Easiest Way to Prepare Ultimate Chinese Lemon Chicken

Chinese Lemon Chicken.

You can have Chinese Lemon Chicken using 24 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Chinese Lemon Chicken

1. You need 500 g of chicken breast, cut into bite-size pieces.
2. You need of Vegetable oil for frying.
3. It's of Fried red capsicum for garnish.
4. You need Slice of lemon for garnish.
5. Prepare of chicken marinate.
6. Prepare 3/4 tsp of salt.
7. Prepare 1/2 of egg white.
8. Prepare 1/2 tsp of white pepper.
9. You need 3/4 teaspoon of sugar.
10. You need 2 teaspoon of chinese cooking wine.
11. Prepare 1 tablespoon of light soy sauce.
12. Prepare 1 tablespoon of corn starch.
13. Prepare of coating flour mix.
14. Prepare 100 g of corn flour.
15. You need 100 g of plain flour.
16. You need 1 teaspoon of baking powder.
17. Prepare 1/2 tsp of salt.
18. It's of LEMON SAUCE:.
19. You need 4 tablespoon of honey.
20. It's 5 tsp of sugar.
21. You need 200 ml of water.
22. Prepare of Lemon zest, from 2 lemons.
23. Prepare 2 tsp of corn starch.
24. It's 3 tbsp of lemon juice.

Chinese Lemon Chicken step by step

1. For marinate the chicken: Cut the chicken breast into boneless bite-size..
2. Add salt, egg white, white pepper, sugar, Shaoxing wine, light soy sauce, and cornstarch. Mix well..
3. Marinate for at least 2 hours or overnight in the refrigerator..
4. For Coating the chicken for deep frying: Combine corn flour, plain flour, baking powder and salt as flour mix.
5. Add the flour mix to the chicken pieces. Add more if it is insufficient to cover all the chicken. Any excess flour will fall off from the chicken..
6. Shake off the excess flour. Deep fried in hot oil at 180°C/350°F for four minutes or when the color turns golden brown..
7. Remove the chicken from the oil. Drain the oil on a kitchen towel and set aside..
8. For making the lemon sauce: Place the sugar, constarch and water in a small pot or saucepan. Remove it when the sugar is dissolved, the sauce thickens and turns translucent..
9. Set aside until it returns to room temperature..
10. Add the honey, lemon juice, lemon zest to the cornstarch mixture that has cool down to room temperature. Mix well..
11. Place the chicken on a large piece of lettuce..
12. Drizzle the sauce on the chicken. Garnish with fried red capsicum and slices lemon..