We have been trying to eat a bit healthier around here. One of the first meals we tried which I loved was Chicken Broccoli Stir-Fry. It was so delicious. We made it over the weekend so I could have Tyler handle the raw chicken. Touching raw chicken is not my thing. It turned out so good, I can’t wait to make it again!
Ingredients:
-1 pound chicken breasts (about 2 breasts) cut into strips
-1 green pepper, chopped
-2 cloves garlic, minced
-1-inch piece of fresh ginger, minced
-2 tablespoons soy sauce
-2 tablespoons sugar
-1 tablespoon, plus 1 teaspoon cornstarch
-1 1/4 teaspoon salt
-1 tablespoon dark sherry
-1 tablespoon sesame oil
-About 1/3 cup water
-3 tablespoons peanut oil
-2-3 brocoli heads, cut up
Directions:
1. Cut up chicken into strips
2. In a medium bowl, toss the chicken with the green peppers, about half the garlic and ginger, 1 tablespoon soy sauce, sugar, 1 teaspoon of cornstarch, 1 teaspoon of salt, the sherry and sesame oil.
3. Marinate chicken mixture at room temperature for 15 minutes.
4. Mix the remaining cornstarch with 1/3 cup water
5. Heat a large nonstick skillet over high heat
6. Add 1 tablespoon of the oil and heat
7. Add the broccoli and stir fry for 30 seconds
8. Add the remaining garlic, ginger, 2 tablespoons of water and season with 1/4 teaspoon salt and pepper
9. Stir-fry until the broccoli is bright green but still crisp (about 2 minutes) then transfer to a plate
10. Get the skillet hot again then heat 2 more tablespoons oil
11. Add the chicken and stir fry until it loses its raw color and gets a little brown (about 3 minutes)
12. Add 1 tablespoon soy sauce and return broccoli to pan and toss to heat through
13. Stir in reserved cornstarch mixture and bring to a boil to thicken
14. Add more water if needed to thin the sauce
Serve over rice and enjoy! This meal was delicious and healthy. So it’s a win win! I hope you enjoy this delicious stir-fry recipe. You can mix it up and add other stuff that you like in stir-fry to make it your own.
Adapted from: Food Network
I don’t normally use sherry. I wonder how it taste. I was just looking for this at our nearest grocery store out of curiosity of trying it unfortunately it was not available. I’d better go to a bigger grocery store then. Pinning this.
Thank you so much for sharing your recipe at Pin It Monday Hop.
Judy
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It was a delicious recipe. I was afraid it might be kind of tasteless but it was so good! I can’t wait to have it again. Thank you for checking it out!
Looks delicious! I only have liked one recipe for this dish but often when I want to make it I can’t find the darn recipe, I would try this one, I need a backup!
Im going to have to have hubby make this for me! YUM!
Going to feature this one as well! Thanks so much for linking up each week 🙂
This is so good! I think I’m gonna have to make it again this week. Thank you for featuring it!
Visiting from the Super Sunday Link Party. Your stir fry looks wonderful! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Thank you for coming by, it is so good!!!
Mmmm your stir-fry looks delicious! I feel like I always make the same kind of stir-fry, and I need to change it up a little bit! This looks wonderful, thanks for sharing! 🙂
Thank you for coming by, it is delicious! I want to have it again this week!
Yum!! Now I’m getting hungry. 😉 Looks delicious!
It is so delicious. I really hope you will enjoy it!
Emily
Oh my goodness… I’m so hungry and this looks so good 🙂 Pinned!
Shauna @ The Best Blog Recipes
It is delicious. I really love it! Thank you for pinning it!
Emily
I found your recipe on Pinterest and featured it on our family’s monthly menu for February (http://www.plaidanddots.com/plaidandpolkadots/2014/01/february-menu.html). Well, we had it tonight and I think it may be our new “go to” chicken stir fry recipe. My daughter gobbled it up and my husband kept complimenting it as well. I did make a few changes (swapped out brown sugar for the regular sugar, swapped red pepper for the green since we already had a red pepper, and added carrots) and it was a total hit. Cannot wait to make this again – thanks for the recipe!
Kristen,
I’m so glad y’all enjoyed it! We LOVE it. It’s my go to stir fry recipe as well. Thank you for including it in your monthly meal plan and I am so glad you liked it!
Emily
I think someone else on pinterest stole this photo and linked to their own site, only found because of your watermark, good thing you added one! Will definitely give this a try looks delicious. Glad I managed to find your original recipe 🙂
Oh no! Thank you for letting me know. I am glad you were able to find the original recipe. It’s one of our favorites!
Emily