Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, chinese lemon chicken. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Chinese Lemon Chicken is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Chinese Lemon Chicken is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have chinese lemon chicken using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Chinese Lemon Chicken:
- Prepare big chicken breasts(for family of 4)
- Take table spoons soy sauce
- Make ready salt
- Get table spoons black pepper
- Get cumin
- Get eggs
- Get regular or corn flour
- Take Sause
- Get lemon zest
- Get Couple of lemon(slices)
- Make ready tea spoons honey
- Take tea spoons sugar
- Prepare salt
- Make ready lemon juice
- Make ready table spoons of slurry(flour mixed with water)
- Make ready chicken stock
- Get table spoons olive oil
- Prepare Sesame seeds
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. Some chefs like to leave the bone on as well and cut the chicken into small chunks.
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.
Asian prefers chicken thigh over breast meat. Some chefs like to leave the bone on as well and cut the chicken into small chunks. 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. Fry in batches, being careful not to overcrowd your pan or wok, until golden, crispy and cooked through.
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