Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, chinese lemon chicken. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Chinese Lemon Chicken is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Chinese Lemon Chicken is something which I have loved my entire life. They are 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. Asian prefers chicken thigh over breast meat.
To get started with this recipe, we have to 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:
- Take 500 g chicken breast, cut into bite-size pieces
- Get Vegetable oil for frying
- Prepare Fried red capsicum for garnish
- Make ready Slice lemon for garnish
- Get chicken marinate
- Prepare 3/4 tsp salt
- Take 1/2 egg white
- Take 1/2 tsp white pepper
- Take 3/4 teaspoon sugar
- Prepare 2 teaspoon chinese cooking wine
- Make ready 1 tablespoon light soy sauce
- Make ready 1 tablespoon corn starch
- Take coating flour mix
- Prepare 100 g corn flour
- Make ready 100 g plain flour
- Make ready 1 teaspoon baking powder
- Make ready 1/2 tsp salt
- Make ready LEMON SAUCE:
- Make ready 4 tablespoon honey
- Prepare 5 tsp sugar
- Get 200 ml water
- Prepare Lemon zest, from 2 lemons
- Get 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. Chinese Takeout Lemon Chicken Chinese Takeout Lemon Chicken. Chinese Lemon Chicken is a close match to the super popular Orange chicken in flavor but not presentation. 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.
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.
Chinese Lemon Chicken is a close match to the super popular Orange chicken in flavor but not presentation. 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. 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. The lemon sauce was absolutely divine; not sickly sweet as in Chinese restaurants but light, clear with a rich citrus flavor.
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