Tuesday 6 March 2012

Recipe - Lemon Chicken with Roasted Tomatoes and Potatoes


Straight off I have to admit that I'm not entirely happy with this photo, I don't feel that it does the dish full justice. My only explanation, not a proper excuse, is that there was a guest around for dinner so I couldn't faff around as much with the camera as I'd normally do, I didn't want to look too much of a twunt for once. Having said all that, I guess it is better than no picture at all.


This is a fairly straight forward dish which have a very nice and fresh flavour from the lemon. It is quite bit removed from the Lemon Chicken you'd expect from a Chinese restaurant, the sauce is nowhere near as thick as that.

This time I choose to serve it with new potatoes and cherry tomatoes, which I roasted at the same time in the oven. If you don't fancy that you could always serve it with rice or potato mash for example.

Fairly simple dish, so I'll lead straight into the recipe now...

Ingredients (serves 4)
4 chicken breasts, cut into 3 - 4 pieces each
Salt
Pepper
80 ml flour
60 ml vegetable oil
4 tbsp butter, divided into two  lots
4 cloves of garlic, either finely diced or pressed
1 tbsp dried oregano
1 tbsp caster sugar
125 ml white wine
Juice from two lemons, about 60 ml
375 ml chicken stock
1 tbsp flat leaf parsley, chopped

Method
Put the flour into a bowl and season well, stir to mix. Dredge the chicken pieces in the flour and shake to get rid of excess flour.

Heat the oil on a medium heat and fry the chicken pieces in batches for about 3 minutes per side, or until nicely browned. Remove chicken from frying pan and put on a plate.

Once all chicken pieces have been cooked, lower the heat and stir in 2 tbsp of the butter. Once this have melted add in the garlic and fry it whilst stirring for 30 seconds to a minute. Now stir in the sugar and oregano fry whilst still stirring for a similar amount of time.

Add the wine and lemon juice, increase the heat and let it simmer for 3 - 4 minutes, stir in the stock and simmer for another 3 - 5 minutes.

Lower the heat a bit and stir in the remaining butter as well as the chicken pieces. Stir well and let this cook for another 3 - 5 minutes or until the chicken pieces are fully cooked through.

Season to taste and stir in the parsley.

Serve with the accompaniments of your choice.

Enjoy!

10 comments:

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    1. Hi Jan,

      Many thanks for leaving a comment and for the kind words.

      The picture really doesn't make it justice, it was a really fresh and nice dish. Well worth a go if you feel like it.

      Once again - many thanks!

      // Mike

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  2. Looks like a really fresh dish, I love chicken with lemon and this recipe is really tasty. GG

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    1. GG,

      Thanks for the kind words and for taking the time to leave a comment.

      This is indeed a very fresh dish and I think I prefer the consistency of the sauce to the classic 'Chinese takeaway lemon chicken' one.

      If you give it a go, please let me know what you think.

      // Mike

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  3. Sounds really tasty, thanks for sharing :-)

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    1. Lee,

      Many thanks, both for the kind words and for taking the time to leave a comment.

      As I've said to the others, if you give it a go - please let me know what you think of it.

      // Mike

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  4. Looks pretty good to me. I always struggle with meat and veg pictures because quite often they are just sades of brown. This looks tasty and vibrant however, and I'd quite happily polish off that plateful.
    A great recipe to zing up our palates ready for summer food.
    Cheers
    Marcus

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    1. Marcus,

      Cheers for the kind words. One of the things I find worst to take pictures of is soup. Seems to turn very greasy once you've taken a picture of it.

      // Mike

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  5. wow, I've never seen this dish before, I feel hungry the first second when I saw it, will try to make it on this weekend.

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  6. Hejsan

    Du skickade frågor ang rökning till min blogg. Förlåt har inte sett dessa förrän nu! Jag har svarat, ber om ursäkt brukar svara samma dag.

    http://korvoteknik.blogspot.se/2012/01/rokning-av-lax-och-korv.html

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Please leave a comment. Positive or negative - all comments are welcome and useful. I do enjoy hearing what you think of my posts, what is good and what needs improving so please post away.

// Mike