Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, healthy chicken stir fry. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Chicken Stir Fry is an easy dinner idea, made with chicken, vegetables and a delicious stir fry sauce. This chicken stir fry has become one of my family's favorite dinners. It's easy, relatively quick, and full of healthy vegetables. The key to a good stir fry is a flavorful sauce.
Healthy chicken stir fry is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Healthy chicken stir fry is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have healthy chicken stir fry using 19 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Healthy chicken stir fry:
- Take 4 boneless, skinless chicken breast
- Prepare 1/2 head cabbage cut into bite sized pieces
- Get 1 onion quartered and julienned
- Take 3 cup broccoli, steamed
- Get 2 clove garlic thinly sliced
- Get 1 tbsp garlic powder
- Make ready 1 about 1/8 teaspoon ginger
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp 5 spice
- Make ready 1 olive oil, extra virgin
- Make ready 6 sliced button mushrooms (fresh)
- Take sauce (I know a cranberry based sauce sounds kind of odd but trust me it's really good and goes well with the other ingredients
- Get 1/2 cup dried cranberries
- Prepare 1/2 tbsp garlic powder
- Make ready 1 dash ginger
- Prepare 1 dash black pepper
- Get 1 small dash cinnamon
- Make ready 1 dash 5 spice
- Prepare 1 pinch red pepper flake
- Prepare 1 about 1 1/2 cup water…or as needed
This quick and easy Chicken and Broccoli Stir Fry has everything you are craving in a good stir fry: Tender flavorful chicken. This chicken stir-fry is a little spicy and a little sweet. Fresh ginger and garlic add a little kick, which is balanced with brown sugar. Though the recipe calls for bell peppers, water chestnuts, and broccoli, try it with any vegetable you like!
Steps to make Healthy chicken stir fry:
- Prepare all ingredients first. Cut chicken into bite size pieces. Steam broccoli. Prepare sauce, direction follows
- Add about 2 TBS olive oil to saute pan and heat. When hot, but not smoking, add half of the onion and garlic and cook about a minute. Keep a close eye on this it will burn if you don't stir it.
- Add chicken to onion and garlic and cook, stirring occasionally, till chicken is cooked completely.
- While this is cooking add a sprinkle of ginger, 5 spice, and garlic powder. A couple of pinches of ginger and 5 spice in this should be good. A little goes a long way!
- Once the chicken is done, remove from pan into a bowl. The pan is still very hot!. With the pan off of the heat for a minute add about 1-2 TBS olive oil. Place pan back on heat and add cabbage, other half of onion, and mushrooms.
- Stir coating all vegetables with oil and cook about 5-7 minutes. You want the cabbage to still be crisp. Add garlic powder, pinch of ginger, couple pinches 5 spice, and some red pepper flake if you like. (Adds a nice little back heat :-) )
- When this is finished mix with chicken and add broccoli. Add sauce you made previously :-)
- To prepare sauce………… put all ingredients for sauce in small pan. Cook on medium about 30-45 minutes until cranberries are soft. With a wisk stir and mash the sauce while it cooks. It will resemble jelly when it's done. It should not be as thick. While adding sauce to chicken mixture put through a sieve so it'll be smooth. Mix all together, serve with rice.
- Ready to serve and ENJOY!
Fresh ginger and garlic add a little kick, which is balanced with brown sugar. Though the recipe calls for bell peppers, water chestnuts, and broccoli, try it with any vegetable you like! I think we all need one or two tasty and easy stir-fry recipes in our dinner rotation. This healthy chicken stir-fry is no exception! It's packed with veggies and it's perfectly filling and flavorful.
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