How to Prepare Homemade Chinese Lemon Chicken
Chinese Lemon Chicken.
Hey everyone, it's Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I'm gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, chinese lemon chicken. One of my favorites. This time, I'm gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Chinese Lemon Chicken is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it's fast, it tastes delicious. They're nice and they look fantastic. Chinese Lemon Chicken is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have chinese lemon chicken using 24 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chinese Lemon Chicken:
- {Take 500 g of chicken breast, cut into bite-size pieces.
- {Prepare of Vegetable oil for frying.
- {Make ready of Fried red capsicum for garnish.
- {Take Slice of lemon for garnish.
- {Prepare of chicken marinate.
- {Get 3/4 tsp of salt.
- {Take 1/2 of egg white.
- {Get 1/2 tsp of white pepper.
- {Take 3/4 teaspoon of sugar.
- {Make ready 2 teaspoon of chinese cooking wine.
- {Take 1 tablespoon of light soy sauce.
- {Prepare 1 tablespoon of corn starch.
- {Prepare of coating flour mix.
- {Get 100 g of corn flour.
- {Make ready 100 g of plain flour.
- {Take 1 teaspoon of baking powder.
- {Take 1/2 tsp of salt.
- {Take of LEMON SAUCE:.
- {Get 4 tablespoon of honey.
- {Get 5 tsp of sugar.
- {Get 200 ml of water.
- {Prepare of Lemon zest, from 2 lemons.
- {Take 2 tsp of corn starch.
- {Take 3 tbsp of lemon juice.
Instructions 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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