Chicken With Lemon And Ginger Recipes

CHICKEN WITH GINGER

Steps:

• Soak ginger in cold water 10 minutes; drain.
• Heat oil in a skillet over high heat; brown chicken in two batches, 6 to 8 minutes. Set aside.
• In same skillet over medium heat, cook ginger, onion, and garlic, stirring until browned, 8 to 10 minutes. Add soy sauce, vinegar, and sugar; cook over high heat until thick, 3 to 4 minutes. Add chicken; stir to warm. Remove from heat; stir in scallions.

LEMON GINGER CHICKEN STIR FRY

Steps:

• Sprinkle chicken with black pepper.
• Let the canola oil get heated in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat.
• Add in chicken, onion, and 1 tablespoon ginger; stirfry 4 minutes.
• Remove from pan and keep warm.
• Add sesame oil to skillet and heat over medium-high heat.
• Add in squash and bell pepper; stirfry for 3 mintues.
• In a small bowl, mix together 1 tablespoon ginger, lemon rind, and the next 6 ingredients.
• Add chicken and sauce mixture to skillet; stir-fry 4 minutes or until chicken is done.
• Serve with rice.

GRILLED LEMON GINGER CHICKEN

Steps:

• Place the chicken breasts in a large resealable plastic bag.
• Combine the remaining ingredients and pour them over the chicken.
• Seal the bag and allow it to marinate in the refrigerator for 30 minutes to 1 hour.
• Preheat the grill for medium heat.
• Remove the chicken from the bag and reserve the marinade.
• Place chicken on a lightly oiled grill grate and brush with marinade two to three times during the first half of the cooking time.
• Cook the chicken breasts for 20 minutes or until temperature reaches 165 F/75 C at the center (or thickest) part of the breast.

ROAST CHICKEN WITH ORANGE, LEMON, AND GINGER

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 350ºF.
• Cut the lemon into quarters. Rub the outside of the chicken with one of the lemon quarters, then discard. In a small bowl, stir together the lemon and orange zests and 1 tablespoon of the grated ginger. Rub this mixture evenly in the cavity. Put the lemon and orange quarters inside the bird. Place the chicken on a rack in a roasting pan. Sprinkle it with salt and pepper. In the now-empty small bowl, combine the melted margarine or olive oil, lemon and orange juices, honey, and the remaining 2 tablespoons ginger. Mix well.
• Place the chicken in the oven and roast, basting with the citrus juice mixture at least 4 times during cooking, until the juices run clear when the thigh is pierced with a knife, about 1 hour.
• Transfer to a serving platter and let rest for 10 to 15 minutes. Carve the chicken. Garnish with orange sections.
• Variation: Use 4 tablespoons pomegranate juice in place of the lemon juice.

LEMON-GINGER CHICKEN WITH BROCCOLI

Steps:

• Mix chicken with the next five ingredients, and allow to marinate for twenty to forty minutes.
• Heat wok over high heat until a thin thread of smoke rises. Add 3 tablespoons peanut or canola oil (reserve last tablespoon until later) and allow to heat another thirty seconds. Add scallions, ginger, chilies and half of the lemon zest and stir fry for thirty to forty seconds, or until all is fragrant.
• Add marinated chicken, and spread into a single layer on the bottom of the wok, and leave undisturbed for about one minute, or until the chicken browns on that side. Stir fry until the chicken is 2/3 done-in other words, 2/3 of the chicken is white or brown, and the rest is pink. Add half the lemon slices and stir fry for another thirty seconds, then remove chicken and lemon from wok to a clean bowl.
• Add reserved tablespoon of oil to wok, and allow it to heat thirty seconds. Add broccoli and stir fry for thirty seconds, then add wine and lemon juice. Deglaze any browned bits sticking to wok, and add chicken back to wok. Add soy sauce and continue stir frying until chicken is completely cooked. Add other half of lemon zest and slices, and drizzle with sesame oil, and serve over steamed rice.

SEPHARDIC ROAST CHICKEN WITH ORANGE, LEMON, AND GINGER

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Rinse chicken and pat dry with paper towels.
• Grate zest from 1 orange and from only 1 of the lemons and reserve it.
• Cut the zested lemon into quarters and rub the outside of the chicken with the lemon quarters and discard them.
• Cut the zested orange into quarters and also cut the other lemon into quarters and reserve them.
• In a small bowl, stir together lemon and orange zests and 1 tablespoons of the grated ginger and rub this mixture evenly inside cavity of the chicken.
• Put the orange and remaining lemon quarters inside body and neck of the chicken and season chicken all over with salt and pepper.
• Place the chicken on a rack set in a shallow roasting pan.
• In a small bowl stir together margarine or oil, citrus juices, honey, and remaining 2 tablespoons of grated ginger.
• Place chicken on the middle rack of the oven and roast for 2 to 2 1/2 hours, or until a meat thermometer inserted in the fleshy part of thigh registers 170 degrees F. and juices run clear.
• Baste with the citrus juice mixture at least 4 times during roasting.
• *If chicken is browning too quickly, tent with foil.
• Transfer to a platter and let rest for 10-15 minutes before carving chicken.
• Garnish with orange sections.

ROAST CHICKEN WITH ORANGE, LEMON & GINGER

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 400°F
• Cut the lemon into quarters.
• Rub the outside of the chicken with one of the lemon quarters then discard.
• In a small bowl, stir together the lemon and orange zests and 1 tablespoon of the grated ginger.
• Rub this mixture evenly in the cavity and put the lemon and orange quarters inside the bird.
• Place the chicken on a rack in a roasting pan.
• Sprinkle it with salt and pepper.
• In the now-empty small bowl, combine the melted olive oil, lemon and orange juices, honey, and the remaining 2 tablespoons ginger and mix well.
• Place the chicken in the oven on its side and roast about ten minutes; turn on its other side and roast ten minutes more.
• Turn oven down to 350°F and turn chicken so it is roasting breast side up and roast till done--about another 40 minutesuntil the juices run clear when the thigh is pierced with a knife, about 1 hour.
• Baste with the citrus juice mixture at least 4 times during cooking.
• Transfer to a serving platter and let rest for 10 to 15 minutes.
• Variation: Use 4 tablespoons pomegranate juice in place of the lemon juice.