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Lemon Chicken
Serves 4
Easy
Total time:
Quick and easy, chinese style, lemon chicken. It is even tastier than a shop bought, lemon chicken ready meal. The lemon sauce can be adjusted to suit your taste
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- 4 chicken breasts, diced & cornflour to coat
- 2 bunches spring onions
- 2 green peppers
- 4 lemons, juiced & zested (reserve a little lemon juice & half lemon zest to add to pan with chicken)
- 1/2 litre chicken stock
- 4 tbsp sugar
- 2 tbsp cornflour
- Rice to serve
Method
step 1
Coat diced chicken with cornflour & fry with a little oil until cooked and well browned. Set aside and keep warmstep 2
Put rice on to cookstep 3
Chop spring onions finely & slice green pepper into stripsstep 4
To make lemon sauce, put lemon juice in saucepan with chicken stock & sugar. Heat gentlystep 5
Mix cornflour with small amount of waterstep 6
Add cornflour paste to lemon sauce and warm through, sauce will thicken slightly. Add more sugar to taste if required. Add lemon zest at the endstep 7
Just before rice finishes cooking, fry spring onions & peppers over high heat, It is best if peppers retain their crunchiness, so only cook for a few minutes at most. Add chicken back to pan, along with reserved lemon juice & zeststep 8
Pile chicken mix onto a bed of rice and divide sauce between servings. (We serve the sauce in a jug so everyone can help themselves)
