Minted Orange Chicken - Meat on the Menu

[Katya]

Cooked this last week and it was very tasty.    However, the chicken seemed overcooked after only 6 minutes and was a bit devoid of flavour and texture so I would give it 4/5 done as directed in the book.

 I cooked it again this week (purely  in the spirit of experimentation of course) and, instead of cooking the chicken in the Thermomix, I fried the pieces in a little olive oil, with the result that they caramalised - I then poured the sauce over the top and let it reduce.

OH and I both felt that the second batch was a lot more tasty so it is now 5/5

I served it with cous-cous and sprouts stir-fried with garlic, ginger and cumin seeds.   Sorry I didn't manage a photo 

[judydawn]

Imagine if you had cooked the chicken strips for the whole 12 minutes that the recipe called for Katya
I have a packet of chicken strips in the freezer so I will earmark it for this recipe and see how 5 minutes would go. Won't be until the new year though. Thanks for the review, DH hates overcooked, dry chicken and you have saved me from serving exactly that up to him 

[judydawn]

I did half of this recipe, cooking it for 4 minutes which was fine but I think the recipe would be far better suited to chicken thighs and not chicken fillets.  It wasn't bad but I wouldn't bother doing it again. 3/5 from me.

[Katya]

Sorry you didn't like it JD, especially as it has so many ingredients.   I definitely think that cooking the chicken in the TMX is a mistake and frying it  in a hot frying pan makes all the difference.    But I know a lot of people don't want to do things outside of the machine so wouldn't want to do it this way.

[judydawn]

Ha ha, I'm one of those people Katya     I have been thinking about that recipe and think if I had added a little chicken stock at the end and slightly thickened it, it may have been more to my liking.  I like a sauce to cling to the meat and not drain away leaving the meat dry. There are so many recipes to try that a recipe has to be very special for me to re-visit it and one can't expect to like them all.

[cookie1]

My mob don't like anything fruit with anything meat/chicken. So I have apple sauce for one with pork and so on. They don't know what they're missing. I may still give this a go and too bad.

[cecilia]

Our mob thought this recipe was AWESOME.  5/5  and thanks for the nice meal, recipe writer.

[Courty40]

Yummy! Just made this, it worked well. Served with the Cyndi O'Meara Healthy Eating Apple Coucous. Good match!

[NICKY 74]

I made this last night, and everyone loved it, me, mum and dad and my two kiddies aged 4 and 5
The only thing I did different was to use cumin seeds and mill them myself as I didn't have any powder, and I think that made it really tasty, also only added a few chilli flakes and no fresh chilli.
We gave this 5/5.
Served it with couscous and green beans and was a great combo. Nothing was dry at all, I did notice the chicken looked like it was getting cooked a bit too quickly, but I still gave it the full 12 mins, and it wasn't dry at all. It kind of shredded it quite a lot though.
Will def be making it again.

[Katya]

Thanks for posting this - I had completely forgotten about this dish so it's nice to be reminded of it.  Must try it again soon

[Ashlie]

I made this one tonight and our family loved the flavours.  The chicken was really dry though.....  This was only my second dish I had cooked in the TM and I was wondering if anyone has any advice on what I can do to make stays tender.  I also had the TM on  as the recipe said and it seemed to shred.  550gms of chicken was cooked in the marinade on 100 for 12 mins.  If the chicken was tender I'd give this a 5/5.  I'd love to try it again and get it right 

[judydawn]

Hi Ashlie, welcome to the forum with your first recipe review.  I've moved it to merge with previous reviews so if you read the other reviews, you may find how to improve it for next time.

[cookie1]

Welcome Ashlie. I hope you try the recipe again after reading the reviews. Let us know how it went.