Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, chinese lemon chicken. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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.
Chinese Lemon Chicken is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Chinese Lemon Chicken is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have chinese lemon chicken using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Chinese Lemon Chicken:
- Get 2-3 big chicken breasts(for family of 4)
- Make ready 4 table spoons soy sauce
- Make ready 1 table spoon salt
- Get 2 table spoons black pepper
- Prepare 1 table spoon cumin
- Make ready 2 eggs
- Make ready 1 cup regular or corn flour
- Make ready Sause
- Get 1 tea spoon lemon zest
- Prepare Couple of lemon(slices)
- Get 2 tea spoons honey
- Get 2 tea spoons sugar
- Take 1 table spoon salt
- Take 1/4 cup lemon juice
- Take 3 table spoons of slurry(flour mixed with water)
- Prepare 2 cups chicken stock
- Prepare 2 table spoons olive oil
- Get Sesame seeds
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. Place the chicken in a serving dish and top with the sliced green onions. Pour the sauce evenly over the top of the chicken.
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 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. HOW TO MAKE CHINESE LEMON CHICKEN Once your chicken has marinated, pour chicken WITH the marinade out into the corn starch. Coat chicken pieces evenly, massaging the corn starch around the chicken.
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