Changing Your Chickens One Lemon at a Time.

On days you don’t feel like dining out but simply are too exhausted to cook for one, two or five at home, the best resort is usually reaching out to ‘short and sweet’ recipes that:

• Are one-pot / one-dish meals.
• Fit in a single post-it note, stuck on your fridge.
• Use basic ingredients you always have at home.
• Can be prepared under 30 minutes.

Whenever I also feel like a light dinner, this tasty lemon chicken dish becomes my pick-me-up. It’s sauce at-the-side also doubles as a salad dressing, so I’m really killing two birds with one stone.

Ingredients:

2 chicken thighs

Marinade:1T plain flour1/4t salt1T soy sauceLemon sauce:Juice of 1 lemonLemon rind2T water2T sugar1/4t salt1/4t pepperSauce Thickening:1 1/2t cornflour2T water

Methods:

1. Make sure chicken is patted dry for best results.
2. Prepare all 3 parts of the ingredients list (marinade, lemon sauce and thickening) in small bowls separately.
3. Pour the marinade mixture and coat the chicken evenly.
4. In a pan, cook the lemon sauce followed by thickening using low heat. Set aside.
5. Rinse the pan / get a new one, and pan fry the chicken till cooked thoroughly.
6. Serve soulfully with lemon sauce and salad greens.