Chinese Lemon Chicken. This Lemon Chicken is an easy, crispy and delicious dish that's sweet and savory, balanced with tangy flavor. This Chinese lemon chicken is crispy battered chicken breast pieces smothered in a sweet and tangy lemon sauce. A remake of the take out classic that tastes just as good as what you'd get in a.

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. Like most types of Chinese chicken, the chicken is first to cut into small chunks, battered, and then deeply fried and covered with a sweet lemon sauce. I do have a confession to make. You can cook Chinese Lemon Chicken using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Chinese Lemon Chicken

1. You need 2-3 of big chicken breasts(for family of 4).
2. It's 4 of table spoons soy sauce.
3. You need 1 table spoon of salt.
4. It's 2 of table spoons black pepper.
5. You need 1 table spoon of cumin.
6. Prepare 2 of eggs.
7. It's 1 cup of regular or corn flour.
8. It's of Sause.
9. Prepare 1 tea spoon of lemon zest.
10. Prepare of Couple of lemon(slices).
11. Prepare 2 of tea spoons honey.
12. Prepare 2 of tea spoons sugar.
13. It's 1 table spoon of salt.
14. It's 1/4 cup of lemon juice.
15. It's 3 of table spoons of slurry(flour mixed with water).
16. Prepare 2 cups of chicken stock.
17. It's 2 of table spoons olive oil.
18. Prepare of Sesame seeds.

Lemon Chicken - easy and crispy chicken with tangy and sweet lemon sauce. Chinese Lemon Chicken is a traditional Chinese made with chicken cooked in a sweet, sticky, tart lemon sauce. It's typically served with white rice at restaurants. I love lemon anything, so this.

Chinese Lemon Chicken step by step

1. Clean the chicken, cut it into small/medium pieces. Add the seasonings,pepper,salt,cumin,soy sauce and if you prefer to add anything else. Leave it over night in the fridge..
2. Next day, add 2 eggs,and the flour and mix them. Put the chicken back in the fridge for about 15-20minutes..
3. Meanwhile the chicken is in the the fridge, start boiling the oil as it takes time..
4. Now fry the chicken in a deep pan and put it on the side untill sause is ready..
5. Sause, use a small pan. Put the oil, lemon zest, chicken stock (I used the powder)sugar,salt and honey. Mix well. Put the lemon slices and leave the sause to boil for about 30minutes..
6. Remove the lemon slices,add the slurry, i added alittle more flour and keep mixing to make the flour dissolve. Add sesame seeds,and pour the sause on the chicken..
7. Use a colander to keep the sause without any lemon pieces/zest. The sause is ready..

Chinese Lemon Chicken made with crispy fried chicken covered in an authentic, fresh lemon sauce. Lemon chicken is the name of several dishes found in cuisines around the world which include chicken and lemon. This lemon chicken recipe yields tender chicken bites with a dominant flavor of lemon juice, mint and mild Since lemon chicken is a fusion food it pairs well with Indo chinese foods like veg fried rice. This easy Chinese lemon chicken recipe requires simple ingredients. It's sweet and tangy and served with rice or noodles.