A Mango Chicken Slop

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.

Even if we had only a third from required orange juice we started cooking the recipe, without thinking we could ruin the food. Cook in a pan little pieces of chicken.

When the chicken is almost ready add a half chopped small red onion. Now add a third of a cup of orange juice, leaving the rest for later, and that will sit for a while.

It was the beginnings of a sauce, a very minimally flavored sauce. When the water is sligthly bubbling add the mangos. If you don't have fresh, used a frozen one. Still, everything was cooking nicely. We were getting there. I thought it was an easy chicken recipe. I was wrong.

Two tablespoons of cornstarch attenuate in hot water added to the and will firm the sauce
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. The sauce looked pretty good despite the fact that it thickened too fast and had a consistency not unlike 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. We finished up our bowls of mango-chicken-flour slop and marked the recipe. It sure would taste good if we had made it right! It tasted even better than the chicken wing recipe  my mother always prepared for us.