Easiest Way to Prepare Super Quick Homemade Chinese Lemon Chicken

Chinese Lemon Chicken. The key ingredients for Chinese lemon chicken Chicken: breast versus thigh meat. 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.

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. The first step to making Chinese lemon chicken is to batter and fry your chicken pieces.

Hey everyone, it's me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, chinese lemon chicken. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Chinese Lemon Chicken is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It's easy, it's quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Chinese Lemon Chicken is something that I have loved my entire life.

The key ingredients for Chinese lemon chicken Chicken: breast versus thigh meat. 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.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook chinese lemon chicken using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients - Chinese Lemon Chicken:

1. Give 2-3 for big chicken breasts(for family of 4).
2. Need 4 for table spoons soy sauce.
3. Give 1 table spoon - salt.
4. Require 2 - table spoons black pepper.
5. Prepare 1 table spoon of cumin.
6. Provide 2 of eggs.
7. You need 1 cup of regular or corn flour.
8. Prepare - Sause.
9. Prepare 1 tea spoon of lemon zest.
10. Require for Couple of lemon(slices).
11. Prepare 2 - tea spoons honey.
12. Require 2 tea spoons sugar.
13. Require 1 table spoon salt.
14. You need 1/4 cup for lemon juice.
15. Prepare 3 - table spoons of slurry(flour mixed with water).
16. Prepare 2 cups for chicken stock.
17. Need 2 for table spoons olive oil.
18. You need for Sesame seeds.

I use chunks of boneless skinless chicken breasts, but chicken thighs will also work just fine. The chicken pieces are dipped in a seasoned egg mixture, then coated in a blend of cornstarch and flour. Dip the chicken pieces into the egg mixture then cook in the hot oil until golden brown, turning as needed. Remove with a slotted spoon and drain on paper towels.

Chinese Lemon Chicken steps:

1. 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..
2. Next day, add 2 eggs,and the flour and mix them. Put the chicken back in the fridge for about 15-20minutes..
3. Meanwhile the chicken is in the the fridge, start boiling the oil as it takes time..
4. Now fry the chicken in a deep pan and put it on the side untill sause is ready..
5. 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..
6. 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..
7. Use a colander to keep the sause without any lemon pieces/zest. The sause is ready..

Place the chicken in a serving dish and top with the sliced green onions. Pour the sauce evenly over the top of the chicken. 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. To make this Chinese Lemon Chicken recipe, bite-size chicken gets tossed in a simple ONE STEP batter then coated in panko, baked or fried then enveloped in a sticky, sweet and tangy. multidimensional lemon sauce that will have you drooling.

So that's going to wrap this up for this special food chinese lemon chicken recipe. Thank you very much for reading. I'm sure you will make this at home. There is gonna be more interesting food in home recipes coming up. Remember to bookmark this page in your browser, and share it to your family, colleague and friends. Thank you for reading. Go on get cooking!