Lemon chicken

Lemon chicken

A plate of Chinese-style lemon chicken
Course	Main
Main ingredients	Chicken Lemon sauce

Lemon chicken
Lemon and garlic roasted chicken
Traditional Chinese	檸檬雞
Simplified Chinese	柠檬鸡
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin níng méng jī Bopomofo ㄋㄧㄥ´ ㄇㄥ´ ㄐㄧ Yue: Cantonese Jyutping ning4 mung1 gai1

Lemon chicken is the name of several dishes found in cuisines around the world which include chicken and lemon.^[1]

In Canadian- and British-Chinese cuisine, it usually consists of pieces of chicken meat that are sautéed or battered and deep-fried and coated with a thick, sweet lemon-flavored sauce. The Chinese restaurant of the Panda Hotel in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong used to serve its version of lemon chicken with the chicken pieces coated in batter, then rolled in almond slivers and deep-fried and served with the lemon-glaze sauce.^[2][3]

A version of lemon chicken popular in Australasia involves coating the chicken in batter, frying it and then covering the chicken with a lemon sauce.

Similarly named dishes

Lemon chicken in Italy (pollo al limone) and Greece (κοτόπουλο λεμονάτο) consists of a whole chicken pan-roasted with white wine, lemon juice, fresh thyme and mirepoix.

In Spain, a similar dish, pollo al romero con limón y piñones also includes pine nuts, rosemary and ham.

French poulet au citron includes Dijon mustard in the sauce, and is accompanied by roasted potatoes.

See also

• Orange chicken
• Pineapple chicken
• List of chicken dishes
• List of lemon dishes and beverages
•  Food portal

References

External links

• Newspaper articles about lemon chicken from New York City, 1969-1995