Chinese Lemon Chicken

Chinese Lemon Chicken

Ingrediants:

For chicken
Boneless chicken cut into small pieces ½ kg
Soy sauce 1 tea spoon
Salt to taste
Egg 1
Lemon Juice ½ tea spoon
White pepper ½ tea spoon
All purpose flour ½ cup
Bread crumbs ¼ cup
Salt to taste
Vegetable oil for frying
For sauce
Sugar 3 table spoon
Chicken broth 1 cup
Cornstarch 1 table spoon
Lemon juice 2 table spoon
Salt to taste
Lemon zest ½ tea spoon
Vegetable oil 2 table spoon
Yellow food colour (optional) a pinch
For garnishing
Slices of Lemon 2

Instructions

  1. Place chicken pieces into a bowl and mix them with soy sauce and salt. Cover and marinate in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
  2. Beat egg with white pepper, lemon juice and baking powder and keep aside.
  3. Mix all purpose flour with bread crumbs and keep it dry in a plate.
  4. Now take the marinated chicken pieces, dip them into egg mixture and coat them in bread crumbs – all purpose flour mixture.
  5. Keep them in refrigerator for 15 minutes.
  6. Heat oil and deep-fry in batches until chicken is fully cooked. Drain out on a paper towels and set aside.

For Sauce

  • 1. Now, to make sauce combine sugar, cornstarch, chicken broth, lemon juice, lemon zest, food colour and salt. Mix until well combined.
  • 2. Heat 2 tablespoons of oil and stir in the lemon sauce mixture and heat until well mixed and sauce becomes clear.
  • 3. Remove it from flame.

How to proceed

  • 1. Take hot fried chicken pieces into a plate.
  • 2. Pour the sauce over the fried chicken.
  • 3. Garnish it with lemon slices and serve hot.

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