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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Meal: Chinese Lemon Chicken

By Elliott Aman


Please excuse the delay in posting this recipe. I figure that by now every person needs to be back from Christmas holiday. At any rate, the majority of you understand that my Chinese father-in-law is definitely an excellent chef who taught me the best way to make several dishes when he visited us a few months ago. My father-in-law in fact cooked a few dishes with me within the kitchen, but for many on the dishes, like this 1, he simply gave me some components to work with and I figured out the ratios. This dish, despite the fact that seemingly really basic, proved most elusive! It took 4 tries just before I ultimately came up with one thing great. The dish has a robust lemon flavor and is slightly sweet and tangy. Hope you get pleasure from it

P.S. Am now functioning on a Szechuan Chicken dish.

4 to 6 complete breast halves (skin included) 1 cup water 1/2 cup LOW SODIUM chicken broth 1/4 freshly squeezed lemon juice 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons granulated sugar four teaspoons ginger, finely grated (the finer the far better) 1/2 teaspoon salt**

** I decided to utilize a little salt as opposed to soy sauce I initially had in recipe. The third time I produced recipe, sauce was slightly darker than I wanted it to be.

Components utilized to fry chicken Cornstarch Oil Eggs

Mix sauce components (almost everything except cornstarch, oil and eggs) at the least many hours just before creating this dish to let flavors to mix. I didn't do this the very first time I created this dish and it just doesn't taste precisely the same! Rub some salt (to taste - among 1/4 and 1/2 teaspoon.per breast) on the breasts in order that the thicker meat on breasts may have an excellent flavor. Should you never do that, you'll have a tasty sauce and also the meat around the surface of chicken will taste excellent, but inner part will probably be very bland. Final time I made this I also utilized a bit of garlic powder (can mix in with salt about 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon total). Chicken must be salted with garlic and salt mixture At least 12 hours, preferably 24 hours in advance to permit maximum penetration of flavors.

Location a superb level of shortening or even a mixture of shortening and liquid vegetable oil in wok or deep fryer. Wait till you have breaded your chicken just before heating shortening. Next, beat two eggs with about 1 1/2 cups water. Right after that, add about 2 tablespoon vegetable. oil to mixture and beat lightly. You happen to be now ready to bread chicken breasts with cornstarch. Dip every single breast in cornstarch ensuring it is thoroughly covered. Lightly shake off excess cornstarch and dip in egg mixture. Allow breasts to drip excess liquid just before re-dipping in cornstarch mixture. This time, you want a good coating, similar to that of crispy beef--solid coating , but not too thick. Set aside breaded breasts and heat oil. Oil needs to be heated to 360 degrees. You do not have to be exact, but oil must be Excellent AND HOT, but not so hot that the batter on chicken will have a burned off-flavor from excess temp. throughout frying cycle. Depending on the size of your fryer or wok, I'd possibly fry 2--definitely no greater than three breasts at a time. To fry more than that would threat excess oil penetration simply because of a slowed oil temp. recovery. Fry breasts for about 12 minutes, or slightly longer in case you are frying really huge breasts. Should you uncover that breasts are browning also quickly throughout fry cycle, you are able to turn flame down after breasts have fried for about six minutes. By that time, there needs to be a great crispy shell to shield chicken from oil penetration. Shortly following you've got began frying chicken, heat up sauce and permit to simmer to get a minute or so prior to adding about 1 1/2 tablespoons (approximation) cornstarch mixed with water. After sauce thickens, add about two tablespoon hot oil and mix nicely. Remove sauce from fire and set aside.

When fried chicken breasts are done, allow them to set for about 2 minutes to make sure meat closest to bone is fully cooked.

Subsequent chop every single chicken breast into about 3-4 pieces and pour a few of lemon sauce (to taste) over chicken. Remaining sauce could be used to dip fried chicken pieces.

Chicken might be served more than white rice.




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