"Orange" Chicken

[Rich G]

When I see that title these days, it conjures up the image of my kids' favorite dish at our local Chinese restaurant. Tonight, we decided on chicken, needing to be a bit healthier after a week of cruise line buffets!! I had a bunch of oranges on the tree to use, so I put together a marinade with orange juice, orange zest, soy sauce, olive oil, garlic, ginger and a touch of salt. After a couple of hours in the "sauce", these chicken quarters went on indirect at about 400 degrees:

I added a bit of honey to some reserved marinade, and after devotedly brushing this mixture onto the chicken every 10 minutes, I was rewarded with this after about 40 minutes total:

To be served with sides of quinoa, and steamed broccoli........if it turns out terrible, I'll post back here and warn all of you not to try it!!

R

 

[Rich G]

Just in case anyone was concerned......turned out very nice! The orange flavor really came through, and I forgot how much I like quinoa (and how simple it is!!)

R

 

[Robert T]

There's no way it's not going to turn out! I love the color.

 

[Craig Alumbaugh]

The chicken looks awesome Rich

 

[JRAiona]

Great looking chicken Rich.

 

[GGross]

Looks great, you can also brine in Orange soda works well.

 

[Luke P]

That looks perfect, and sounds delicious.

 

[Rich Dahl]

Very nice chicken, might give that a try.

 

[Barb D]

WOW!! That's some nice looking chicken and will be giving that a try will soon. It looks delicious Rich.

 

[russ olin]

Orange chicken looks fly away guud.

 

[Cliff Bartlett]

Great job on that chicken Rich. The marinade sounds delicious.

 

[Angie H.]

That's a fine chicken cook. Nice new way to use a marinade. I usually always go for Italian or greek marinade with chicken, will have to try yours out!

 

[Robert-R]

Your chicken looks superb.
We eat so much chicken around here - will have to try that.
Would enjoy the flavor change.

 

[Rich G]

Thanks for all the nice comments. Many of my inspirations come from epicurious.com. I say "inspirations" because I rarely have all of the ingredients that they list, but usually can find a way to take the spirit of one of their recipes and make it work for me. For this one, I didn't have any of the greens called for, and I subbed ginger for garlic, etc......

Weber on!!

Rich

 

[James N]

Look's killer Rich, The first thing that came to my mind when i seen your post was ( The Golden Buddha )Where we use to get there orange chicken all the time when we lived in the bay area.

 

[John Sp]

Great looking bird Rich. I have done something similar with lemon in the past (we have a Meyer lemon tree) but never with OJ. That is going into our 'try it soon' bucket...

Regards,

John