Dish: China Lemon Chicken

By Rogelio Scroggs


Please excuse the delay in posting this recipe. I figure that by now everyone needs to be back from Christmas trip. At any rate, most of you know that my Chinese father-in-law is an outstanding chef who taught me the way to make a few dishes when he visited us several months ago. My father-in-law actually cooked a number of dishes with me inside the kitchen, but for many on the dishes, like this one particular, he simply gave me some components to use and I figured out the ratios. This dish, although seemingly really basic, proved most elusive! It took four tries just before I lastly came up with some thing excellent. The dish has a robust lemon flavor and is slightly sweet and tangy. Hope you get pleasure from it

P.S. Am now functioning on a Szechuan Chicken dish.

4 to 6 whole breast halves (skin included) 1 cup water 1/2 cup LOW SODIUM chicken broth 1/4 freshly squeezed lemon juice 1/4 cup plus two tablespoons granulated sugar four teaspoons ginger, finely grated (the finer the greater) 1/2 teaspoon salt**

** I decided to utilize a bit salt instead of soy sauce I initially had in recipe. The third time I made recipe, sauce was slightly darker than I wanted it to become.

Ingredients utilised to fry chicken Cornstarch Oil Eggs

Mix sauce components (every little thing except cornstarch, oil and eggs) a minimum of several hours just before making this dish to let flavors to mix. I did not do that the first time I made this dish and it just doesn't taste the identical! Rub some salt (to taste - amongst 1/4 and 1/2 teaspoon.per breast) on the breasts so that the thicker meat on breasts may have a great flavor. In the event you don't do that, you will have a tasty sauce along with the meat on the surface of chicken will taste great, but inner part will be extremely bland. Last time I produced this I also utilized a little of garlic powder (can mix in with salt about 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon total). Chicken should be salted with garlic and salt mixture At the least 12 hours, preferably 24 hours in advance to let maximum penetration of flavors.

Spot a superb level of shortening or even a combination of shortening and liquid vegetable oil in wok or deep fryer. Wait until you might have breaded your chicken just before heating shortening. Subsequent, beat two eggs with about 1 1/2 cups water. After that, add about 2 tablespoon vegetable. oil to mixture and beat lightly. You happen to be now ready to bread chicken breasts with cornstarch. Dip every breast in cornstarch making certain it is thoroughly covered. Lightly shake off excess cornstarch and dip in egg mixture. Let breasts to drip excess liquid just before re-dipping in cornstarch mixture. This time, you need a superb coating, equivalent to that of crispy beef--solid coating , but not too thick. Set aside breaded breasts and heat oil. Oil must be heated to 360 degrees. You do not have to be precise, but oil should be Great AND HOT, but not so hot that the batter on chicken may have a burned off-flavor from excess temp. for the duration of frying cycle. Depending around the size of the fryer or wok, I'd probably fry 2--definitely no greater than three breasts at a time. To fry greater than that would danger excess oil penetration since of a slowed oil temp. recovery. Fry breasts for about 12 minutes, or slightly longer should you be frying extremely massive breasts. If you uncover that breasts are browning also swiftly throughout fry cycle, you are able to turn flame down after breasts have fried
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for about six minutes. By that time, there should be a good crispy shell to shield chicken from oil penetration. Shortly after you have began frying chicken, heat up sauce and allow to simmer to get a minute or so before adding about 1 1/2 tablespoons (approximation) cornstarch mixed with water. Once sauce thickens, add about 2 tablespoon hot oil and mix nicely. Take away sauce from fire and set aside.

When fried chicken breasts are done, let them to set for about 2 minutes to make sure meat closest to bone is totally cooked.

Subsequent chop each and every chicken breast into about 3-4 pieces and pour some of lemon sauce (to taste) more than chicken. Remaining sauce can be used to dip fried chicken pieces.

Chicken could be served over white rice.




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