Chicken in an Orange Curry Sauce

I have some leftover cooked chicken breast in the fridge and was trying to figure out what to do with it. I ALSO have some leftover vegetable fried rice from one of our grocery store's Chinese takeout counter (Quality Foods ... best Chinese takeout in the valley!) and last but not least I saw a video recently on Foodwishes showing the proper technique for sectioning an orange to get perfect orange supremes and this gives me the chance to experiment with THAT as well!

So with those 3 criteria set out I began pondering what to do for supper and decided on Chicken in an Orange Curry Sauce .. sounds yummy but I am a little gun shy from my pecan crusted chicken fiasco last week, so we'll see. At the very least it allows me to use up 2 leftovers in the fridge as well as practice a new technique so it's definitely worth at least one try :) Nothing ventured ... nothing gained ....

Ingredients:

• 300g chicken breast, cooked and cubed (about 2 small breast halves or 2-3 cups)
• 2 cup Vegetable fried rice (or plain cooked rice, whatever you have on hand)
• 1 can sweet potato diced, drained
• 1/2 cup orange juice concentrate (undiluted)
• 1/2 cup water
• 3 Tbsp honey
• 1 Tbsp curry powder
• 2 Tbsp lime juice OR juice from 1 lime
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tsp nutmeg
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp garlic salt
• 1/2 tsp ground black pepper
• 1/2 red bell pepper diced
• 2 oranges peeled and sectioned

Directions:

1. Place rice in 9x9 baking dish, top with diced cooked chicken and drained sweet potatoes
2. Mix remaining ingredients, except the orange sections, in a small bowl and pour over chicken, if it looks too dry you can add a litle more orange juice.
3. top with orange sections
4. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes or til heated through

Makes 2 generous servings or 4 if you add a side to this such as green beans or a salad

This turned out surprisingly good. Not to die for by any means but pretty decent for a leftover meal. Hot and spicy and fresh tasting. It looked kinda pretty as well with the orange sections on top. I'd make this again but not for company, while it's a good hearty meal it isn't quite guest fare. Next time I'd up the honey by a Tbsp and cut back on the ground pepper ... I included those changes in the written recipe above. I might try and cut back the sodium in this as well it was kinda 'up there' maybe use garlic powder instead of garlic salt.

The whole meal as written clocked in at an even 800 calories/serving (based on 2 servings) and you can view the complete nutritional values HERE

IA