Anyway, it turned out perfectly. So I went hunting for it again after buying (insert ridiculous number here) large containers of coleslaw out of laziness, only to find this last time, that KFC had changed their packaging-and the amount they give you. They tried to tell me it was the same amount, but I see through their lies. There's no way in heck that's even close to the same amount. Pft.
After finding a copycat recipe that looks right on (haven't tried it yet), I started looking for others. And naturally the first one I thought of was Panda Expresses orange chicken. Excuse me while I grab a rag....
I have found numerous copycat recipes for it, many of which people rav over the sauce, but in every single one they say that the chicken itself never cooks up the same. I kept looking and looking with no luck. Then tonight, two things occurred to me. One, if you can't get the chicken right, why not just buy precooked and battered chicken?? Its not much more than plain chicken breast and the hardest parts been done for you-and done well. So this is my plan of attack. Buy plain popcorn chicken or something along that line, and throw together the sauce.
So what was the second thing I realized? That Panda Express sells their orange chicken sauce. In grocery stores. How did I remember this? I went hunting in the fridge for stir fry sauce...and there was half a bottle. I have no idea how I forgot this. I feel about as bright as...a burnt out light bulb. Yeah, that's all I can come up with.
In any case, I now have a sure fire copycat recipe for orange chicken. Sort of. Whatever, it'll taste good.
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