Delicious Lemon Chicken Recipe: Zesty Flavor for Easy Weeknight Dinners

Posted on May 01, 2016

lemon chicken

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lemon chicken

Lemon chicken

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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
10 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Course Chicken, Main Course
Cuisine Any

Ingredients
  

  • 2 chicken breasts diced into long strips
  • 2 spring onions sliced into thin strips, put into ice & water to allow to curl
  • 1 cup corn flour reserve a tbsp of the cornflour to make the slurry
  • Zest of 2 lemons
  • Lemon juice from the 2 lemons
  • 3 tbsp honey
  • 2 tbsp sesame seeds toasted
  • basmati rice cook from your packet directions

Instructions
 

  • Cook your rice from the directions on the packet.
  • With cornflour in a bowl, dry your chicken with paper towel and then coat chicken in cornflour and shake off excess cornflour.
    With a deep pan fill with oil 2/3 full.
    Heat oil then cook chicken in batches until it is golden in colour.
  • Drain onto paper towel and finish cooking the rest of the chicken.
    Once chicken is cooked clean out pan and then make the sauce.
  • Toast the sesame seeds in the pan, make sure not to burn them, about 10-20 seconds.
    Remove from heat then add juice from the 2 lemons.
    Add 3 tbsp honey and cook on medium heat then make a slurry with 1tbsp cornflour and 2tbsp water, mix and then add to the pan and mix.
    Add the cooked chicken and mix well.
    Serve on a bed of cooked rice and garnish with spring onion curls.

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