Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, chinese lemon chicken. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Chinese Lemon Chicken is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Chinese Lemon Chicken is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have chinese lemon chicken using 24 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Chinese Lemon Chicken:
- Prepare 500 g chicken breast, cut into bite-size pieces
- Take Vegetable oil for frying
- Make ready Fried red capsicum for garnish
- Prepare Slice lemon for garnish
- Prepare chicken marinate
- Take 3/4 tsp salt
- Prepare 1/2 egg white
- Take 1/2 tsp white pepper
- Take 3/4 teaspoon sugar
- Prepare 2 teaspoon chinese cooking wine
- Take 1 tablespoon light soy sauce
- Prepare 1 tablespoon corn starch
- Prepare coating flour mix
- Make ready 100 g corn flour
- Get 100 g plain flour
- Get 1 teaspoon baking powder
- Make ready 1/2 tsp salt
- Get LEMON SAUCE:
- Get 4 tablespoon honey
- Prepare 5 tsp sugar
- Get 200 ml water
- Take Lemon zest, from 2 lemons
- Prepare 2 tsp corn starch
- Get 3 tbsp lemon juice
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.
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