• 500 grams of de-skinned and deboned chicken breast or drumstick meat
• 1 eggs, lightly beaten
• adequate self raising flour to coat the meat (about 5 tablespoons)

For the sauce:

• 4 tablespoons of lemon juice
• 1 1/2 tablespoon of sugar
• 1 tablespoon of plum sauce (optional)
• 1 tablespoon of corn flour/sweet potato flour/custard powder
• 1/2 teaspoon of turmeric (optional)
• 175 ml of water
• Pinches of salt

STEPS OF PREPARATION

• Dip the chicken breast/drumsticks in the beaten eggs lightly and coat with the corn flour. You can either have single or double coating. Double coating means that after your first coating, dip your chicken into the egg and recoat with corn flour again. This will give you a thicker fritter skin.

• Heat up a pot of oil and use a chopstick to test whether the oil is hot enough for frying the chicken. It is considered as ready when the chopstick starts to emit bubbles when inserted into the hot oil. Put the flour coated chicken meat and deep fried until golden brown. Drain and put it on top of an oil absorbing paper.

Preparing the sauce

• Place all ingredients in the pot, use a balloon whisk to stir until well mix and ensure there are no lumps of flour in the solution.

• Heat the sauce under medium heat and bring to boil. The sauce is considered as ready when the sauce become transparent. If the sauce is too thick, add 1-2 tablespoons of water to the sauce. You have to continuously whisking the sauce throughout the process to ensure that the sauce is smooth. The entire process should take only 3-4 minutes. 

• Cut the chicken into about 1 inches strips and place on  a serving plate. Drizzle with the lemon sauce and garnished with lemon wedges.The dish is best served hot when the chicken is still crispy. Therefore, you can prepare the sauce before you deep fry the chicken.

CONCLUSION

I was shocked that the recipe is so simple and no marinating is required. Like many other Chinese dishes, there are a lot flexibilities and the quantity of seasoning will depends on family’s taste buds. To have a change, substitute the lemon juice with orange juice, rest be assured that the orange chicken will be equally delicious. Again, if you have a air dryer. do make use of it to air fry the chicken meat.

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