Try This: Chicken With Mango

The other night I was with a friend of mine and we were feeling ambitious, so we decided to tackle a pretty tricky Mango chicken recipe , despite the fact we were missing a lot of the ingredients. The main ingredients are present chicken, mangos, onions, orange juice, soo the rest can be consider optional.

I guess we didn’t realize that having about one third of the amount of orange juice we needed would affect the recipe, so we started anyway. Cook in a pan little pieces of chicken.

We chopped up about half a small red onion and threw that in once the chicken was cooked. After that we added our portion of orange juice, which was short by two-thirds of what the recipe called for, and let it rest.

This is how the very bland sauce was started. We used frozen mangos and added them when it came to a boil. Still, everything was cooking nicely. We were getting there. I thought it was an easy chicken recipe. I was wrong.

Lastly, you dissolve 2 tablespoons of cornstarch in a little bit of water, then add it to the sauce to thicken it.
We replaced the cornstarch with flour, without reduceing the quantity of the water/flour mixture. Since we had so little orange juice, in essence, so little flavor for the sauce, we certainly should have added much less. Instead, the sauce got real thick very fast. It still looked decent though, just really thick, bordering on slop and pretty close to baby food.

When we tasted it we were surprised. Not horrified, not please, just surprised, the sauce had a hint of orange juice but tasted mostly like flour. Otherwise the recipe was nice, the chicken was cooked nice although it certainly could have used some spices.

More onions would have also improved the flavor. This time our mango-chicken was a smudge thing, not a food.We will make better next time. It tasted even better than the chicken wing recipe  my mother always prepared for us.