If you love Chinese food, you will love this Lemon Chicken.

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 there 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 occasionally 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 greenpan 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.

5.0 from 2 reviews

Chinese Lemon Chicken

 

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Prep time

10 mins

Cook time

15 mins

Total time

25 mins

 

This recipe is gluten free, dairy free, paleo, Slimming World and Weight Watchers friendly

Extra Easy - 2.5 syns per serving
Original/SP - 2.5 syns per serving (serve with cauli rice)
WW Smart Points - 5

Author: Slimming Eats

Serves: 4

Ingredients

• 600g/21oz of chicken breast
• 1 egg white
• 1 tbs of cornstarch (tapioca or arrowroot powder)
• ½ tsp of baking soda
• 2 tsps of avocado oil (or other oil of choice) - 4 syns
• pinch of salt and black pepper

for the sauce

• 3 tbs of maple syrup - 6 syns
• juice of a lemon (reserve zest)
• ½ cup/120ml of chicken stock
• 1 tbs of soy sauce (tamari or coconut aminos)
• 1 clove of garlic, crushed
• 1 tsp of fresh grated ginger
• spray oil

Method

1. Whisk together the egg white, cornstarch, baking soda and pinch of salt and black pepper.
2. Add the chicken and mix to coat.
3. Grate the zest from the lemon, and set aside.
4. Heat a non stick pan, add 1 tsp of the oil
5. Once oil is hot, add half the chicken and fry turning occasionally until golden.
6. Remove and set aside
7. Add the other tsp of oil and repeat with the other half of the chicken
8. Again remove and set aside with the rest of the chicken.
9. In a bowl whisk together the maple syrup, juice of the lemon, stock and soy sauce.
10. Spray the frying pan with spray oil and add the garlic and ginger
11. Fry for a minute of so, just to release the flavour.
12. Add in the sauce mix and heat until it bubbles and starts to reduce down
13. Add in the chicken and keep ladling over the sauce until the chicken gets a nice glaze of the sauce.
14. Add the reserved grated zest and sprinkle with a few sesame seeds.
15. Serve with your choice of sides

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Nutrition Information

Serving size: 1 Calories: 245.7 Fat: 4.3g Saturated fat: 0.7g Carbohydrates: 13.8g Sugar: 9.4g Sodium: 808.8mg Fibre: 0.2g Protein: 35.6g Cholesterol: 84.6mg

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