Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, chinese lemon chicken. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Chinese Lemon Chicken is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Chinese Lemon Chicken is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
The key ingredients for Chinese lemon chicken Chicken: breast versus thigh meat. You can use either chicken breast or thigh meat for the Chinese lemon chicken. Cut the chicken breast into boneless bite-size, either with the skin on or removed.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have chinese lemon chicken using 24 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Chinese Lemon Chicken:
- Make ready 500 g chicken breast, cut into bite-size pieces
- Prepare Vegetable oil for frying
- Prepare Fried red capsicum for garnish
- Make ready Slice lemon for garnish
- Make ready chicken marinate
- Make ready 3/4 tsp salt
- Prepare 1/2 egg white
- Make ready 1/2 tsp white pepper
- Make ready 3/4 teaspoon sugar
- Take 2 teaspoon chinese cooking wine
- Take 1 tablespoon light soy sauce
- Prepare 1 tablespoon corn starch
- Make ready coating flour mix
- Take 100 g corn flour
- Make ready 100 g plain flour
- Make ready 1 teaspoon baking powder
- Take 1/2 tsp salt
- Prepare LEMON SAUCE:
- Prepare 4 tablespoon honey
- Get 5 tsp sugar
- Get 200 ml water
- Make ready Lemon zest, from 2 lemons
- Make ready 2 tsp corn starch
- Make ready 3 tbsp lemon juice
This is why having your own recipe is just as important as having a take-out menu in your kitchen. The first step to making Chinese lemon chicken is to batter and fry your chicken pieces. I use chunks of boneless skinless chicken breasts, but chicken thighs will also work just fine. The chicken pieces are dipped in a seasoned egg mixture, then coated in a blend of cornstarch and flour.
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 lemon sauce was absolutely divine; not sickly sweet as in Chinese restaurants but light, clear with a rich citrus flavor. I also used a dutch oven to fry the pieces. Chinese Lemon Chicken is a Chinese food favorite and one of my go to's because the sauce is so easy to make and has such a great sweet and sour flavor without needing all the red food coloring. Just a few ingredients and you'll be glad you didn't pick up the phone and call your favorite delivery spot. This Chinese Lemon Chicken recipe is destined to become a new family favorite thanks to the intoxicating sauce and EXTRA crispy chicken.
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