Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to my recipe site. 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 unique. This will be really delicious.
Chinese Lemon Chicken is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, 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.
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 begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook chinese lemon chicken using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Chinese Lemon Chicken:
- Take 2-3 big chicken breasts(for family of 4)
- Take 4 table spoons soy sauce
- Get 1 table spoon salt
- Prepare 2 table spoons black pepper
- Prepare 1 table spoon cumin
- Make ready 2 eggs
- Make ready 1 cup regular or corn flour
- Take Sause
- Make ready 1 tea spoon lemon zest
- Get Couple of lemon(slices)
- Make ready 2 tea spoons honey
- Get 2 tea spoons sugar
- Take 1 table spoon salt
- Get 1/4 cup lemon juice
- Take 3 table spoons of slurry(flour mixed with water)
- Take 2 cups chicken stock
- Prepare 2 table spoons olive oil
- Get Sesame seeds
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.
Steps 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.
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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