HOISIN ORANGE GLAZE FOR LAZY COOKS, wallet-friendly

A Super quick glaze that's high in flavour, lower in fat and utterly more-ish...

The easiest, most satisfying savoury glaze ever 

This glaze is for days when life has become frantic, everyone is starving, you're exhausted after work...and you can't face even making a rub or marinade.

The Hoisin Orange Glaze is a delightful 'flavour-to-savour' that - in Jaimie's words - 'pimps up' all kinds of meat and fish.

You'll need quick-cooking cuts: fish fillets, chicken wings/ thighs/drums
/breasts, pork ribs/strips, beef short ribs or kebabs, lamb ribs or neck.

Then, a bottle of Hoisin Sauce (available in Chinatown and in every major supermarket), some fresh oranges and a few sesame seeds.

The hard work begins thus:

1. Preheat oven to 180c/350f/gas5
2. Brush the protein with the hoisin
3. Scatter over a bit of orange zest
4. Arrange protein on a rack in a baking tray 
5. For fish fillets, cook in the middle of the oven 10-15 minutes; the fish should flakes nicely if the the point of a knife is inserted into the thickest part of the fish; (a bit of pink is fine; the fish will carry on cooking out of the oven.) Cover with foil and rest 10 mins; squeeze over wedges of fresh orange)  
6. For meat bake in the top of the oven 20 mins
7. Paint with more hoisin, return to oven but in the centre this time
8. Bake a further 15-20 mins, brushing twice more with sauce; on final brush, sprinkle generously with sesame seeds
9. Arrange on serving platter with orange wedges; squeeze the juice from the oranges wedges over the meat

Kids love this glaze; food ends up crispy, smokey, sweet and just delightful.  
It's another wallet-friendly recipe that's a doddle to put together.  

Comment: 
'Seldom has something so deliciously flavoured been so quick and easy to make.' Retired writer

Tip:

• save time and energy -- make double the recipe and put one lot aside for the freezer or eating within 3 days. 
• bake new potatoes that have been lightly oiled and seasoned with salt & pepper at the same time
• if you liked this you will also like 67's Savoury Rub 

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This recipe has been developed by B M Lee/ Bright Sun Enterprises and may not be reproduced, in any form, without the author's written permission.