Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, lemon chicken. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Lemon Chicken is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Lemon Chicken is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
Lemon chicken is the name of several dishes found in cuisines around the world which include chicken and lemon. In Canadian Chinese cuisine it usually consists of pieces of chicken meat that are sautéed or deep-fried and coated with a thick, sweet lemon-flavored sauce. With this recipe you get perfectly tender, golden brown pan seared chicken breasts that are coated in that quick lemon pan sauce.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook lemon chicken using 9 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Lemon Chicken:
- Prepare 2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts; sliced very thin
- Prepare 1 large jalapeño; thin half moons
- Make ready 1 yellow onion; medium dice
- Get 2 cloves garlic
- Make ready 2 C chicken stock
- Take 1 C lemon juice (freshly squeezed only)
- Take 2 T cornstarch + more for dusting chicken
- Make ready 1/2 C soy sauce
- Take 2 T sesame oil
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Steps to make Lemon Chicken:
- Marinate chicken with soy sauce and sesame oil overnight.
- Pat dry with paper towels.
- Combine stock and lemon juice. Grate the garlic into the mixture and stir.
- Cover chicken with enough corn starch to coat.
- Heat a large saute pan with plenty of oil. This is a pan fry, not a saute.
- Shake off excess cornstarch. Fry chicken in two batches as not to overcrowd the pan. Set chicken aside atop paper towels.
- Add onion and jalapeño. Fry quickly over high heat until onion softens, about 1 minute.
- Add sauce and scrape up the brown bits with a wooden spoon.
- Add chicken. Cook 30 seconds.
- Whisk together cornstarch and water. Pour into the pan while stirring. Cook 1 minute to thicken sauce and reheat chicken.
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