Basil Chicken or Lemon Basil Chicken

Basil Chicken or Lemon Basil Chicken is a flavorful recipe that is very easy to make. Infact it has just two steps – marinate the chicken and shallow fry it – and your delicious lemon basil chicken is ready. Serve it with any salad and maybe mashed potatoes by the side and your restaurant style dinner plate is ready. This lemon basil chicken recipe goes great with any spicy (like Spicy Potato Salad) or mild salads (like Russian Salad or Corn Salad).

I think this lemon basil chicken will be great as a starter as well – just make the chicken pieces smaller and insert some toothpicks

Serves: 2
Preparation Time: 5 minutes
Cooking Time: 10 minutes

Ingredients:
Chicken (boneless) : 400 gms
Basil Leaves : 8-10 (chopped)
Lemon Juice : 5 tbsp
Garlic Cloves : 5 (finely chopped)
Honey : 1 tsp
Oil : 2 tbsp (for shallow frying)
Salt : as per taste
Pepper : as per taste

Method of Preparation:

1. Mix the lemon juice, basil leaves, garlic cloves and honey in a small bowl.
2. Add the lemon basil mix to the chicken pieces and apply evenly. Sprinkle salt and pepper and mix well. Keep this marinated in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours.
3. Heat oil on a frying pan. Once the oil is heated, place the chicken pieces on the pan. Let them cook for 3-4 min. Turn and cook on the other side till the chicken pieces are cooked well. Delicious basil chicken is ready. Serve hot.

If you enjoy dry chicken recipes, you may also like to try Semolina crusted fried chicken, Honey Pepper Chicken or Chicken Cafreal (A Goan-Portuguese recipe)

Basil Chicken recipe