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Recipe: Chinese Lemon Chicken Breast

By Stacy Doody


Please excuse the delay in posting this recipe. I figure that by now every person ought to be back from Christmas holiday. At any rate, the majority of you realize that my Chinese father-in-law is definitely an outstanding chef who taught me how you can make several dishes when he visited us a number of months ago. My father-in-law actually cooked a number of dishes with me inside the kitchen, but for many from the dishes, which includes this a single, he basically gave me some components to work with and I figured out the ratios. This dish, even though seemingly very straightforward, proved most elusive! It took four tries prior to I lastly came up with some thing excellent. The dish features a sturdy lemon flavor and is slightly sweet and tangy. Hope you enjoy it

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

4 to six complete breast halves (skin incorporated) 1 cup water 1/2 cup LOW SODIUM chicken broth 1/4 freshly squeezed lemon juice 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons granulated sugar four teaspoons ginger, finely grated (the finer the better) 1/2 teaspoon salt**

** I decided to work with 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 be.

Ingredients utilised to fry chicken Cornstarch Oil Eggs

Mix sauce components (everything except cornstarch, oil and eggs) a minimum of a number of hours prior to producing this dish to allow flavors to mix. I did not do that the very first time I made this dish and it just doesn't taste the same! Rub some salt (to taste - amongst 1/4 and 1/2 teaspoon.per breast) around the breasts so that the thicker meat on breasts will have a great flavor. If you don't do that, you'll have a tasty sauce and the meat around the surface of chicken will taste good, but inner component will probably be extremely bland. Last time I produced this I also used a little of garlic powder (can mix in with salt about 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon total). Chicken needs to be salted with garlic and salt mixture At the very least 12 hours, preferably 24 hours in advance to allow maximum penetration of flavors.

Place an excellent volume of shortening or a combination of shortening and liquid vegetable oil in wok or deep fryer. Wait till you've got breaded your chicken prior to heating shortening. Subsequent, beat two eggs with about 1 1/2 cups water. Following that, add about two tablespoon vegetable. oil to mixture and beat lightly. You happen to be now prepared to bread chicken breasts with cornstarch. Dip every single breast in cornstarch making certain it is completely covered. Lightly shake off excess cornstarch and dip in egg mixture. Allow breasts to drip excess liquid ahead of re-dipping in cornstarch mixture. This time, you desire a great coating, similar 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 don't have to be precise, but oil should be Good AND HOT, but not so hot that the batter on chicken will have a burned off-flavor from excess temp. throughout frying cycle. Depending around the size of your fryer or wok, I'd probably fry 2--definitely no greater than 3 breasts at a time. To fry more than that would danger excess oil penetration simply because of a slowed oil temp. recovery. Fry breasts for about 12 minutes, or slightly longer if you are frying really large breasts. In case you uncover that breasts are browning too swiftly in the course of fry cycle, you can turn flame down following breasts have fried for about six minutes. By that time, there must be a great crispy shell to safeguard chicken from oil penetration. Shortly soon after you might have started frying chicken, heat up sauce and let to simmer for 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. Remove sauce from fire and set aside.

When fried chicken breasts are carried out, let them to set for about 2 minutes to ensure meat closest to bone is fully cooked.

Subsequent chop each chicken breast into about 3-4 pieces and pour a few of lemon sauce (to taste) more than chicken. Remaining sauce could be employed to dip fried chicken pieces.

Chicken may be served more than white rice.




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