{"id":191,"date":"2015-01-20T05:15:19","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T05:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/?p=191"},"modified":"2015-02-21T05:24:28","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T05:24:28","slug":"lemon-chicken-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/lemon-chicken-recipe\/","title":{"rendered":"Lemon Chicken Recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-192\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/lemon-chicken.jpg\" alt=\"Lemon Chicken Recipe\" width=\"420\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/lemon-chicken.jpg 420w, http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/lemon-chicken-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A star dish of Chinese restaurants, this is a perfect balance of flavors between the richness of the battered fried chicken and the sweet-sour lemon sauce. There are many brands of lemon sauce in the market but nothing beats making your own. The trick in giving the sauce a yellow color is simply to use a little ground turmeric.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Ingredients:<\/strong><\/span> (Serves 4)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 chicken breasts, skinned<\/li>\n<li>1 egg, lightly beaten<\/li>\n<li>30 ml\/2 tablespoons cornstarch (cornflour)<\/li>\n<li>Vegetable or peanut (groundnut) oil for deep-frying<\/li>\n<li>Salt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>For the sauce:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>45 ml\/3 tablespoons lemon juice<\/li>\n<li>5 ml\/1 teaspoon ground turmeric<\/li>\n<li>15 ml\/1 tablespoon sugar or to taste<\/li>\n<li>15 ml\/1 tablespoon plum sauce<\/li>\n<li>175 ml\/6 fl oz water<\/li>\n<li>5 ml\/1 tablespoon cornstarch (cornflour)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Method:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Slice each chicken breast across the thickest part to give two thin escalopes. Then dip lightly in the beaten egg and coat with cornstarch.<\/p>\n<p>Heat the oil in a wok or large pan and deep-fry the chicken until golden brown. Keep warm.<\/p>\n<p>Mix together all the sauce ingredients, stirring well to avoid lumps. Bring the sauce to a slow simmer in a small pan and cook for 2 minutes. Blend the cornstarch with a little water and add, a little at a time, until the sauce is the consistency of pouring (half-and-half) cream. Season to taste with salt.<\/p>\n<p>Slice the chicken into 2.5 cm\/1 inch strips and place on a serving plate. Pour the sauce over and serve garnished with lemon wedges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A star dish of Chinese restaurants, this is a perfect balance of flavors between the richness of the battered fried chicken and the sweet-sour lemon sauce. There are many brands of lemon sauce in the market but nothing beats making your own. The trick in giving the sauce a yellow color is simply to use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[54,7,4],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recipes","tag-chicken","tag-lemon","tag-recipe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianonlinerecipe.com\/cooking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}