Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, lemon chicken (chinese style). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Chinese Lemon Chicken is a close match to the super popular Orange chicken in flavor but not presentation. A step-by-step picture recipe for Chinese style lemon chicken. Lemon chicken is quite a common dish in Chinese restaurants in India and it's always been one of my favorites.
Lemon chicken (chinese style) is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Lemon chicken (chinese style) is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have lemon chicken (chinese style) using 20 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Lemon chicken (chinese style):
- Get MARINATE
- Take 2 tbsp soy sauce
- Take 1 pinch of salt
- Get BATTER
- Get 1 egg
- Take 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Take 1/4 cup water.
- Make ready 1 pinch of salt
- Prepare 1 pinch of pepper
- Take 3/4 cup corn flour
- Prepare SAUCE
- Make ready 2 tbsp lemon juice
- Take 1/4 cup sugar
- Make ready 3/4 cup chicken broth
- Prepare 1 tbsp corn flour
- Get 2 tbsp butter
- Prepare 3 slice lemon
- Make ready 1 yellow food coloring (optional)
- Take MAIN INGREDIENT
- Make ready 2 skinless, boneless chicken breast (cut into cubes)
This Chinese lemon chicken is crispy battered chicken breast pieces smothered in a sweet and tangy lemon sauce. 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. This is my newly developed Chinese lemon chicken recipe that has been well tested.
Instructions to make Lemon chicken (chinese style):
- Marinate chicken with soy sauce and salt for 30mins.
- Mix all the ingredients for batter. If too runny, add some more corn flour. Mix it so that it will coat the chicken nicely
- Coat the chicken into the batter and fry it until golden brown. Don't overcook. Strain the oil, put it on top of kitchen paper. Wipe it if you hate oily food.
- For the sauce (you can make the sauce 1st while waiting for the chicken) : Melt butter under low heat. Pour chicken broth in.
- When boiling, add lemon juice and sugar.
- Dissolve corn flour with some water, pour inside sauce. Stir until it thicken. Add lemon slices and yellow food coloring (optional). Remove pan from heat.
- Serve with rice and stir fry veggies.
The goal is to create a method with chicken that is crispy even after doused with the sauce, and the outstanding lemon flavor lingers on your palate. 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. This lemon chicken recipe yields tender chicken bites with a dominant flavor of lemon juice, mint and mild spices. Slightly tangy, mildly hot with full of flavors.
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