Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, chinese lemon chicken. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Cut the chicken breast into boneless bite-size, either with the skin on or removed. Asian prefers chicken thigh over breast meat. Some chefs like to leave the bone on as well and cut the chicken into small chunks. Whisk soy sauce, egg, lemon juice, rice vinegar, sugar, and hot mustard together in a medium bowl.
Chinese Lemon Chicken is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Chinese Lemon Chicken is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. 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:
- Prepare chicken breast, cut into bite-size pieces
- Make ready Vegetable oil for frying
- Get Fried red capsicum for garnish
- Take lemon for garnish
- Make ready chicken marinate
- Get salt
- Make ready egg white
- Prepare white pepper
- Make ready sugar
- Make ready chinese cooking wine
- Take light soy sauce
- Get corn starch
- Prepare coating flour mix
- Take corn flour
- Prepare plain flour
- Get baking powder
- Take salt
- Make ready LEMON SAUCE:
- Take honey
- Make ready sugar
- Take water
- Prepare Lemon zest, from 2 lemons
- Make ready corn starch
- Take lemon juice
This is why having your own recipe is just as important as having a take-out menu in your kitchen. Lemon 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. While chicken is baking, prepare Chinese Lemon Sauce.
Steps 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.
Just a few ingredients and you'll be glad you didn't pick up the phone and call your favorite delivery spot. While chicken is baking, prepare Chinese Lemon Sauce. Garnish with lemon slices and green onion. 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.
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