Step-by-Step Guide to Make Ultimate Chinese Lemon Chicken
Chinese Lemon Chicken.
Hey everyone, it's Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, chinese lemon chicken. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Chinese Lemon Chicken is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It's simple, it's quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They're nice and they look wonderful. Chinese Lemon Chicken is something which I've loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. 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:
- {Make ready 500 g of chicken breast, cut into bite-size pieces.
- {Make ready of Vegetable oil for frying.
- {Get of Fried red capsicum for garnish.
- {Prepare Slice of lemon for garnish.
- {Take of chicken marinate.
- {Take 3/4 tsp of salt.
- {Take 1/2 of egg white.
- {Get 1/2 tsp of white pepper.
- {Make ready 3/4 teaspoon of sugar.
- {Take 2 teaspoon of chinese cooking wine.
- {Make ready 1 tablespoon of light soy sauce.
- {Get 1 tablespoon of corn starch.
- {Take of coating flour mix.
- {Get 100 g of corn flour.
- {Take 100 g of plain flour.
- {Prepare 1 teaspoon of baking powder.
- {Prepare 1/2 tsp of salt.
- {Make ready of LEMON SAUCE:.
- {Prepare 4 tablespoon of honey.
- {Get 5 tsp of sugar.
- {Get 200 ml of water.
- {Make ready of Lemon zest, from 2 lemons.
- {Take 2 tsp of corn starch.
- {Take 3 tbsp of 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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