Saturday, July 20, 2013

Dish: Chinese Lemon Chicken Breast

By Kristofer Nishimoto


Please excuse the delay in posting this recipe. I figure that by now everyone needs to be back from Christmas holiday. At any rate, the majority of you realize that my Chinese father-in-law is definitely an excellent chef who taught me how to make a couple of dishes when he visited us a few months ago. My father-in-law truly cooked several dishes with me inside the kitchen, but for many from the dishes, including this 1, he basically gave me some components to work with and I figured out the ratios. This dish, despite the fact that seemingly very straightforward, proved most elusive! It took 4 tries prior to I finally came up with anything good. The dish features a strong lemon flavor and is slightly sweet and tangy. Hope you appreciate it

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

four to six 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 4 teaspoons ginger, finely grated (the finer the much better) 1/2 teaspoon salt**

** I decided to utilize a little salt instead of soy sauce I originally had in recipe. The third time I made recipe, sauce was slightly darker than I wanted it to become.

Components used to fry chicken Cornstarch Oil Eggs

Mix sauce ingredients (every thing except cornstarch, oil and eggs) at the very least a number of hours before generating this dish to let flavors to mix. I didn't do this the first time I created this dish and it just does not taste precisely the same! Rub some salt (to taste - amongst 1/4 and 1/2 teaspoon.per breast) around the breasts so that the thicker meat on breasts may have a great flavor. In case you never do that, you will have a tasty sauce and the meat on the surface of chicken will taste good, but inner part will probably be extremely bland. Last time I created this I also utilized a bit of garlic powder (can mix in with salt about 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon total). Chicken ought to be salted with garlic and salt mixture At least 12 hours, preferably 24 hours ahead of time to enable maximum penetration of flavors.

Place an excellent level of shortening or perhaps a mixture of shortening and liquid vegetable oil in wok or deep fryer. Wait until you might have breaded your chicken just before heating shortening. Next, beat two eggs with about 1 1/2 cups water. Right after that, add about two tablespoon vegetable. oil to mixture and beat lightly. You happen to be now ready to bread chicken breasts with cornstarch. Dip each and every breast in cornstarch ensuring it really is completely covered. Lightly shake off excess cornstarch and dip in egg mixture. Enable breasts to drip excess liquid ahead of re-dipping in cornstarch mixture. This time, you desire a superb coating, comparable to that of crispy beef--solid coating , but not too thick. Set aside breaded breasts and heat oil. Oil must be heated to 360 degrees. You do not need to be exact, but oil needs to be Very good AND HOT, but not so hot that the batter on chicken may have a burned off-flavor from excess temp. throughout frying cycle. Depending on the size of the fryer or wok, I would probably fry 2--definitely no more than 3 breasts at a time. To fry greater than that would threat excess oil penetration due to the fact of a slowed oil temp. recovery. Fry breasts for about 12 minutes, or slightly longer if you're frying really large breasts. If you uncover that breasts are browning also speedily during fry cycle, you'll be able to turn flame down soon after breasts have fried
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for about six minutes. By that time, there must be a good crispy shell to protect chicken from oil penetration. Shortly right after you've began frying chicken, heat up sauce and let to simmer for a minute or so ahead of adding about 1 1/2 tablespoons (approximation) cornstarch mixed with water. When sauce thickens, add about 2 tablespoon hot oil and mix properly. Remove sauce from fire and set aside.

When fried chicken breasts are carried out, permit them to set for about 2 minutes to make sure meat closest to bone is totally cooked.

Next chop every chicken breast into about 3-4 pieces and pour a few of lemon sauce (to taste) more than chicken. Remaining sauce can be employed to dip fried chicken pieces.

Chicken could be served more than white rice.




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