Chinese Green Onion Lime Chicken. Delicious, juicy, savoury chicken with a hint of lime and green onions. Perfect as a side dish for dinner or lunch!
This weekend I decided to try combining a few Asian ingredients to marinate some chicken thighs. To my marinade, I added green onion, soy sauce, ginger, garlic, cane sugar, sesame oil but with one twist: lime juice.
In Chinese cooking, they don't usually use lime juice as a source of acidity. They tend to use vinegar but I thought, "Why not, let's give it a whirl and see where this goes".
To my surprise, my green onion lime chicken thighs worked out well! There's a hint of every ingredient flavour in this dish and it pairs nicely with steamed white rice and some dark leafy greens like Bok or Yu Choy (you can find both at your Asian grocer).
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For this recipe
You'll need the following ingredients for my green onion lime chicken recipe:
- 5 chicken thighs with skin and bone
Green onion lime chicken marinade:
- 3 stalks of green onion, chopped
- Juice of 2 limes
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 tbsp of chopped ginger
- 2 tbsp of low sodium soy sauce
- ¾ tsp of organic cane sugar
- 1 tsp of sesame oil
How to Make Green Onion Lime Chicken
- In a large mixing bowl, combine all your marinade ingredients until sugar has dissolved. Add in chicken thighs and marinade for at least 10 minutes. You can marinate overnight if you wish for a deeper flavour.
- In a non-stick frying pan on high heat, add chicken thighs (leaving marinade aside). Sear on each side for 2 minutes. Layer the marinade ingredients over the thighs.
- Lower heat to medium and cover with a lid. Cook for 15 minutes until meat is cooked at the bone. To lift the sauce from the pan, you can add a few tablespoons of water.
- Serve immediately and enjoy!
Give it a try!
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Green Onion Lime Chicken
Ingredients
- 5 boneless skinless chicken thighs with skin and bone
Marinade
- 3 stalks of green onion chopped
- 4 tbsp lime juice
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- 2 tbsp ginger chopped
- 2 tbsp low sodium soy sauce
- ¾ tsp cane sugar
- 1 tsp sesame oil
- 1 tbsp honey
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, combine all your marinade ingredients until sugar has dissolved. Add in chicken thighs and marinade for at least 10 minutes. You can marinate overnight if you wish for a deeper flavour.
- In a non-stick frying pan on high heat, add chicken thighs (leaving marinade aside). Sear on each side for 2 minutes. Layer the marinade ingredients over the thighs.
- Lower heat to medium and cover with a lid. Cook for 15 minutes until meat is cooked at the bone. To lift the sauce from the pan, you can add a few tablespoons of water.
- Serve immediately and enjoy!
That lime juice with the green onion was perfection.