Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, chinese lemon chicken. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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.
Chinese Lemon Chicken is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Chinese Lemon Chicken is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chinese lemon chicken using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Chinese Lemon Chicken:
- Take 2-3 big chicken breasts(for family of 4)
- Make ready 4 table spoons soy sauce
- Take 1 table spoon salt
- Make ready 2 table spoons black pepper
- Prepare 1 table spoon cumin
- Take 2 eggs
- Take 1 cup regular or corn flour
- Get Sause
- Make ready 1 tea spoon lemon zest
- Take Couple of lemon(slices)
- Prepare 2 tea spoons honey
- Get 2 tea spoons sugar
- Get 1 table spoon salt
- Prepare 1/4 cup lemon juice
- Get 3 table spoons of slurry(flour mixed with water)
- Make ready 2 cups chicken stock
- Get 2 table spoons olive oil
- Get Sesame seeds
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. Dip the chicken pieces into the egg mixture then cook in the hot oil until golden brown, turning as needed. Remove with a slotted spoon and drain on paper towels.
Instructions to make Chinese Lemon Chicken:
- Clean the chicken, cut it into small/medium pieces. Add the seasonings,pepper,salt,cumin,soy sauce and if you prefer to add anything else. Leave it over night in the fridge.
- Next day, add 2 eggs,and the flour and mix them. Put the chicken back in the fridge for about 15-20minutes.
- Meanwhile the chicken is in the the fridge, start boiling the oil as it takes time.
- Now fry the chicken in a deep pan and put it on the side untill sause is ready.
- Sause, use a small pan. Put the oil, lemon zest, chicken stock (I used the powder)sugar,salt and honey. Mix well. Put the lemon slices and leave the sause to boil for about 30minutes.
- Remove the lemon slices,add the slurry, i added alittle more flour and keep mixing to make the flour dissolve. Add sesame seeds,and pour the sause on the chicken.
- Use a colander to keep the sause without any lemon pieces/zest. The sause is ready.
Place the chicken in a serving dish and top with the sliced green onions. Pour the sauce evenly over the top of the chicken. 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. To make this Chinese Lemon Chicken recipe, bite-size chicken gets tossed in a simple ONE STEP batter then coated in panko, baked or fried then enveloped in a sticky, sweet and tangy. multidimensional lemon sauce that will have you drooling.
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