Lemon Chicken

Ingredients

•500 grams of boneless chicken cut into bite sized strips

•1 egg

•1 tbsp black pepper powder

•1.5 tbsp cornstarch

•Salt as per taste

•1 big onion – cut slightly thick sized west to east

•1 medium green pepper – cut slightly thick sized

•8 garlic cloves – very coarsely chopped

•4 green chillies – cut slightly thick sized

•1 tbsp honey

•4 lemons and 1 orange

•Oil for frying

Process

Marination

•Mix the chicken, 1 egg, black pepper powder and 1 tbsp cornstarch and marinate for atleast 1 hour.

Lemon Sauce

•Make fine juliennes of lemon and orange skin. Keep aside for later use

•Squeeze the juice of the lemon and orange.

•Boil the juice of lemon and orange with 3 cups of water and honey until a slightly thick consistency.

•Save this for use

Final Step

•Heat oil in a deep frying vessel and deep fry the marinated chicken until 80% cooked.

•Re-fry the chicken for the chicken to be crispy.

•Heat 1 tbsb oil in a wok. Add onion, green pepper, garlic and green chillies and fry for less than a minute.

•Add fried chicken and lemon sauce and cook on low flame for 5 minutes. At this time add the juliennes of lemon and orange skin and let it simmer for another 2-3 minutes.

•Finally add 0.5 tbsp cornstarch mixed in water to the mixture and saute on high flame for a minute.

Serving

Dish out hot!!!