Quick Orange Chicken
by the Editors of Easy Home Cooking Magazine
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Quick Orange Chicken
Yield: Makes 4 servings
Ingredients:
2
tablespoons frozen orange juice concentrate
1
tablespoon no-sugar-added orange marmalade
1
teaspoon Dijon mustard
1/4
teaspoon salt
4
boneless skinless chicken breast halves (about 1 pound)
1/2
cup fresh orange sections
2
tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
Preparation:
1.
For sauce, combine juice concentrate, marmalade, mustard and salt in 8-inch shallow microwavable dish until juice concentrate is thawed.
2.
Add chicken, coating both sides with sauce. Arrange chicken around edge of dish without overlapping. Cover with vented plastic wrap. Microwave on HIGH 3 minutes; turn chicken over. Microwave on MEDIUM-HIGH (70%) 4 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink in center.
3.
Remove chicken to serving plate. Microwave remaining sauce on HIGH 2 to 3 minutes or until slightly thickened.
4.
To serve, spoon sauce over chicken; top with orange sections and parsley.
Nutritional Information:
| Serving Size: 1 chicken breast half with about 2 teaspoons sauce and 1 ounce of orange sections | |
| Fiber | 1 g |
| Carbohydrate | 8 g |
| Cholesterol | 66 mg |
| Saturated Fat | <1 g |
| Total Fat | 1 g |
| Calories from Fat | 8 % |
| Calories | 157 |
| Protein | 27 g |
| Sodium | 234 mg |
Dietary Exchange:
| Meat | 3 |
This recipe appears in: Chicken