How to Royal Tasty Asian Lemon Chicken

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How to Royal Tasty Asian Lemon Chicken Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Asian Lemon Chicken. The key ingredients for Chinese lemon chicken Chicken: breast versus thigh meat. You can use either chicken breast or thigh meat for the Chinese lemon chicken. Cut the chicken breast into boneless bite-size, either with the skin on or removed.

Not too much sweet and not too much vinegar.

This lemon chicken makes for a great take-out fake-out, pair it with homemade egg drop soup, some delicious easy fried rice, and these pineapple egg rolls for a complete meal.

Made with a light and crispy coating, and covered in a flavorful sweet, savory and tangy lemon sauce.

You can cook Asian Lemon Chicken using 14 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Asian Lemon Chicken

  1. You need of . 200 grams boneless skinless chicken thighs cut into bite size.

  2. You need of . 1 tbsp light soy sauce.

  3. It’s of . A pinch of salt and pepper.

  4. Prepare of . 1 tbsp sesame oil.

  5. Prepare of . 1 egg white.

  6. Prepare of . ½ cup cornstarch.

  7. It’s of . 2 tbsp light soy sauce.

  8. You need of . 2 tbsp rice vinegar.

  9. Prepare of . 3 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice (about ½ lemon).

  10. It’s of . 4 tbsp sugar.

  11. You need of . 1 tbsp lemon zest.

  12. You need of . ½ medium size onion, sliced.

  13. It’s of . 2 sliced of lemon.

  14. Prepare of . 1 tbsp cornstarch slurry (1 tbsp cornstarch + 1 tbsp water).

Stove top, bake or air fryer instructions plus recipe video!

This easy Chinese lemon chicken recipe requires simple ingredients.

It's sweet and tangy and served with rice or noodles.

One of my FAVORITE things to order at a small Chinese restaurant back home in Canada was Chinese lemon chicken.

Asian Lemon Chicken step by step

    1. Marinade the chicken with egg white, soy sauce, sesame oil, salt and pepper for 30 minutes.
    1. Meanwhile, add the soy sauce, rice vinegar, lemon juice into a mixing bowl and set it aside.
    1. Coat the marinated chicken with the cornstarch and deep fry them. Set it aside..
    1. Stir fry the onion until soften. Add ¼ cup of water and let it reduced for about 2 minutes.
    1. Pour the lemon mixture, add the sugar, lemon zest and the sliced of lemon. Cook it for about 2 minutes. Taste and adjust to your liking..
    1. Pour the cornstarch slurry and stir it until it thickens. Once it’s thicken, put the chicken in and combine with the sauce..

I don't know why more Asian restaurants don't make this recipe.

It's so hard to find it here in Chicago.

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Heat oil in a medium size frying pan.

The Asian lemon chicken tenders and the teriyaki salmon are honestly my absolute two favorite recipes on this blog!