Ingredients
- 1 1/2 pounds chicken breast or chicken tenders, cut into chunks
- 1/4 cup all-purpose unbleached flour
- Coarse salt
- 2 tablespoons wok or vegetable oil, 2 turns of the pan (preferred brand: House of Tsang)
- 1 tablespoon (a splash) white or rice wine vinegar
- 1/2 cup chicken broth or stock
- 8 ounces (1 cup) prepared lemon curd
- 1/4 cup hot water
- 1 lemon, zested
- 2 scallions, thinly sliced or 20 blades fresh chives, finely chopped
Directions
Coat the chunked chicken lightly in flour, seasoned with a little salt. Heat a large skillet or a wok-shaped nonstick pan over high heat. Stir fry chicken until golden, 3 or 4 minutes. Remove chicken from the pan and return pan to heat. Reduce heat to medium.
Add a splash of vinegar to the pan and let it evaporate. Add stock or broth to the pan and scrape up any drippings with a whisk. Thin curd by stirring in a little hot water. Add curd to broth and whisk to combine. Add chicken back to the pan and simmer for 1 to 2 minutes to thicken sauce and finish cooking chicken pieces through. Remove the pan from heat, add the scallions or chives and zest, and toss chicken pieces well to combine zest and scallions or chives evenly throughout the sauce. Serve with Special Rice, recipe follows.
Cook's Notes: Wok oil infused with ginger and garlic is usually available on the International Foods aisle in many markets.
Chicken broths and stocks are available in resealable paper containers, making storage of remaining product easy and on hand in the refrigerator; they are found in the soup aisle.
Lemon curd is a sweet lemon spread available in most markets. It is on the jam/jelly aisle.
SERVES 4
Calories: 400
Total Fat: 9 grams
Saturated Fat: 1 gram
Protein: 40 grams
Total carbohydrates: 35 grams
Sugar: 16 grams
Fiber 0.5 grams
Cholesterol: 99 milligrams
Sodium: 349 milligrams
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By angelinabarbera...
malverne, NY
on February 01, 2012
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made this tonight - not bad - tasted like chinese food - a little bit too sweet was the general consensus
By ILECUEVAS012
on January 25, 2012
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So i cooked this last night for dinner. Found out that there was no lemon curd or butter and made it myself replacing the butter with vanilla extract . Butter is not necessary for this to taste delicious !!! It is exquisite without it
By lisamac3_8942701
North Olmsted, OH
on January 17, 2012
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This is DELICIOUS!!! The chicken came out perfectly cooked and the sauce was wonderful.
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