Lemon Chicken
Lemon Chicken , a tasty and delicious dish , is flavorful and easy to make with ingredients all easily available on your kitchen shelf. Lemon chicken is marinated with lemon juice , then roasted with few spices and fried onions in oil and lastly cooked with curd , which gives a thick gravy . As the name says it all , the main Ingredient is but ofcourse Lemon , but as you can not add alone lemon to the chicken which in turn will make the dish too sour , so I added have honey to it . In fact when initially I made , I had added sugar but then this time I replaced it , with honey and the results were better.
Some add fresh sugar cane juice where as some add orange juice too to reduce the acid in lemon , but I have added honey to it . Without much ado , Here is my recipe of Lemon Chicken .
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INGREDIENTS:
- 750 gms chicken ( with bones )
- 1 lemon
- 2 small tsp coriander powder
- 1 cup beaten curd
- 4 -5 green chilies slit
- 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- 1/2 tsp paprika powder ( optional )
- 1/8 tsp turmeric powder
- 3 -4 tbsp oil
- 3-4 tbsp ghee – clarified butter ( optional )
- 1 tsp cumin seeds
- 2 medium sized onions finely chopped
- 1/2 small tsp garam masala powder
- 3 -4 cloves of garlic crushed or chopped
- 1/2 inch ginger crushed or finely chopped
- 1 small tsp honey
- Salt
HOW TO MAKE LEMON CHICKEN
- Clean , wash and marinate chicken pieces with salt , turmeric powder and half lemon juice for an hour. ( If your chicken pieces are huge enough, before marinating them slit or prick with knife so that the flavors reach deep inside , which in turn will give a good taste )
- In a kadhai add oil and ghee ( if you adding ) with cumin seeds , let it splutter .
- Add ginger , garlic and roast for half a minute , now add onions and fry until they turn slightly golden in colour.
- Now add salt ,turmeric powder ,coriander powder , paprika powder ( if you adding ) garam masala powder and roast until oil separates .
- Add little water and roast again until oil separates , again repeat the procedure of adding half cup water and roasting the ground masala.
- Now add chicken , slit green chillies and half lemon juice and honey , mix well so that the masala coats well to the chicken. Roast until the oil separates.
- Turn off the gas , add beaten curd to the chicken gravy, mix well .
- Now cook again lemon chicken on gas for 7 -10 minutes or until chicken is completely done . Adjust salt and lemon juice . ( here at this stage if you need to add more lemon juice , you can adjust it by adding 2-3 tbsp lemon juice to the chicken if you feel it’s less and the taste is not balanced)
- Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with chapatis / phulkas or tandoori naans and salads.
NOTE :
- Increase or decrease the number of green chillies as per your preferences.
- The measurement of lemon here mentioned above is of small sized lemon , but we all know that the size may vary , so when you add half lemon juice to the chicken for marination , you can add less lemon juice here at this stage , and when you add lemon juice while preparing the chicken too , there also add less lemon juice , now check the taste and if you feel that it’s less then add more depending on the taste.
- Adding the lemon juice may vary from person to person as the lemon sized may not be exact of my mentioned one here , so if you feel that the taste needs more sour taste then add more only after you taste.
- The taste should not be too sour , perhaps the flavours should be balanced.
- Adding of paprika powder is optional so you can skip it.
- If you want you can first roast the chicken in oil / ghee for few minutes , remove and keep aside . Now in the same oil add garlic , ginger and continue the above mentioned procedure.
PREPARATION TIME : 30 -40 MINUTES.(EXCLUDING THE MARINATION TIME)
SERVES : 3-4 PERSONS.
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