Name: Lemon Chicken
Prep time: 840 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 870 min

I am a non-vegetarian, and I love chicken and love to do experimental dish with it. Lemon Chicken is one those experiments, which turned out delicious. It didn’t came well first time, but didn’t lost hope and tried several iterations of it. Finally it turned out the way I wanted it.

Lemon Chicken is a bit of tangy and little bit spicy dish. It is made with milk cream, flavor of lemon and spiciness of chili and black pepper.

Unlike other chicken dishes, this dish takes lesser time to prepare, and easier to prepare as well.

Me and my family love varieties in our food. So I get enough encouragement to do experiments with recipes. I have invented several new recipes doing so. Recipeonplate is a collection of all those recipes with some popular and authentic ones as well.

I always prefer to marinate the chicken overnight for better taste. For that, I add some amount of salt and turmeric into the chicken, mix it and let it marinate overnight inside a refrigerator.

Let’s dive into the main recipe.

INGREDIENTS

*1cup_250ml/230gms, *1tbsp._Tablespoon, *1tsp._Teaspoon

Chicken – 300 gm
Lemon – 1 piece
Green chili – 3 pieces
Garlic – 1 tbsp.
Coriander leaves – 1/4 cup
Black pepper – 1 tsp
Chili flakes- 1 tsp
Milk cream – 1/2 cup
Water – 1/4 (or less than 1/4 cup)
Butter – 1 tbsp.
Salt – 1tsp

Prep Time 14 hrs

Cook Time 30 mins

Total Time 14 hrs 30 mins

Course Main Course

Cuisine American

Servings 4 People

Equipment

Normal Fry Pan

Notes

1. Primary ingredient for Lemon Chicken is of-course the chicken pieces. Boneless breast pieces goes better with this dish. Marination is essential to get it cooked evenly.

2. So take breast piece of chicken, wash them well and squeeze out each drop of water from the chicken. Now add 1 tsp of salt and 1/2 tsp of turmeric (Turmeric is totally optional so you can skip it from your ingredients). Mix them well and put inside a refrigerator for overnight to marinate.

3. Above process helps you to get juicy and tender chicken that will cook with in time. Even you can store you chicken for 3-4 days using the same process. In that case store it in freezer.

4. One more main ingredient is lemon. Over using the lemon will get bitter taste in the dish. So its better to use lemon juice here, lemon pieces can be added at last for decoration.

5. One more thing is don’t boil the cream for long time, in that case it fat will be separated from the cream and taste and look will be affected. So wait for boiling add chicken pieces and cook for another 3-4 minutes. that’s it.

6. Don’t use any extra spices into it. Lemon chicken is simple and very tasty dish and goes well with hot rice and roti.

7. Celery can be perfect flavoring ingredients for the recipe but smell of coriander also goes well with the dish.

8. I have used butter to cook the entire dish. If you like you can add or replace butter with any kind of oil, preferably vegetable oil.

9. Use ingredients according to your own preference and health conditions. You can alter the recipe as well depending on your preferences.

Keyword Lemon Chicken

How to make lemon chicken

Step 1: Firstly we need to take out our marinated chicken (marinated with 1 tsp of salt and 1/2 tsp of turmeric powder) from refrigerator and wait till it gets near room temperature. After that cut them according to your preference.

Step 2: After that, add black pepper and gently coat the chicken pieces using your finger. Wait for another 5 minutes.

Step 3: Meanwhile chop all the ingredients which need to chop. Like garlic, green chili, coriander leaves and lemon.

Step 4: It’s time to fry the chicken pieces. Take a frypan and preheat it . Preheating is the process which prevents sticking the food to the pan. Then add 2 tbsp. of butter on the pan and wait for melting.

Step 5: Now add chicken pieces one by one into the frypan. Fry them properly and continue flipping sides in between. It needs around 10-15 minutes to fry properly on low flame. Take them out on a plate.

Step 6: Add chopped garlic into the same pan and fry it for 1 minutes. then add green chilies, mix them well. Add 1/8 cup of water and wait for boiling.

Step 7: Once water starts boiling, add 1/2 cup of fresh cream into it and mix it well. After that add fried chicken pieces, lemon pieces (not preferred) / lemon juice and chili flakes into it.

Tips: I have not used salt during the cooking because I have initially used sufficient salt for marination.

Step 8: Cover the fry pan with a lid and wait for 3-4 minutes. Flip all the chicken pieces and turn off the stove.

Step 9: It’s time to give final touch on the dish. Sprinkle all chopped coriander leaves and mix them. Serve it with hot rice or roti. I hope you will like it.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How to make lemon chicken gravy?

To make gravy of lemon chicken, you can choose a handful of ingredients. We need butter, fresh cream, lemon, black pepper and water.

Follow my simple recipe step by step and your lemon chicken will be ready.

Can I make lemon chicken recipe with in 30 minutes?

Yah you can make lemon chicken with in 30 minutes. To do so, just marinade the chicken for overnight with some salt and turmeric.

That process helps the chicken to become juicy from inside and also takes less time to cook.

Is lemon chicken curry a Indian dish?

As per my best knowledge it is an American origin dish.

Ingredients require for lemon chicken marinade?

Only Salt and Turmeric (Optional) can do the job. You can add some more like – oil, black pepper, lemon juice if you want to.

Lemon Chicken