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Lemon Chicken
Photo: Lily Banse

Lemon Chicken

8 ingredients Serves 4 openrecipes
Lemon Chicken

Quick and easy, chinese style, lemon chicken. It is even tastier than a shop bought, lemon chicken ready meal. The lemon sauce can be adjusted to suit your taste

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

482
Calories
37g
Protein
4g
Fat
73g
Carbs
What these numbers assume — 6 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Rice 1 cup cooked (158g) white 206
Chicken 100g cooked 165
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Onion 1 medium (110g) 44
Lemon juice of 1 lemon (48ml) 12
Pepper 1 tsp ground (2.3g) 6

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 4 chicken breasts, diced & cornflour to coat
  • 2 bunches spring onions
  • 2 green peppers
  • 4 lemons, juiced & zested (reserve a little lemon juice & half lemon zest to add to pan with chicken)
  • 1/2 litre chicken stock
  • 4 tbsp sugar
  • 2 tbsp cornflour
  • Rice to serve

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By bbcgoodfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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