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Lemon Chicken

Lemon chicken is a popular chicken dish on the Chinese restaurants menu. Actually this dish is Americanized Chinese food dish since lemon is rarely used as cooking ingredients in the mainland China or Asian region. Chinese lemon chicken is deep fried battered chicken pieces coated with sweet sour tangy lemon sauce.

This favorite chicken dish is very easy to make. It seems need a lot of ingredients and preparations but actually very easy. You have no need to order lemon chicken at your Chinese restaurant nearby your house, you can make it at home with some simple and decent ingredients but the result is par to excellence, even better than any Chinese take out lemon chicken. More important you will have healthier lemon chicken dish since it's free of msg and additive/preservative. Crunchy succulent chicken pieces with sour tangy tart lemon sauce make this dish has complex flavor and taste. Sure this dish will be a winner to satisfy your family or guest.

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Lemon Chicken Recipe
Instant Lemon Chicken Sauce/Mix

Chinese style lemon chicken recipes collection

There are a lot of variants Chinese lemon chicken recipes all over the internet. The similarity is all use lemon to flavor the sauce. The differences are cooking methods; deep fry, bake or stir fry; and additional ingredients for fixing sauce such as vinegar, honey, ketchup, lemon zest, etc.

For healthier diet, choose bake or stir fry cooking method, reduce sodium level and add some fiber. Here are some of the best Chinese lemon chicken recipes .

Chinese Lemon Chicken from CDK kitchen, 5* rating: Easy to follow and delicious
Lemon Chicken II: Use Chicken breast and deep fried it as Tempura style.
Chinese Lemon Chicken: Use lemon juice and ketchup to make distinctive lemon sauce.
Lemon Chicken Stir Fry: Use lemon flavor gelatin to make lemon sauce. This recipe is using stir fry method.
Baked Chinese Lemon Chicken Recipe: Healthier alternative for lemon chicken. Bake it !.
Baked lemon chicken with Chinese lemon sauce: Baked lemon chicken with Chinese lemon sauce accent. Great taste.
Lemon chicken and asparagus stir fry: Low calorie lemon chicken stir fry recipe. Use lemon zest to add flavor.

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Other Lemon Chicken Recipes

Try other lemon chicken recipes other than Chinese.

Lemon chicken is popular in the world cuisines. Several regions have claim lemon chicken as their specialty cuisines such as Italian, Spain and American. Each regions have different style of cooking. Here are some of the best lemon chicken recipes other than Chinese style.

Italian lemon butter chicken recipes: Heavy cream, lemon juice and wine are main ingredients for making lemony sauce.
Baked Italian lemon chicken: Use Italian spices and bread crumbs to bake delicious chicken.
Lemon chicken Italian sytle: Use limoncello for marinate and sauce.
Spanish lemon chicken - Pollo al limon: Simple and easy baked lemon chicken recipe.
Lemon garlic chicken - Spain style: Baked lemon chicken season with saffron, garlic and lemon.
Baked lemon chicken (American): Southern style baked lemon chicken
15 minutes garlic lemon chicken: Pan fry lemon chicken. Very easy
Lemon chicken and rice: Combination rice and lemon chicken.
Slow cooker honey lemon chicken: Easy recipe from Rachel Ray.

Lemon Chicken Recipe

Easy to make and the result is superb.

Ingredients:
2 lbs boneless chicken breast, diced into bite pieces

Marinade:
1 egg
1 tbsp corn starch
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp ground white pepper
1 tsp chopped ginger
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1 tbsp oyster sauce

Thickening agent:
1 tbsp corstarch
1 tbsp chicken stock

Batter:
1/4 cup flour
1/4 cup chicken stock
2 tbsp vegetable oil
2 tbsp corn starch
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt

Sauce:
1/4 cup sugar
1/3 cup chicken broth
5 tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp lemon zest
1 tsp dark soy sauce
1 tsp chopped garlic
1 tsp chopped ginger
5 slices lemon

In a mixing bowl, mix chicken, egg, 1 tbsp cornstarch, oyster sauce, ginger, garlic powder, salt and white pepper. Cover and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.

Meanwhile, in a small bowl mix tickening agent.

Mix all of batter ingredients into chicken mixture and stir to form a smooth batter. Heat vegetable oil in a wok. Deep fry chicken pieces about 3 minutes or until light golden brown. Remove from the heat and drain.

In a sauce pan, heat all of sauce ingredients to boiling. Stir in tickening agent mixture. Cook until its thickened. Remove from the heat. Pour sauce over chicken pieces. Garnish with some lemon slices. Serve warm with white rice.

Healthier alternative is use stir fry cooking method for fixing lemon chicken.

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Instant Lemon Chicken Sauce/Mix

If you do not have confident to make your own sauce, these instant sauce mix is good helper

Add lemon zest and lemon slices to develop deep tangy, tart and lemony fragrant to your sauce.

Essential Cooking Tools

Some tools you may need

This Amco Enameled Aluminum Lemon Squeezer is a must to have tools to squeeze good lemon juice for making lemon chicken. This lime juices is easy to use in 3 quick steps and provides pure juice without any seeds or pulp.