Chinese Style Lemon Chicken
Author: EasyRecipes .
Prep time: 20 mins
Cook time: 30 mins
Total time: 50 mins
This is an excellent lemon sauce. If you have ever ordered lemon chicken at a Chinese restaurant, you probably got a dish like this. You can also use this sauce on fish.
Ingredients
  • 1 tsp sesame oil shopping list
  • 1 tsp canola oil shopping list
  • 1 tsp grated fresh ginger shopping list
  • 2 crushed garlic cloves shopping list
  • the zest of one lemon shopping list
  • 1 cup chicken broth shopping list
  • 2 tsp soy sauce (optional...tastes good but will make lemon sauce a little dark) shopping list
  • the juice of one lemon shopping list
  • 1tbsp brown sugar shopping list
  • 1 tbsp honey shopping list
  • 1 tsp corn starch shopping list
  • OK NOW FOR THE chicken shopping list
  • 2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
Instructions
  1. In a small sauce pan add the first 5 ingredients on low heat for about 3-5 minutes.
  2. add everything else and turn up heat to medium.
  3. Sauce will thicken, it is done.
  4. For the chicken:
  5. Pound chicken with a tenderizer hammer until chicken breasts are about ¼ inch thick.
  6. Heat oil in the skillet over med high heat
  7. Dip chicken in egg, then in breadcrumbs
  8. Put the chicken in skillet and pan fry for about 3 minutes on each side.
  9. OR you can use this same cooking technique with fish (except you won't have to pound the fish)
  10. Keep the heat down to med when cooking fish
  11. Use white,salt-water fish, that is best.
  12. This dish is best served with white rice and peas.
Recipe by Mithila.net at http://www.mithila.net/non-veg-recipes/chinese-style-lemon-chicken-942.html