This post may contain affiliate links. Please read our disclosure policy.
The Best Orange Chicken Recipe that’s made with 4 ingredients! Yummy bites of chicken covered in a sweet and flavorful orange sauce all in one dish. Served over rice or noodles, this quick dinner recipe is on the table in 30 minutes!
Orange Chicken
The nuggets have a sweet and tangy flavor from the combination of marmalade and bbq orange chicken sauce. When it comes to Chinese food, this meal is always a crowd favorite, especially with picky eaters. Skip the Panda Express orange chicken takeout, save money, and make this instead!
Pin this now to save it for later
Pin It Now
Ingredients:
- Large bag of frozen chicken nuggets – boneless, skinless, chicken nugget breasts
- Orange marmalade – found in the jelly aisle of the grocery store
- BBQ sauce – we recommendt Sweet Baby Ray’s BBQ sauce. Since the marmalade is sweet, I suggest avoiding a sweet flavored BBQ sauce.
- Soy sauce – a popular cooking ingredient and condiment!
- Green onion – for garnish (optional)
Instructions:
Preheat oven and bake the frozen chicken nuggets according to package instructions. Allow the chicken nuggets to cool while you prepare the tasty sauce.
In a medium-sized frying pan or skillet, add orange marmalade, BBQ sauce, and soy sauce.
Over medium-high heat, warm the orange sauce for 5-7 minutes while stirring occasionally. Once the sauce is hot, it will make the cooked chicken breast pieces hot again.
Pour sauce on top of the cooked chicken nuggets. Toss and stir the nuggets in the sauce mixture until the chicken pieces are coated evenly.
Serving Suggestions
- Garnishes: green onion, red pepper flakes, orange zest, ginger, etc.
- White rice
- Brown rice
- Cauliflower rice
- Noodles
- Eggs
- Broccoli or other vegetables
- Salad
Storage
Store the leftovers in an airtight container in the refrigerator for 3 days. Warm the leftovers in the microwave (the leftovers taste even better!).
More Easy Chicken Dinners
Orange Chicken Recipe
Orange Chicken
Equipment
- baking sheet
- Mixing bowl
- Medium size cooking pan or skillet
Ingredients
- 5 cups frozen chicken nuggets
- 1 cup orange marmalade
- ½ cup Sweet Baby Ray’s BBQ sauce
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- Green onion for garnish (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven and cook chicken nuggets according to package instructions.
- In a medium sized cooking pan, add orange marmalade, BBQ sauce, and soy sauce.
- Over medium-high heat, warm the orange sauce for 5-7 minutes while stirring occasionally.
- Pour sauce on top of the cooked chicken nuggets. Stir the nuggets in the sauce until the pieces of chicken are coated evenly.
- Serve over rice or noodles
Sounds wonderful…great for my Sunday family dinner.
Very good and so simple I didn’t have orange marmalade but I had fig jam that I make sauce with for a tenderloin recipe I have so I used it instead. Everyone liked it this is a keeper
good
can you make 4 ingredient orange chicken in a crock pot. ?? looking for ideas for game night. I live over 1 1/2 hrs. away from gamers. make ahead needed, please. the
I suppose you could make it in a crock pot and keep it on low… I bet that would be great, actually!
thank you for the recipe. but do you have one for general tso chicken and sesame chicken. my son lives all of them.
thank you
the recipe doesn’t say measurements to make sauce. do we use the whole jar of jam an chicen sauce all of it, soya sauce two tbls
The recipe card with all of the measurements and directions is at the end of the post, just above this comment section. It’s printable and interactive for you too!
Excellent
Bake at what temperature? Not in write up or recipe card.
Bake the chicken nuggets at the temperature it indicates on your bag of chicken nuggets (some brands are different). Then, warm the sauce in a pan over medium heat. Pour the warm sauce over the cooked nuggets.
How much is 5 cups of the frozen chicken nuggets? Just wondering how many bags to buy!