Chinese Lemon Chicken

Source : 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 C...

PreTime
more Minutes
CookTime
a few Minutes
Yield
Some Servings

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at : November 6, 2025

Step:

  1. For marinate the chicken: Cut the chicken breast into boneless bite-size.

  2. Add salt, egg white, white pepper, sugar, Shaoxing wine, light soy sauce, and cornstarch. Mix well.

  3. Marinate for at least 2 hours or overnight in the refrigerator.

  4. For Coating the chicken for deep frying: Combine corn flour, plain flour, baking powder and salt as flour mix

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. Remove the chicken from the oil. Drain the oil on a kitchen towel and set aside.

  8. 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.

  9. Set aside until it returns to room temperature.

  10. Add the honey, lemon juice, lemon zest to the cornstarch mixture that has cool down to room temperature. Mix well.

  11. Place the chicken on a large piece of lettuce.

  12. Drizzle the sauce on the chicken. Garnish with fried red capsicum and slices lemon.


Ingredients

  1. 500 g chicken breast, cut into bite-size pieces
  2. Vegetable oil for frying
  3. Fried red capsicum for garnish
  4. Slice lemon for garnish
  5. chicken marinate
  6. 3/4 tsp salt
  7. 1/2 egg white
  8. 1/2 tsp white pepper
  9. 3/4 teaspoon sugar
  10. 2 teaspoon chinese cooking wine
  11. 1 tablespoon light soy sauce
  12. 1 tablespoon corn starch
  13. coating flour mix
  14. 100 g corn flour
  15. 100 g plain flour
  16. 1 teaspoon baking powder
  17. 1/2 tsp salt
  18. LEMON SAUCE:
  19. 4 tablespoon honey
  20. 5 tsp sugar
  21. 200 ml water
  22. Lemon zest, from 2 lemons
  23. 2 tsp corn starch
  24. 3 tbsp lemon juice

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