Chinese Lemon Chicken – tender pieces of chicken in a delicious Chinese style lemon sauce.
There are already quite a few Chinese style dishes to be found on here from egg fried rice to beef chow mein, then there is sweet and sour chicken meatballs and Sweet chilli beef, hey I even have a recipe to make your own spring rolls.
I plan to add lots more Chinese style dishes and you will be able to find them all under my fakeaways section, so keep checking back here often or fill in the subscribe box on right here on my blog, so that you never miss any update 🙂 when I add a new recipe.
Usually, Lemon chicken is coated in a very light batter and deep fried before being added to a lovely lemon sauce, but deep fried just isn’t going to happen on Slimming World.
This is definitely a good substitution. The chicken pieces are lovely in the fragrant lemon sauce. If you have a few extra syns, this would also be great with some cashew thrown in. I didn’t have any on hand today.
I like to serve this with either plain steamed rice or if I have some cold rice leftover from the day before I will make my egg fried rice
For a quick side for stir-fries, I buy these bags of broccoli slaw or coleslaw mix and just stir fry it up in a wok with some spray oil, and season with a little salt and black pepper. They are such handy things to have in your fridge, saves having to chop up vegetables on busy days. I mean I love being in my kitchen cooking, but even I have the occasional day where I need to make dinner up quick. We all need shortcuts occasionally. right?
I also recommend a good non-stick pan, because you are using far less oil. I like ceramic non-stick pans and have two different sizes of the ones from Green Pan like this:
Click here to see the GreenPan Non-Stick Hard Anodised Frying Pan, Ceramic, Grey, 24 cm on amazon
Watch the heat too, many people have a tendency to turn the heat up too high, to try to cook quicker, but you are better off with a medium high heat otherwise again things will stick and burn.
For those on a gluten free diet, use tamari or coconut aminos instead of the soy sauce and for those following a paleo diet, you can use coconut aminos and arrowroot or tapioca starch.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 4
Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving:
Calories: 245Total Fat: 4.3gSaturated Fat: 0.7gCholesterol: 84.6mgSodium: 808.8mgCarbohydrates: 13.8gFiber: 0.2gSugar: 9.4gProtein: 35.6g
Used honey as maple syrup expensive. Tasted great as do slimming world recipesd. Ths is a new family favourite
This is now a firm favourite it tasted like Chinese lemon chicken the coating on the chicken was perfect, this is by far the best Lemon chicken recipe I’ve ever used. Thank you. I urge you all to try it…. you’ll be so pleased you did, it’s quick and easy to do with flavour to make it time and time again. I can’t praise it enough….yum….❤
Please keep me updated with your STUNNING recipe’s thank you
Do you have to use oil when cooking the chicken or can you substitute it for frylight to save using 4 syn?
thanks 🙂
yes the oil is needed for the coating on the chicken, otherwise, it will just go soggy. It’s only 2.5 syns per serving, which is hardly anything 🙂
Wow absolutely delicious. Can I freeze this.
glad you enjoyed it. Freezing this should be fine.