Gluten Free Lemon Chicken Recipe

Lemon Chicken With Egg Fried Rice

Sorry about my poor photographic skills, it's hard when you're hungry! This is as close as I've gotten to authentic style Lemon Chicken just like you would order from a Chinese restaurant or take away, minus the gluten of course.

It pretty simple to make and though they may not be the best examples of photographic skill, there's a step by step guide of photos to make it even easier.

Plenty for 2 people if served with gluten free Egg Fried Rice.

Ingredients:

1 large Chicken Breast

2 large Eggs

1 tablespoon Tamari Soy Sauce

1 tablespoon Rice Wine Vinegar

Zest of 1 Lemon
Juice of one Lemon

Corn Flour (Masa Harina)

Corn Oil for frying

Pinch of Salt

Directions:

• Prepare your chicken breast by trimming any excess fat or nasty bits off
• Put into a food bag, place on a flat surface and hit until flat and even, around 2cm thick. I use a rolling pin for this

Bashed Chicken - Great For Stress

• Get a flat container just bigger than the chicken breast and break the eggs into it
• Zest the lemon straight into the egg mix, add the soy sauce, rice wine vinegar lemon juice and salt and mix thoroughly

Egg Marinade

• Add the chicken to the egg mix and cover completely

It's Going To Taste Great

• Let the chicken sit in the egg mix for about 20 minutes minimum
• In another flat container put enough corn flour to coat one side of the chicken
• Put the chicken onto the flour and pour over enough to cover the top. Pat the flour into the chicken and make sure it's fully covered
• Heat a shallow pan of oil until very hot then add the chicken

Almost There!

• Cook the chicken on each side for 4-5 minutes
• Remove from the pan and place on kitchen paper to drain any excess oil

Gluten Free Lemon Chicken!

• Slice into strips for the authentic serving style

Gluten Free Lemon Chicken Strips

• Serve with gluten free egg fried rice (recipe link is at the top)

Printable Version

The sauce for this is a funny one as I just can't replicate the colour that you get from restaurants and take aways, it tastes much the same though. I can't give exact measurements for this as I did it by instinct and couldn't note it down due to so many tweaks, but you can't go much wrong with this as a guide.

Lemon Chicken Sauce:

400ml water

Juice of half a lemon

2 tablespoons Honey

1 tablespoon sugar

Put it all into a pan and bring to the boil, once reduced serve. This isn't meant to be a thick sauce, it's actually very runny and intended for dipping. The sauce you see on the first photo of this post has a somewhat thicker more tangy sauce that I wasn't happy with, so I made a few changes and it worked out great.

So there you have it, pretty authentic Chinese Lemon Chicken. No gluten!

Gluten Free Homemade Chinese

Happy Monday Everyone :)