Lemon Chicken with Egg Fried Rice

This is a firm family favourite here! My Easy Lemon Chicken with Egg Fried Rice – it’s so good 

I make it VERY VERY often and I’ve been making it for many many years.

In fact I would have thought by now my family would be sick of it, but no, they keep asking for it time and time again!

It’s so easy to make and the lovely fresh lemon chicken sat next on a bed of soft, tasty egg fried rice – its so yum and comforting!

It’s a dish bursting with fresh lemon flavour – I promise 

And because you’re making it fresh, its not swimming in fat – bonus 

Ingredients for your Lemon Chicken 

There looks like a lot, but I promise its simple and so worth it 

To serve your Easy Lemon Chicken

It’ s such a lovely recipe  lovely chicken fillets sat on your egg fried rice – nothing else is needed

I would love it if you had a go and I’d love to hear what you think?

I’ve served it so many many times to friends and family, adults and kids and everyone seems to love it!

Please have a go.

Let me know what you think to this lovely Easy lemon chicken dish, I’m sure you are going to love it 

Fakeaway Lemon Chicken

It’s so much nicer than from the takeaway and it’s not too bad for you either! In fact it’s a perfect fakeaway!

And I don’t batter my chicken like they do at some of the takeaways. I think it’s possibly much better for you, it’s so much fresher.

I really don’t think you need the batter at all!

Chicken Dinner – always 

Chicken is always my go to but I just love its versatility, you can simply do so so much with a chicken fillet.

I have a lot of chicken dishes on the blog, just search chicken, or chicken dinners in the search box.  A lot of dishes I promise!

One of my fave fresh chicken dishes is my Lime Chicken with Avocado Salsa, is you like this dish I’m sure you’ll like that one too!

Another fave is my Philadelphia Chicken recipe – again super easy!

Have a gander!

This one also has the added delight of being all baked in one tray

I do so love a traybake dinner!

Have a go and see how you get on, oh and please please drop me a comment below the recipe.

I do so love to have your comments.

Thanks & Enjoy Clare

Easy Lemon Chicken with Egg Fried Rice

5 from 2 votes

Prep Time: 20 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 40 minutes minutes

Total Time: 1 hour hour

Servings: 4

Calories: 485kcal

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Delicious & easy Lemon Chicken with Egg Fried Rice, the perfect family supper

Ingredients

• Lemon Sauce
• 300 ml Water
• Chicken Stock cube
• 1 1/2 tablespoons Caster sugar
• 3 Lemons - zest and juiced 3 for very lemony
• Salt & Black pepper
• 1 tablespoon Cornflour
• 2 tablespoons cold Water
• Chicken
• 1 tablespoon Olive Oil
• 2 Cloves Garlic - crushed or squirt of chilled Garlic
• 1 teaspoon grated Ginger or squirt chilled Ginger
• 4 Chicken Breasts sliced into long strips
• Egg Fried Rice
• 1 tablespoon Olive Oil
• Squirt chilled Ginger
• Squirt of chilled Garlic or 1 Clove, peeled & minced
• Bunch Spring Onions chopped reserve tops for garnish
• 1/2 Red Pepper deseeded & chopped
• 1/2 Yellow Pepper deseeded & chopped
• 6 Mushrooms - chopped
• 50 g frozen Peas
• 200 gram Rice - boiled I use Basmati
• 1 Egg

Instructions

• Preheat oven 220C/430F/Gas 7
• Make Sauce
• In a small pan heat the water, stock cube, sugar, Lemon juice & zest , salt & pepper and bring to the boil.
• Simmer for approx. 5 minutes
• In a small bowl mix cornflour with water , tip into the sauce and stir until thickened - remove from the heat, pour into a medium ovenproof dish
• Chicken
• In a large frying pan add the olive oil, garlic & ginger, then fry chicken strips over a high heat for approx. 7 minutes - just on one side to get a good golden colour,  place brown side up in the sauce.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 20 minutes.
• Rice
• In the same frying pan add a little more oil, ginger and garlic and fry the spring onions, diced peppers, chopped mushrooms for 5 minutes, then add the garden peas and fry for further 2 minutes .
• Add the cooked rice, stir and heat until sizzling, season.
• Add egg and stir throughout the rice until cooked.
• Remove the chicken from oven and garnish with the reserved spring onion tops
• Serve with the egg fried rice

Notes

*** All nutritional information is approximate and intended as a guide 

Nutrition

Nutrition Facts

Easy Lemon Chicken with Egg Fried Rice

Amount per Serving

Calories

485

% Daily Value*

Fat

 

15

g

23

%

Saturated Fat

 

3

g

19

%

Trans Fat

 

1

g

Polyunsaturated Fat

 

2

g

Monounsaturated Fat

 

7

g

Cholesterol

 

186

mg

62

%

Sodium

 

292

mg

13

%

Potassium

 

1215

mg

35

%

Carbohydrates

 

36

g

12

%

Fiber

 

5

g

21

%

Sugar

 

9

g

10

%

Protein

 

54

g

108

%

Vitamin A

 

986

IU

20

%

Vitamin C

 

102

mg

124

%

Calcium

 

73

mg

7

%

Iron

 

2

mg

11

%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.