 Lemon Chicken with Chinese Lemon Sauce This is my pick for a perfect birthday dinner! I have many memories of wonderful Chinese feasts at Leann Chin's restaurant in Minneapolis, and we LOVED the Lemon Chicken with Chinese Lemon Sauce the most! An extremely popular place because of the incredibly fresh and flavorful Chinese food - nothing at all like takeout, they had a wonderful dinner buffet that was to die for! This was the restaurant I requested for many a birthday celebration or special event. When it closed, it was a sad day indeed! I actually had the pleasure of meeting Leeann Chin when she first opened her original restaurant and many times throughout the years, and she was a charming and delightful woman who would jet all over the country to cook Chinese feasts for her clients. She created a Chinese Cookbook for Betty Crocker, and her restaurants were bought out by General Mills. There are now Leeann Chin fast-food restaurants located throughout the Twin Cities, but the recipes (and food) are not the same... This is my favorite take on my favorite recipe of hers!  Chinese Lemon Chicken I'm sharing two variations of this recipe with you - the traditional Original Breaded version, and a much crunchier Crispy Breading recipe. My little ones LOVE the crispy version!  Lemon Chicken This Chinese Lemon Sauce absolutely makes the recipe, but it is also perfect as a dipping sauce for egg rolls, crab Rangoon, or drizzled on top of rice.  Lemon Chicken with Lemon Sauce I'm not going to lie - this is a labor-intensive dinner to make, but perfect when you have extra hands around that want to help! You can also prepare the majority of this dish ahead of time and put it together pretty quickly at the last minute. The chicken is so tender, moist and flavorful, and the lemon sauce is absolute perfection. Hope that you enjoy my birthday dinner as much as we do!  Lemon Chicken with Chinese Lemon Sauce
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Roxanne Shingledecker
9/28/2016 01:51:33 pm
As I am allergic to ginger, is there anything that can substitute for the fresh and ground ginger in the lemon sauce and marinade/batter.
Mama V
10/1/2016 09:53:50 pm
Hi my friend! You can simply leave the ginger out. Remember when we made this and the homemade egg rolls for like 20 people? Good memories! Leave a Reply. |
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