How to Make Perfect Chinese Lemon Chicken

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How to Make Perfect Chinese Lemon Chicken Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Chinese Lemon Chicken. This Lemon Chicken is an easy, crispy and delicious dish that's sweet and savory, balanced with tangy flavor. Asian style crispy lemon chicken with fresh This is my newly developed Chinese lemon chicken recipe that has been well tested. This Chinese lemon chicken is crispy battered chicken breast pieces smothered in a sweet and tangy lemon sauce.

I do have a confession to make.

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.

Chinese Lemon Chicken made with crispy fried chicken covered in an authentic, fresh lemon sauce.

You can cook Chinese Lemon Chicken using 24 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Chinese Lemon Chicken

  1. Prepare of chicken breast, cut into bite-size pieces.

  2. It’s of Vegetable oil for frying.

  3. It’s of Fried red capsicum for garnish.

  4. Prepare of lemon for garnish.

  5. You need of chicken marinate.

  6. It’s of salt.

  7. Prepare of egg white.

  8. Prepare of white pepper.

  9. You need of sugar.

  10. Prepare of chinese cooking wine.

  11. Prepare of light soy sauce.

  12. It’s of corn starch.

  13. You need of coating flour mix.

  14. You need of corn flour.

  15. It’s of plain flour.

  16. You need of baking powder.

  17. It’s of salt.

  18. Prepare of LEMON SAUCE:.

  19. It’s of honey.

  20. It’s of sugar.

  21. You need of water.

  22. You need of Lemon zest, from 2 lemons.

  23. It’s of corn starch.

  24. Prepare of lemon juice.

The ultimate Chinese Lemon Chicken Recipe which is way better than take-out.

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Lemon chicken is the name of several dishes found in cuisines around the world which include chicken and lemon.

Chinese Lemon Chicken instructions

  1. For marinate the chicken: Cut the chicken breast into boneless bite-size..

  2. Add salt, egg white, white pepper, sugar, Shaoxing wine, light soy sauce, and cornstarch. Mix well..

  3. Marinate for at least 2 hours or overnight in the refrigerator..

  4. For Coating the chicken for deep frying: Combine corn flour, plain flour, baking powder and salt as flour mix.

  5. 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..

  6. 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..

  7. Remove the chicken from the oil. Drain the oil on a kitchen towel and set aside..

  8. 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..

  9. Set aside until it returns to room temperature..

  10. Add the honey, lemon juice, lemon zest to the cornstarch mixture that has cool down to room temperature. Mix well..

  11. Place the chicken on a large piece of lettuce..

  12. Drizzle the sauce on the chicken. Garnish with fried red capsicum and slices lemon..

In Canadian Chinese cuisine it usually consists of pieces of chicken meat that are sautéed or deep-fried and coated with a thick, sweet lemon-flavored sauce.

Lemon chicken is quite a common dish in Chinese restaurants in India and it's always been one of my favorites.

Although, I have seen the dish featured here in some Chinese places, it's not as common.

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