Lemon Chicken Recipe (with Lemon Butter Sauce) (2024)

FAQs

What is lemon butter sauce made of? ›

Lemon butter sauce is a decadent sauce made from lemon and butter, plus ingredients such as shallot, garlic, chicken stock, and parsley.

To help the butter and lemon juice mix, make sure to use a low temperature. Start with heating lemon juice, but maintain a low simmer—high heat will split them apart. Add the cold butter into the juice piece by piece. Once melted, whisk the sauce vigorously to create a stable, smooth, and creamy mixture.

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Make lemon-cream sauce:

Add cream and lemon zest. Bring to a boil and cook until slightly thickened, 8 minutes. Add lemon juice and season to taste with salt and pepper.

Fip the chicken in the pan, then add fresh lemon juice, chicken stock, and more lemon zest to the skillet. Stir to scrape any stuck bits from the bottom of the pan, slide it into the oven, and bake until the chicken is cooked through (about 30 minutes).

Dilute the Lemon Juice

Start by adding small amounts of water or a neutral liquid, such as broth or white wine, to the dish. Gradually stir and taste as you go, until you reach the desired level of acidity. This method will help to mellow out the sharpness of the lemon juice without compromising the overall flavor.

Problem: My Lemon Curd is Too Runny

The curd wasn't cooked long enough to allow the egg to thicken, or not enough butter was added.

As we mentioned, flour and cornstarch are the most popular ingredients used to thicken butter sauce for pasta. After you've heated your butter and water combo in your skillet, turn your heat down so nothing scorches as you work in the dry ingredients. Then slowly whisk in your flour or cornstarch.

Grainy or gritty lemon curd comes from curdled (over-coagulated) eggs, as a result of overcooking.

Monter au Beurre is a French term used to describe the process of adding or whisking in whole, cold butter into a sauce or puree at the end of the cooking process. This process, which is usually done off the heat, adds shine, flavor and richness.

What does butter do to a sauce? ›

The addition of butter helps to loosen and emulsify the sauce, making it smooth and creamy.

FOR THE SAUCE:

Heat oil over medium-high heat. Sauté the garlic and ginger until fragrant (about 30 seconds). Add stock, soy sauce, lemon juice, sugar, honey, and a pinch of salt. Whisk, bring to a simmer until the sugar dissolves.

The reason you do not want to marinate chicken for longer than 4 hours is that the acidic ingredients in the marinade (like vinegar, wine, or lemon juice) will begin to break down the structure of the meat too much and it will start to “cook” before ever touching a heat source.

The sauce has garlic, thyme and lemon, and has so much flavor," Garten says. "And the whole thing takes like 5 minutes to put together... The best thing about this is that it makes the chicken and the sauce at the same time." Serve it over rice or quinoa, and the grains can absorb all of the sauce, Garten recommends.

Lemon glaze requires only two ingredients: powdered sugar and lemon juice.

If you've never experienced the magic of hollandaise sauce, let me attempt to describe it to you. It's a very simple savory sauce made with butter, egg yolk, lemon, and salt.

Water, Vinegar, Onion Purée (6%), Lemon Purée (4%), Sunflower Seed Oil, Garlic Purée (2.5%), Salt, Spices and Herb (Cayenne Pepper, Paprika, Parsley, African Bird's Eye Chilli), Stabilisers (Xanthan Gum, Propylene Glycol Alginate), Antioxidants (Ascorbic Acid, Rosemary Extract), Spice Extract (Paprika), Dextrose.

Lemon Chicken

This is entry level Chinese food at it's finest, mostly because it's not really Chinese food. You can find variations of this dish across Chinese restaurants in North America, Australia and the UK, but just about the only place you'll find it in China is in Hong Kong, because—as I said above—white people.