Whenever the family takes a trip to the big city, the kid ask to eat at P.F. Changs or Panda Express…mostly to get the tasty Orange Chicken. In fact, they love it so much they started asking for us to make it at home. The challenge for me as the cook was that we were eating far less meat, so I wanted to find a recipe that incorporated the tasty orange sauce with the right veggie. Fortunately, the interweb is chalked full of different recipes for making meatless Orange Chicken, so I’m going to take you through my last time cooking the recipe. Could I fool the kids? Firstly, the recipe isn’t mine so I totally give credit where it’s due. I accessed the recipe on the website called Nora Cooks, which is crammed with so many other tasty vegan and veggie recipes it makes me hungry just looking at it. Like I said above, the family loves Orange Chicken but we’re eating far less meat, so I wanted a quick and easy recipe to make Orange Chicken with no meat. You can look up the exact recipe on Nora Cooks, but here’s my take to get you interested.
First, I got all my ingredients together and knew I would to make two different dishes- one is the baked coated cauliflower and the other is the sauce. Here’s my story in pics:
Then the sheets of cauliflower go into the oven. While they’re cooking, it’s time to make and simmer the orange sauce….ummm so yummy.
Once the cauliflower is done in the oven, you can put sauce over the individual pieces on the cookie sheet or choose to combine it all in the sauce pan. We threw the cauliflower into the sauce and let it all simmer a bit, making an ooohy gooey and yummy Orange Cauliflower meal that we dumped over rice and grubbed on.
Here’s what the combination looked like:
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