Chicken and mushrooms stir fry
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Until I was introduced to Wok with Yan about twenty years ago, Chinese cooking was a mystery to me. Of course, I had been a fan of Chinese cuisine since childhood but my acquaintance with Chinese food had been limited to my role as a diner. Then, Wok with Yan came along and it demystified Chinese cooking for me. I learned that wonderful cooking technique called stir frying and it added a new dimension to my life as a home cook. The wok and the cleaver became my best friends in the kitchen and the experiments have not stopped to this day.
For decades, I could never cook a stir fry without the inevitable sauce thickened with starch. Then, I learned to differentiate between corn and tapioca starch and, during those times when I ran out of tapioca starch, I just couldn’t bring myself to use corn starch anymore. So, I learned to cook stir fries without the thickened sauce.
There are two steps in cooking this chicken and straw mushrooms in oyster sauce. The strips of chicken fillets are deep fried before they are stir fried with the rest of the ingredients (see stir frying basics).
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Hi. I love mushrooms! so i’ll definitely try this recipe. Thanks for the email updates. :lol:Though i was a really smiling when i completed the site to get an email update on your recipe since these days its your site that i visit first before openning my email! LOL
So its tapioca starch, i’m haven’t used that yet in thickening the sauce of my stir fry! Now i wouldn’t use flour at all! Tnx.
seems easy enough for me to try…. what can you substitute for chicken, connie??
if i dont have oyster sauce, can i just use ordinary soy sauce and corn starch to thicken the sauce?
will it still be delicious?
Hi Connie!
This recipe is fantastic! I made my not-a-fan-of-vegetables family this meal and I got pretty nice reviews. Thank u so much for sharing.
loida, flour makes the sauce look cloudy rather than clear. flour is great for gravy but not for asian stir fries.
brenda, you can still make the stir fry without the oyster sauce but it won’t taste the same. soy sauce is no substitute for oyster sauce. re substitute for chicken: try fish fillets.
You’re welcome, Quints. Stir fries are a great way to introduce veggies. The small sizes and the colors make the food more attractive.
Hi, Connie!
Would surely try this one. Reading it makes me hungry.Just one question, is there a difference between a sesame seed oil and sesame oil?
thanks
hi again con! it’s my first time to visit and join your blog yesterday, i was just looking for an easy recipe of special puto then i saw this recipe of yours. i found the ingredients so easy and it’s all available on my kitchen, when i went home last night i asked my husband what he wants for lunch the next day (today) and he just said chicken. By the way, since we are working & living here in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for such a long time, chicken, fish and beef is the only thing we have when it comes to meat (i miss pork a lot!). anyways, when i woke up this morning, it was a little late. at 12nn my husband will go home at lunch and it’s already 11am. Since i got everything in my kitchen i started doing your chicken & mushroom stir fry and at 11:45 exactly i finished! but you know i added broccoli to make the dish more colorful. my husband was surprised and happy when he saw something not fried on our table!:lol: then we ate and he wasnt talking at first which makes me nervous:???: after like 8-10 minutes he talked and say is this from the net again?… (hahaha!!!) i said yes and told him about this site and your way of giving cooking ideas and recipes.. he just said one thing… stick to that site! your getting better honey! wow! connie you just dont know how happy i am right now not to mention he gave me a good kiss and a nice hug after our lunch! thank you so much connie! you make me feel great! more power to you and your family! i miss Philippines more because of your site!
Yes, Cecille, they are the same.
i had a big smile on my face while reading your comment, Ann. I’m very happy for you. And for me too LOL. It feels good that I can help.
yah! wok with yan influenced me a lot! he inspire me siguro kaya favorite place ko sa house e kusina.. biruin mo batibot and wok with yan ang fav show ko (what a tandem.hehe) I was 6 or 7 yrs. ata that time
Waw.. i also want to try this. Pag bumili si mommy ng chicken i’ll definitely do this one.
Nakapgtry na ako mg stir fry before.. hmm.. i used it with my garlic kangkong.. tska sa isng pang dish.. chicken with hoisin sauce.. dpat may kasamang cashew nuts un eh but i removed the cashew nuts from the recipe since ayw ko ng nuts sa food.. feeling ko sagabal.. haha!
Thanks again ate connie