Lemon Chicken. Lemon chicken is the name of several dishes found in cuisines around the world which include chicken and lemon. In Canadian Chinese cuisine it usually consists of pieces of chicken meat that are sautéed or deep-fried and coated with a thick, sweet lemon-flavored sauce. This easy lemon chicken recipe is perfect for a weeknight dinner!
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You can cook Lemon Chicken using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Lemon Chicken
- You need of Butter.
- It's of Olive oil.
- You need of Chicken cutlets.
- Prepare of Flour.
- It's of McCormick Montreal Chicken seasoning (or poultry seasoning).
- It's of Lemon juice.
- Prepare of White wine.
- You need of Olive oil.
- Prepare of Sugar.
- Prepare of Basil.
- You need of Oregano.
- You need of Parsley.
- You need of garlic chopped.
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Lemon Chicken instructions
- In bowl combine 1/4 cup olive oil, wine, lemon juice, garlic, sugar, basil, parsley and oregano...mix well.
- Combine poultry seasoning and flour in shallow dish.
- Melt butter and oil in large skillet over medium heat...
- Dip chicken in flour mixture to coat and add to skillet.
- Browm chicken on both sides approx 5-7 min.
- Chicken should be browned but not cooked all the way through, remove from pan onto plate lined w paper towels.
- Wipe extra oil from pan, return to stove.
- Add 1 tblsp flour to liquid "sauce" wish well to combine.
- Pour sauce in skillet cook over low heat 2-3 min untill thickens slightly.
- Return chicen to pan w sauce....simmer 8-10 min until chicken is cooked through n sauce has thickened.
- I serve with rice n veggies.
This lemon chicken recipe yields tender chicken bites with a dominant flavor of lemon juice, mint and. The chicken won't have absorbed as much flavor, but it will still delicious. But when all else fails, it still works. This easy lemon chicken recipe is one of our most popular main dish chicken recipes. With simple flavor additions that don't overpower the dish, the natural flavor of the chicken is allowed to shine.