Lemon chicken recipe

This is a delicious classic recipe of the Chinese cuisine. This recipe is so easy and is perfect. The sauce is sweet and acid and the ginger gives to it a spicy touch. Combines this chicken with white rice and it's ready. Put this recipe inside the menu where you invite your friends to a Chinese dinner. In this case, the chicken is in breadcrumbs but you can also do it in tempura.

Ingredients (2 persons):
2 breast of chicken
2 tablespoons of soy sauce
1 egg
Flour
Bread crumbs
Lemon sauce:
Juice of 2 lemons
A glass of chicken stock
1 and a half tablespoons of sugar
1 teaspoon of salt
3 tablespoons of rice vinegar
A little of ginger
2 teaspoon of Maizena


The first thing you have to do is to marinate the chicken breast in to the soy sauce for 30 minutes. Cover it and reserve in the fridge.

For the lemon sauce, put in a pot the rice vinegar, the chicken stock, the 2 lemons juice, the teaspoon of salt, the 1 and half tablespoon of sugar and a little of ginger. Boil it.

For thickening the sauce, mix Maizena with cold water and add it little by little to the sauce. Be careful with that because the Maizena starts to thicken when the sauce boil. Wait until the sauce start to boil and look the dense of the sauce, if you want it more dense add more Maizena.

Take outside the chicken breast from the soy sauce and flour it, then put it in the egg and finally put in to bread crumb.

Fry the breast in oil in to a medium heat. As you know, the breast are thick, for this, you have to control the heat for to brown it and also to cook inside it. Where the breast start to throw out juice is the moment to take it outside from the pan and reserve in an absorbent paper. Wait 5 minutes before to cut it.

Then cut the chicken breast and cover it with the lemon sauce. You can decorate it with a slice of lemon. Serve it with white rice.