How to Prepare Appetizing Lemongrass Chicken Breast

Lemongrass Chicken Breast.

You can cook Lemongrass Chicken Breast using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Lemongrass Chicken Breast

1. It's of skinless chicken breast fillets.
2. It's of grated zest 1 lime and huice.
3. It's of lemongrass stalk, trimmed and roughly chopped.
4. Prepare of garlic cloves, peeled and roughly chopped.
5. Prepare of fresh ginger, peeled and roughly chopped.
6. It's of large red chilli, seeded.
7. It's of fish sauce (can be replace with white wine vinegar).
8. It's of oilve oil.
9. Prepare of juice of 1/2 lime.
10. Prepare of salt.

Lemongrass Chicken Breast instructions

1. Start by marinating the chicken. In large bowl, mix the lime zest and juice, lemongrass, garlic, ginger, chili and fish sauce into a food processor. Blend until smooth paste..
2. Rub the paste all over the chicken breast. Cling wrap and leave it in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours (I usually marinate it overnight).
3. To start cooking. Heat up olive oil in a skillet or pan over medium heat..
4. Add marinated chicken breast into hot pan. Season with salt and lime juice..
5. Cook for 3-5 minutes on each sides until golden and cooked through. (depending on the thickness of your chicken).
6. Once ready, remove and let it rest on a chopping board for 2 minutes. Serve with steamed white rice or you may also toss the lemongrass chicken with leafy salad and sprinkle with roasted walnuts or peanuts..