This Skinny Orange Chicken is a light version of any takeout Orange Chicken-easy to make and low in points!
GREEN: 4 Smartpoints per serving
BLUE: 2 SmartPoints per serving
PURPLE: 2 SmartPoints per serving
This recipe will go perfectly with these recipes:
Chicken Fried Cauliflower Rice
This Skinny Orange Chicken can made in the Instant Pot for a quick and easy weekday meal or in the Slow Cooker for those days when you want dinner ready when you get home.
Combine soy sauce, brown sugar substitute, chicken pieces, and BBQ sauce into the slow cooker or instant pot.
Cook on low for 6 hours or high for 4 hours.
Scoop out 1/4 cup of the barbecue sauce mixture from the instant pot or slow cooker and mix with 2 tsp of cornstarch and pace in a small mixing bowl. Whisk until the cornstarch has been completely incorporated. (This will help prevent lumps from the cornstarch and will help thicken the sauce.)
Add the orange marmalade.
Cook for an additional 30-45 minutes on low.

Ingredients:
- 4 ( 4 oz.) boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into bite size pieces
- 1 (12.75 oz.) jar Smucker’s sugar free orange marmalade
- 2 Tbsp soy sauce
- 8 Tbsp or 1/2 cup sugar free BBQ sauce ( I use G Hughes original sugar free BBQ sauce)
- 1 Tbsp brown sugar substitute ( I use Lakanto Golden Monkfruit Sweetener)
- 2 tsp corn starch
- Garnish with diced green onions and sesame seeds, if desired.
Instant Pot Directions:
- Combine soy sauce, brown sugar substitute, chicken pieces, and BBQ sauce into instant pot.
- Cook on manual high for 4 minutes.
- When the chicken is done, fast release the steam.
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Scoop out 1/4 cup of the barbecue sauce mixture from the instant pot and mix with 2 tsp of cornstarch and pace in a small mixing bowl. Whisk until the cornstarch has been completely incorporated. (This will help prevent lumps from the cornstarch and will help thicken the sauce.)
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Pour cornstarch mixture back into Instant Pot.
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Add orange marmalade. Stir well.
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Change setting on Instant Pot to sauté setting and sauté for 5 minutes or until sauce thickens.
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Let it sit for 5-10 minutes before serving. The sauce will begin to thicken as it sits.
- Garnish with diced green onions and sesame seeds, if desired.
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Serve with white/brown rice or cauliflower rice and your favorite veggie.
Slow Cooker Directions:
- Combine soy sauce, brown sugar substitute, chicken pieces, and BBQ sauce into the slow cooker.
- Cook on low for 6 hours or high for 4 hours.
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Scoop out 1/4 cup of the orange/barbecue sauce mixture from the slow cooker and mix with 2 tsp of cornstarch in a small mixing bowl. Whisk until cornstarch has been completely incorporated. (This will help prevent lumps from the cornstarch and will help thicken the sauce.)
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Pour cornstarch mixture back into slow cooker.
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Add orange marmalade. Stir well.
- Cook for an additional 30-45 minutes on low.
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Let it sit for 5-10 minutes before serving. The sauce will begin to thicken as it sits
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Garnish with diced green onions and sesame seeds, if desired.
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Serve with white/brown rice or cauliflower rice and your favorite veggie.
Servings: 4 ( 4 oz.) servings
GREEN: 4 Smartpoints per serving
BLUE: 2 SmartPoints per serving
PURPLE: 2 SmartPoints per serving
Skinny Orange Chicken

This Skinny Orange Chicken is a light version of any takeout Orange Chicken-easy to make and low in points!
Author: thepounddropper.com
Ingredients
- 4 ( 4oz.) boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into bite size pieces
- 1 (12.75 oz.) jar Smucker’s sugar free orange marmalade
- 2 Tbsp soy sauce
- 8 Tbsp or 1/2 cup sugar free BBQ sauce ( I use G Hughes original sugar free BBQ sauce)
- 1 Tbsp brown sugar substitute ( I use Lakanto Golden Monkfruit Sweetener)
- 2 tsp corn starch
- Garnish with diced green onions and sesame seeds, if desired.
Instructions
Instant Pot Directions:
- Combine soy sauce, brown sugar substitute, chicken pieces, and BBQ sauce into instant pot.
- Cook on manual high for 4 minutes.
- When the chicken is done, fast release the steam.
- Scoop out 1/4 cup of the barbecue sauce mixture from the instant pot and mix with 2 tsp of cornstarch and pace in a small mixing bowl. Whisk until the cornstarch has been completely incorporated. (This will help prevent lumps from the cornstarch and will help thicken the sauce.)
- Pour cornstarch mixture back into Instant Pot.
- Add orange marmalade. Stir well.
- Change setting on Instant Pot to sauté setting and sauté for 5 minutes or until sauce thickens.
- Let it sit for 5-10 minutes before serving. The sauce will begin to thicken as it sits.
- Garnish with diced green onions and sesame seeds, if desired.
- Serve with white/brown rice or cauliflower rice and your favorite veggie.
Slow Cooker Directions:
- Combine soy sauce, brown sugar substitute, chicken pieces, and BBQ sauce into the slow cooker.
- Cook on low for 6 hours or high for 4 hours.
- Scoop out 1/4 cup of the orange/barbecue sauce mixture from the slow cooker and mix with 2 tsp of cornstarch in a small mixing bowl. Whisk until cornstarch has been completely incorporated. (This will help prevent lumps from the cornstarch and will help thicken the sauce.)
- Pour cornstarch mixture back into slow cooker.
- Add orange marmalade. Stir well.
- Cook for an additional 30-45 minutes on low.
- Let it sit for 5-10 minutes before serving. The sauce will begin to thicken as it sits
- Garnish with diced green onions and sesame seeds, if desired.
- Serve with white/brown rice or cauliflower rice and your favorite veggie.
Servings: 4 ( 4 oz.) servings
GREEN: 4 Smartpoints per serving
BLUE: 2 SmartPoints per serving
PURPLE: 2 SmartPoints per serving
Notes
- In order to calculate the freestyle smart points on a recipe you have to enter the ingredients in manually (by ingredient) not by the nutritional information in the ww recipe builder-since this recipe contains zero point items the app doesn’t realize there is zero point items in the recipe and will calculate it based only off the nutritional info which is not accurate.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield:
4Amount Per Serving: Calories: 184Total Fat: 3gSaturated Fat: 1gCholesterol: 55mgSodium: 879mgCarbohydrates: 31gFiber: 11gSugar: 0gProtein: 23g
This recipe does NOT need the extra sweetener, the bbq sauce & marmalade are plenty sweet without it.
Hi Mark,
Thanks for your comment review. I appreciate it. You can omit the extra sweetener if you prefer. I like to add a little extra as a binding agent for the bbq sauce and the orange marmalade.
Thanks so much,
Linds
This recipe was delicious and worth searching multiple grocery stores for the Orange marmalade
Hi Debbie.
Thank you for your fantastic review. I am thrilled to hear it was worth the search. Glad you were able to find it. My local Walmart seems to be the only store that carries the sugar free one.
Thanks so much!
I just made this recipe for dinner and not only is it easy and fast but it’s definitely so delicious. My picky husband devoured it. This will be on my weekly recipe rotation. Amazing!!
Hi Ana!
Thank you for your comments! I’m thrilled to hear it was a hit with your picky husband! I appreciated the great review!
Linds
Made this tonight and it was great! I will definitely be making this again. Thanks so much for sharing the recipe!! 2 points whoot whoot!!!
My wife and I loved this recipe, I used Stubb’s BBQ sauce, and it drove the flavor. The sauce consistency was a little runnier this way, so might need a bit more corn starch next time.
question: can I make a double batch and freeze the rest?
Thanks, Dorit