Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, healthy chicken stir fry. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
This healthy chicken stir fry recipe is a take-off of history's popular Asian chicken stir fry. When it comes to a stir fry, I'm picky. I like my veggies crisp and thick not overly salty sauce covering each piece of chicken.
Healthy chicken stir fry is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Healthy chicken stir fry is something which I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 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:
- Prepare 4 boneless, skinless chicken breast
- Make ready 1/2 head cabbage cut into bite sized pieces
- Make ready 1 onion quartered and julienned
- Get 3 cup broccoli, steamed
- Get 2 clove garlic thinly sliced
- Get 1 tbsp garlic powder
- Get 1 about 1/8 teaspoon ginger
- Take 1 1/2 tsp 5 spice
- Prepare 1 olive oil, extra virgin
- Take 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
- Take 1/2 cup dried cranberries
- Make ready 1/2 tbsp garlic powder
- Make ready 1 dash ginger
- Take 1 dash black pepper
- Prepare 1 small dash cinnamon
- Take 1 dash 5 spice
- Take 1 pinch red pepper flake
- Take 1 about 1 1/2 cup water…or as needed
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Instructions 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.
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