know heated and acclimated to that heat drop some seeds in there but when I say spicy we going to make them spicy folks okay so listen when you get to this point right here you done uh press your peppers and all of that so what we going to do is just add a couple tablespoons of cooking oil right here you know what I'm using this is extra vergin uh olive oil which is infused actually this is uh garlic infused you know what I mean so I'll set that there now I got red chili flakes and I got my Peppers right so this is how we going to do this we going to let this come up we want this to be a little bit on the hot side so once it starts to Shimmer right before we hit that smoke point you know what I mean uh we going to go ahead and just start adding red chili flakes and then the peppers okay so now that I got it hot enough I'm going to come with my chili flakes right so remember keep everything going now I'm getting ready to add you know my [Music] Peppers right so you just want to keep everything moving just like you see now I'm getting ready to go ahead and add my my garc clothes right now here's where it get a little tricky I try to find somewhere cuz this is nice and hot folks you know garlic will burn quick so what we're going to do is just build up a little place right here now we just squeeze it right and then we just put it right here on top right that's what you want to do now that becomes fragrant right off the bat then you want to bring your Ginger then we grate Over the Top If you don't see nothing falling that's cuz it's all back here look at this yes sir little sesame [Music] oil and now we just move this around like that let it get nice and hot let it Infuse now tell me when you guys make this the aromatic that Kickback right there don't tell you off the back that it's going to be fire once you got it you can see your Pepper's getting soft I left some holes so can drop some seeds here cuz I know you guys out there love your stuff spicy you know what I mean you can adjust your red peer pepper flakes for your spiciness you know whatever you like on your end right so now that we have that nice and hot I'm looking at this let me Center everything up now you remember this from earlier remember this was our sauce we already got a little corn starch in there we got that nice and hot now we just going to go ahead and cook this I'm going to raise my fire up and what we going to do is we going to you know let it boil and cook till we get our desired thickness okay you guys so look at this right here you see how thick that is you get your desired thickness I'm going to turn this off you know what I mean uh let's see if we can see it coating I coats that and high it just comes off right that's what you going to want to have now you know what to rest you know what to do now these are nice and crispy we just go ahead and put these in here just like this we going to coat these folks [Music] okay folks listen I'm done I'm finished taking pictures of it that's why you guys are here you know checking it out so listen I'm not going to overt talk it or nothing like that I'm F to I haven't even uh tasted it but I can tell you from just making this from time to time this is going to be fire right so I got a little you know fried rice here on the side but you guys want to know about this here is right here if you guys come on in here take a look at that right there you see you see that right there that's it so I'mma go ahead and you know what let me just hit you with the cheers hey when I tell you it's fire I mean fire literally fire and don't forget we put six tablespoons of uh red chili flakes right so listen for those of you guys that wanted to make it a little bit less I would say cut that in half other than that this is nice uh it's smooth food I think with the the half on the red chili flakes will make it a little bit more kidfriendly but you got some of these kids out here that Love Stuff spicy so I would just say make it the way I tell you guys to make it and then uh go from there but if you feel like you can't handle the heat it's TR to get out that kitchen you know just cut it in half super easy look the flavor there it'll remind you you probably say I'm not going back but I ain't going to lie I go to Panda all the time you know what I mean and I get it they not quite as hot as this but this right here is going to be the closest to the you know kabby cat recipe as I can get you now with that being said let me take this time to say thank you for watching this video don't forget to like smash that subscribe button and just tell everybody out there listen it's a channel out here that's simplifying these recipes and taking a mystery out of cooking and when you want to learn how to do some level up cooking like this holler at your boy I'm out peace [Music] oh [Music]