Crispy Honey Lemon Chicken

Crispy Honey Lemon Chicken with lightly coated chicken tossed in classic lemon sauce. This easy recipe can be made in less than 30mins and made with simple ingredients.

📝 Ingredients

• 250 g Chicken breast (or thigh, cut small cubes)
• 1 Egg
• 1 cup Potato / Corn starch
• Cornstarch slurry (Corn flour½ tsp + 1 tbsp water)
• Toasted sesame seeds
• Oil for frying (vegetable or neutral flavour oil, canola, sunflower, etc)
• ¼ tsp Baking soda
• 1 tsp Sesame Oil
• 1 tsp Light Soy Sauce (or all-purpose soy sauce)
• 1 tsp Ginger garlic paste (( grated ginger and garlic ))
• ½ cup Chicken Stock (Or water)
• ½ tsp Salt
• 2 tbsp Honey (or sugar)
• 1 tsp Lemon zest
• 1 Lemon (about 3 tbsp of lemon juice)
• 3-4 slices Ginger (cut thin strips)

👨‍🍳 Instructions

1. 1Cut chicken into small bite size pieces. Add baking soda, sesame oil, ginger garlic paste and light soy sauce mix well and marinate for 15 minutes.
2. 2Cut ginger into thin slices. Squeeze lemon juice out from one lemon and set aside.
3. 3Break one egg into the marinated chicken pieces and mix it well. Then add the potato/corn starch and coat the chicken pieces toss the excess flour out before frying.
4. 4Heat the oil into high heat about 350° F. You can test oil temperature with wooden chopstick, its ready to fry when the bubbles start to fizz steadily. Add the coated chicken pieces and deep fry for 2-3 mins until the chicken turn into crispy golden brown. Remove from oil and set aside.
5. 5Heat the wok, add all ingredients from the sauce mixture and bring it to boil with medium high heat.
6. 6Add the fried chicken pieces. Stir well with medium high heat to few seconds.
7. 7Add corn starch and water mixture in the sauce and stir well until the chicken pieces are glossy and coated well with the sauce.
8. 8Serve immediately with a bowl of steamed rice or a stir-fry noodle. Garnish with toasted sesame seeds and lemon slices. Crispy Honey Lemon Chicken is ready! Enjoy!