Quick Chicken Stir Fry
This Easy Healthy Chicken Stir Fry recipe, with oyster mushroom sauce, ginger, vegetables you desire, noodles or rice, and the best healthy stir fry sauce.
Servings: 4
Calories: 302kcal
Ingredients
- 3-4 chicken breasts, boneless, skinless, cut into 1 inch chunks or boneless, skinless, chicken thighs, shrimp, sliced steak or cubed tofu.
- 1-2 sweet peppers, green, yellow, orange or red, cored, sliced
- 3 large carrots, sliced
- 1 onion, sliced
- 2-3 portobello, shiitake or regular mushrooms, chopped or sliced
- 1-2 cups sugar snap peas, trimmed
- 1-3 tblsp olive oil - 1-3 tblsp
- 2 tblsp garlic, minced
- 1 tblsp ginger, minced
- ¼ cup hoisin sauce
- 2 tblsp oyster sauce
- rice, quinoa or noodles of your choice
Options
- green onions, thinly sliced
- crushed red pepper flakes
- dry roasted, unsalted, peanuts or cashews
- water chestnuts
- add fruit such as pineapple, mandarin oranges or mangos
- use sesame seeds or even better, toasted sesame seeds
Instructions
- Get out and measure all of your ingredients.
- Chop up your chicken into bite sized pieces or chunks.
- Wash and slice your peppers.
- Wash and chop or slice your mushrooms.
- Peel and chop the onions of your choice.
- Prepare the rest of the vegetables you want to include. Put aside.
- Prepare noodles, quinoa or rice according to package directions and set aside.
- In a small bowl combine hoisin and oyster sauce. Stir and set aside.
- In a large skillet heat oil over medium heat. Wait until the oil shimmers or a drop of water flicked in the oil dances.
- Add chicken and onions.
- Sauté and stir with a wooden spoon until chicken is no longer pink and starting to brown, about 5 minutes.
- Add garlic, ginger, carrots and mushrooms.
- Stir until vegetables soften and become tender, about 4 or 5 more minutes. Add snap peas and sweet peppers after a few minutes.
- Add hoisin and oyster sauce.
- Stir until vegetables and chicken are coated with sauce.
- Taste your stir fry. If needed you can add some sweetness with a little brown sugar or honey. If you prefer a sweet kind of heat add sweet chili sauce.
- Add dry roasted, unsalted, peanuts or cashews, water chestnuts or add fruit such as pineapple, mandarin oranges or mangos if desired.
- Sprinkle of sesame seeds, green onions, or crushed red pepper flakes.
- Serve with noodles and enjoy!
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Nutrition
Calories: 302kcal | Carbohydrates: 23g | Protein: 39g | Fat: 5g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 0.02g | Cholesterol: 109mg | Sodium: 720mg | Potassium: 1053mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 11g | Vitamin A: 10272IU | Vitamin C: 63mg | Calcium: 67mg | Iron: 2mg