Chinese Lemon Chicken

Recipe of Chinese Lemon Chicken is very simple and is easy to make. It requires limited numbers of ingredients to get done. The best part of the recipe is that it gets prepared very quickly without investing much effort.

Chinese Chicken recipes are my all-time favourites and Lemon Chicken is one of them. Though I am from India, but our country has a huge fascination for Chinese food. In fact, the Indo-Chinese cuisine is the symbol of love and acceptance of both the countries cuisine’s unbeatable taste.

I always had the desire to prepare this dish at home which will exactly taste like takeout. I have experimented a lot with this dish to come up with the perfect restaurant style taste. Finally, I got the perfect recipe to prepare a perfect Chinese Lemon Chicken.

Now my family loves my Chinese Lemon Chicken Recipe and does not allow me to order it from outside. It has become one of my popular appetizers for any family get together. It is a perfect combination of taste and health which you can happily serve to everyone.

To prepare perfect Chinese Lemon Chicken, few things need to be taken care off. I have tried to cover all the steps to find you the best result of the dish.

Chinese Lemon Chicken Recipe with step by step photos and instructions have been provided in the ‘Instructions’ section of the recipe.

How to make Chinese Lemon Chicken?

For Chinese Lemon Chicken Healthy, we always need to take the healthiest part of the chicken i.e. breast pieces. Always use boneless and skin off breast pieces for the best result of the recipe.

One of the important parts of the Lemon Chicken Chinese recipe is to marinate the chicken properly. I have marinated it with salt, black pepper, soya sauce, corn starch, lemon juice, white vinegar and egg. I have marinated the chicken for twenty minutes.

In the authentic preparation, Chinese Shaoxing wine is used to marinate the chicken but I have skipped it. Many people do not prefer to use wine in cooking. So, I have prepared the dish so that everyone can eat and prepare it. I have substituted the Chinese Shaoxing wine with white vinegar.

For the crispy coating of the Lemon Chicken I have used the mixture of all-purpose flour, cornflour, baking powder and salt. This combination of flour will give you a perfectly crisp chicken fry.

I put the marinated chicken pieces in the flour mixture and coated them for deep frying. In restaurants, these chicken pieces are fried twice. Once, all of the chicken pieces are fried, they repeat the process once again. This process makes the chicken crispier.

But sometimes it become difficult to follow this step at home. For that I have another solution for you. If you fry the chicken fully and perfectly to deep golden-brown colour at once, then it hardly matters after it gets coated with the Lemon sauce.

For the Lemon sauce of the Lemon with Chicken, I have added sugar, salt, lemon juice, honey, cornflour and the hero of the sauce lemon zest in water. I mixed all the ingredients together and then boiled it to the desired consistency to make the sweet & tangy lemony sauce. Each ingredient is equally important and has its own importance in the sauce. The cornflour gives thickness to the sauce whereas Honey makes the sauce both sticky and sweet at the same time. Lemon zest gives an extraordinary lively lemony flavour to the sauce.

Ingredients:

• 350 Grams Chicken breast, boneless, skin off & cut into pieces
• 1 Egg
• ½ Lemon juice
• ½ tablespoon Corn-starch
• ½ teaspoon Soya sauce
• ½ teaspoon White vinegar
• ½ teaspoon crushed Black pepper
• ¾ teaspoon Salt

• 1 cup All-purpose flour
• ¼ cup Cornflour
• 1 teaspoon Baking powder
• ½ teaspoon Salt

• ½ cup Water
• 1 Lemon, freshly squeezed juice
• 1 tablespoon Lemon Zest
• 4-5 tablespoons Sugar (Quantity may vary according to taste)
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ¾ tablespoon Corn-starch

To Marinate the Chicken
1. First wash and clean the Chicken breast fillets and cut them into medium pieces.
2. Transfer the Chicken pieces into a mixing bowl.
   

3. Add Salt, black Pepper into the bowl and mix it nicely.
   
   

4. Squeeze half lemon into the mixing bowl.
   

5. Add Soya sauce, an Egg, white vinegar and mix them nicely.
   
   

6. At the end, add corn-starch into the chicken and mix it evenly and thoroughly.
   
   

7. Cover the bowl and allow the Chicken to get marinated for an hour.To crispy fry the Chicken
   
8. Take a large bowl and add all-purpose flour into it.
   

9. Add cornflour, baking powder, salt into the bowl and mix them thoroughly.
   
   
   

10. Put the marinated Chicken pieces (Step 7) into the flour and coat them nicely.
    

    Tip: You can use kitchen tongs to coat the marinated Chicken into the flour. This will help you to keep your hand nice and clean.
    

11. On the other hand, take a pan on flame.
12. Add oil into the pan to deep fry the Chicken pieces.
13. Once the oil is hot, add the coated Chicken pieces into the oil.
    
    

    Tip: Make sure there is enough space in the pan so that the chicken pieces do not stick to each other.
    

14. Fry them in medium high flame for 3-4 minutes on each side until the Chicken pieces become golden brown in colour.
    

15. Then take the crispy Chicken pieces out with the help of a Chinese strainer ladle.
    

16. Put the kitchen tissues on a plate and then transfer the Chicken pieces on to the plate. The kitchen tissues will help to soak the excess oil of the deep-fried chicken pieces.
    

    To prepare the sauce
    

17. Add water into a sauce pan.
    

18. Then add lemon juice, sugar and salt into the saucepan and give a nice stir.
    
    
    

19. Add lemon zest, honey and mix them nicely.
    
    

20. At the end, add corn-starch and mix it quickly to make sure no lumps are formed.
    

21. Put the flame in low and stir the sauce for 2-3 minutes.
22. Then put the flame in medium high and let the sauce boil.
23. Cook the sauce until it gets the perfect consistency and then switch off the flame.
    

24. Transfer the crispy chicken (Step 16) on a serving plate and pour the lemon sauce over the Chicken pieces.