If you listened to the radio show earlier this week (and if you weren’t why?) you know that this is something I have made before. This is a good thing. The execution of the sauce was much better, and the green bean salad was more well composed. My photography skills still stink.
The sauce was based in orange marmalade, but given some body with chicken broth and the drippings from the breast itself. One major change I made to the recipe was reducing the amount of corn starch and increasing the marmalade. Corn starch is used mostly as a thickening agent, but usually it just makes things extra slimy. Besides, there is marmalade in this stuff. The sauce was plenty thick the way I made it. The best part, the extra marmalade made it extra orangey. Nothing better than chicken with a little flavor.
The green bean salad also took a little prowess, if I do say so myself. It contained red onions, which in a mid veggie salad such as the one I was constructing, could be overpowering. Instead of going with slices of raw red onion, I chopped it up and let it marinate in the dressing so the flavor would be present, but milder. The rest of the dressing was orange flavored as well, with an orange juice base. The sugar and red onion essence made it have a subtly different flavor that really worked as a contrast to the chicken though.
Might be the best food I have made in quite a while.
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