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Chinese Lemon Chicken Recipe

 ·  ☕ 4 min read  ·  ✍️ Olivia Lambert

Chinese Lemon Chicken
Chinese Lemon Chicken

Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, chinese lemon chicken. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

This Lemon Chicken is an easy, crispy and delicious dish that’s sweet and savory, balanced with tangy flavor. Like most types of Chinese chicken, the chicken is first to cut into small chunks, battered, and then deeply fried and covered with a sweet lemon sauce. I do have a confession to make. Chinese Lemon Chicken made with crispy fried chicken covered in an authentic, fresh lemon sauce.

Chinese Lemon Chicken is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Chinese Lemon Chicken is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

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

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

Bring the mixture to a boil. 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. Lemon Chicken - easy and crispy chicken with tangy and sweet lemon sauce. This homemade Chinese lemon chicken recipe from James Martin is quick, easy and delicious.

Instructions 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.
  13. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

Lemon Chicken - easy and crispy chicken with tangy and sweet lemon sauce. This homemade Chinese lemon chicken recipe from James Martin is quick, easy and delicious. Drain the chicken over a heatproof bowl, set the chicken to one side, allow the oil to cool and discard. This easy Chinese lemon chicken recipe requires simple ingredients. It’s sweet and tangy and served with rice or noodles.

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