Chinese Lemon Chicken
Chinese Lemon Chicken

Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, chinese lemon chicken. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chinese Lemon Chicken is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Chinese Lemon Chicken is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

The sauce recipe is really awful. Why on earth would you want to ruin a dish with instant lemon pudding? The key ingredients for Chinese lemon chicken Chicken: breast versus thigh meat.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chinese lemon chicken using 24 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Chinese Lemon Chicken:
  1. Get 500 g chicken breast, cut into bite-size pieces
  2. Get Vegetable oil for frying
  3. Get Fried red capsicum for garnish
  4. Get Slice lemon for garnish
  5. Prepare chicken marinate
  6. Make ready 3/4 tsp salt
  7. Get 1/2 egg white
  8. Take 1/2 tsp white pepper
  9. Get 3/4 teaspoon sugar
  10. Take 2 teaspoon chinese cooking wine
  11. Take 1 tablespoon light soy sauce
  12. Get 1 tablespoon corn starch
  13. Get coating flour mix
  14. Take 100 g corn flour
  15. Make ready 100 g plain flour
  16. Take 1 teaspoon baking powder
  17. Get 1/2 tsp salt
  18. Get LEMON SAUCE:
  19. Get 4 tablespoon honey
  20. Make ready 5 tsp sugar
  21. Get 200 ml water
  22. Prepare Lemon zest, from 2 lemons
  23. Prepare 2 tsp corn starch
  24. Take 3 tbsp lemon juice

This is why having your own recipe is just as important as having a take-out menu in your kitchen. 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. Chinese Lemon Chicken is a close match to the super popular Orange chicken in flavor but not presentation.

Steps to make Chinese Lemon Chicken:
  1. For marinate the chicken: Cut the chicken breast into boneless bite-size.
  2. Add salt, egg white, white pepper, sugar, Shaoxing wine, light soy sauce, and cornstarch. Mix well.
  3. Marinate for at least 2 hours or overnight in the refrigerator.
  4. For Coating the chicken for deep frying: Combine corn flour, plain flour, baking powder and salt as flour mix
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Remove the chicken from the oil. Drain the oil on a kitchen towel and set aside.
  8. 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.
  9. Set aside until it returns to room temperature.
  10. Add the honey, lemon juice, lemon zest to the cornstarch mixture that has cool down to room temperature. Mix well.
  11. Place the chicken on a large piece of lettuce.
  12. Drizzle the sauce on the chicken. Garnish with fried red capsicum and slices lemon.

The classic orange chicken is made with chunks of dark meat chicken that are tossed in a sweet, tangy and spicy sauce which lemon chicken is a fried chicken cutlet that is sliced and covered in a freshly made lemon sauce. 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. This Chinese Lemon Chicken recipe is destined to become a new family favorite thanks to the intoxicating sauce and EXTRA crispy chicken. 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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