Lemon chicken 檸檬雞

I love all things sweet and sour and lemon chicken ranks very high on my favourite list. It is such a simple recipe but so very tasty. Beats KFC anytime.If you don't already know a good recipe, this is how I make it. The recipe I like is chicken coated with cornflour (cornstarch) then shallow fried/deep fried. The chicken coating is very crispy and sauce is tangy and flavoursome. I prefer to use boneless chicken breasts for lemon chicken, find the meat quicker to cook, tender and juicy.

 Lemon chicken 檸檬雞

 Ingredients:

 Chicken and marinade

500g chicken breast (2 very large breasts or 3 - 4 smaller breasts, boneless, with or without skin. I like with skin, it's more flavourful)
1 egg white, beaten
1 tsp salt
2 tsp light soy saucepinch of ground pepper
2 tbsp cornflour
about 1/3 cup cornflour for coating
about 1 cup of cooking oil for frying

 Sauce

60 - 70 ml lemon juice
1 tsp fine zest of lemon
1 tsp cornflour
2 tsp custard powder (custard powder gives a lovely yellow colour to the sauce, if you don't like can use cornflour)
2 - 3 tbsp sugar
1 tsp light soy sauce
about 180 - 200ml chicken stock (homemade or use stock cube/bullion)
1 tsp cooking oilslices of lemon for garnish (optional)

 Method:

Mix chicken with marinade. Cornflour is added to the marinade to ensure chicken will coat with enough egg white before coating with dry cornflour. Egg white and cornflour make a very crispy coating. Leave to marinate for about 30 minutes to 1 hour.

Heat the oil in the wok (about 1 inch deep of oil)

Spread about 1/3 cup cornflour on a large plate, coat the chicken with generous layer of cornflour.
When oil is hot fry the chicken pieces at medium high heat, till nice golden brown, hard and crispy both sides. Remove and drain on a rack, can leave in a warm oven up to 30 minutes if you like to serve a little longer. Remove oil and clean wok.

Mix the sauce ingredients together. Cook using small saucepan or wok till thicken, taste if need more lemon juice, sugar or soy, if sauce is too thick can add a bit more water, then stir in 1 tsp of oil. Oil will help the sauce shiny.

Cut the chicken into pieces place on a plate, garnish with lemon slices if prefer, then pour on sauce just before serving.



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