Chinese Lemon Chicken with Brown Rice

Chinese Lemon Chicken with Brown Rice

Ready in 30 minutes • Serves 4-5
This dish most recently appeared in My Classic (5 Nights For 4) on Sunday, October 8, 2017.
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Ensure your chicken is cooked through at step 2.

Ingredients

Brown Rice

  • 2 cups brown rice
  • 3 cups water

Chinese Lemon Chicken

  • 650g chicken thighs
  • ¼ cup cornflour, seasoned with ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 brown onion, thinly sliced
  • ½ bunch asparagus, ends trimmed 1cm *
  • ½ punnet baby capsicums, quartered, core and seeds removed
  • 1 courgette, thinly sliced

Lemon Chicken Sauce

  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 tablespoon freshly grated ginger
  • ¼ cup chicken stock
  • Zest and juice of 1 lemon
  • 1 tablespoon soy sauce
  • 1 tablespoon runny honey
  • 1-2 pinches of chilli flakes (optional)

To Serve

  • 3 tablespoons roughly chopped coriander leaves and stalks

Steps

  1. Combine rice, water and a pinch of salt in a pot and bring to the boil. As soon as it boils, cover with a tight-fitting lid and reduce to lowest heat to cook for 15 minutes. Turn off heat and leave to steam, still covered, for a further 8 minutes. Do not lift lid during cooking.
  2. Pat chicken dry with paper towels, dice 2cm and season with salt. Heat a drizzle of oil in a large fry-pan on high heat. Place chicken and seasoned cornflour in a bowl or shallow plate and toss to coat. Cook for about 5 minutes, turning often, until browned and cooked through.
  3. While chicken is cooking, whisk together all lemon chicken sauce ingredients in a bowl. Set chicken aside and return pan to heat with a drizzle of oil.
  4. Stir-fry onion for about 4 minutes, until tender. Add asparagus and capsicums to pan, cook for 1 minute then return chicken to pan along with courgette and lemon chicken sauce.
  5. Bring to a simmer and cook for about 2 minutes, until sauce has thickened and veggies are tender.
  6. To serve, place ¾ cup cooked brown rice into each bowl and top with Chinese lemon chicken. Garnish with coriander.

Nutritional Information

Energy 2206 kj
527 kcal
Protein 30.3g
Carbohydrate 53.6g
Fat 21.3g