Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, chinese lemon chicken. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
This Lemon Chicken is an easy, crispy and delicious dish that's sweet and savory, balanced with tangy flavor. This Chinese lemon chicken is crispy battered chicken breast pieces smothered in a sweet and tangy lemon sauce. A remake of the take out classic that tastes just as good as what you'd get in a.
Chinese Lemon Chicken is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Chinese Lemon Chicken is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have chinese lemon chicken using 24 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Chinese Lemon Chicken:
- Get 500 g chicken breast, cut into bite-size pieces
- Prepare Vegetable oil for frying
- Make ready Fried red capsicum for garnish
- Prepare Slice lemon for garnish
- Make ready chicken marinate
- Prepare 3/4 tsp salt
- Get 1/2 egg white
- Prepare 1/2 tsp white pepper
- Prepare 3/4 teaspoon sugar
- Get 2 teaspoon chinese cooking wine
- Get 1 tablespoon light soy sauce
- Get 1 tablespoon corn starch
- Get coating flour mix
- Make ready 100 g corn flour
- Get 100 g plain flour
- Prepare 1 teaspoon baking powder
- Get 1/2 tsp salt
- Get LEMON SAUCE:
- Make ready 4 tablespoon honey
- Take 5 tsp sugar
- Prepare 200 ml water
- Get Lemon zest, from 2 lemons
- Take 2 tsp corn starch
- Get 3 tbsp lemon juice
Like most types of Chinese chicken, the chicken is first to cut into small chunks, battered, and then deeply fried and covered with a sweet lemon sauce. I do have a confession to make. Lemon Chicken - easy and crispy chicken with tangy and sweet lemon sauce. Chinese Lemon Chicken made with crispy fried chicken covered in an authentic, fresh lemon sauce.
Instructions to make Chinese Lemon Chicken:
- For marinate the chicken: Cut the chicken breast into boneless bite-size.
- Add salt, egg white, white pepper, sugar, Shaoxing wine, light soy sauce, and cornstarch. Mix well.
- Marinate for at least 2 hours or overnight in the refrigerator.
- For Coating the chicken for deep frying: Combine corn flour, plain flour, baking powder and salt as flour mix
- Add the flour mix to the chicken pieces. Add more if it is insufficient to cover all the chicken. Any excess flour will fall off from the chicken.
- Shake off the excess flour. Deep fried in hot oil at 180°C/350°F for four minutes or when the color turns golden brown.
- Remove the chicken from the oil. Drain the oil on a kitchen towel and set aside.
- For making the lemon sauce: Place the sugar, constarch and water in a small pot or saucepan. Remove it when the sugar is dissolved, the sauce thickens and turns translucent.
- Set aside until it returns to room temperature.
- Add the honey, lemon juice, lemon zest to the cornstarch mixture that has cool down to room temperature. Mix well.
- Place the chicken on a large piece of lettuce.
- Drizzle the sauce on the chicken. Garnish with fried red capsicum and slices lemon.
The ultimate Chinese Lemon Chicken Recipe which is way better than take-out. Chinese Lemon Chicken is a traditional Chinese made with chicken cooked in a sweet, sticky, tart lemon sauce. It's typically served with white rice at restaurants. Lemon chicken is quite a common dish in Chinese restaurants in India and it's always been one of I personally prefer it to orange chicken though, cos where orange chicken is just sweet, the tanginess. Lemon chicken is the name of several dishes found in cuisines around the world which include chicken and lemon.
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