Chicken & vegetables stir-fry

April 24, 2003
Filed under Asian cooking, Chinese recipes

chicken and vegetables stir fry

Texture + color + aroma + taste = an excellent dish. Successful stirfrying is a technique. First, make sure you have all the ingredients prepared and cut start. Never try to prepare food while stir-frying. Second, the order in which the vegetables should go to the skillet depends upon which takes the longest to cook–the longest to cook go first, and so on. Third, do not lower the heat or crowd the skillet in such a way that the temperature will drop too much. Stirfrying is essentially frying over very high heat over a short period of time. With all that in mind, try this easy stirfry — 10 minutes to prepare and 15 minutes to cook. Easy, fast, nutritious and absolutely delicious!

Ingredients :

1 whole spring chicken (about 1-1/4 lbs.), cut into 10-12 pieces
1 head garlic, minced
1 onion, diced
1 carrot, cubed
1/2 c. sweet peas
1 c. snow peas
1 tbsp. cornstarch dissolved in 1/2 c. water, and mixed with 2 tbsp. oyster sauce and 1/2 tsp. sugar and 1/2 tsp. sesame seed oil
2 tbsp. dark soy sauce
ground black pepper
2-3 tbsp. cooking oil

Cooking procedure :

Heat a wok or skillet. Pour in the cooking oil. Over very high heat, add chicken pieces, one after the other (not too fast or the temperature will drop and you’ll end up braising the chicken instead of stirfrying it). Brown the chicken pieces (this will take about 10 minutes). Add garlic and onion. Stir for 15 seconds. Add soy sauce and pepper (to taste; I used 1/2 tsp.). Add carrots. Stir for 1 minute (longer if you’re using mature carrots). Add snow peas. Stir for 15 seconds. Add sweet peas and stir for 10 more seconds. Add cornstarch mixture and stir until the sauce thickens. Turn off heat. Serve at once.

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Comments

4 Comments on "Chicken & vegetables stir-fry"

maynard on Thu, 12th Apr 2007 6:01 pm

hello,

may recipe and instruction ba to? i am in nigeria and i miss this kind of dish.

salamat po.

Connie on Sat, 14th Apr 2007 2:49 am

There is a link to page 2……….

bambi estarez on Mon, 31st Dec 2007 6:06 am

i now live out of the country and stumbled upon your blog while i was desperately seeking recipes to cook for my family. When we were still living in quezon city, i was such a busy employee that my husband and i find it convenient to buy cooked food from a nearby carinderia suki or we just go to banawe and order take out.

now, i really have to cook but my skills and knowledge have rusted quite a bit. this holiday season, old friends from the phils and i held a small get together party which was unplanned. i only had chicken in my fridge. i went to your blog again and found this chicken and vegetable stir fry recipe. It was a hit with my former officemates.

i’m aching to try cooking your chicken with sour cream recipe. matter of fact, i bought the sour cream already.

i miss banawe a lot though coz it is such a foodie’s haven. i was wondering how i could’ve not noticed the restaurant you mentioned that sells excellent duck in araneta avenue. tapos, yung vieux chalet, na miss ko din. parang gusto ko na tuloy umuwi. ang hilig ko kasi kumain.

anyway, i thank you so much for your blog. it is such a big help.

Connie on Mon, 31st Dec 2007 9:13 am

Bambi, Shuin along Araneta Avenue is relatively new (not quite five years old, I think). So, if you’ve been living abroad for far longer, I don’t think you could have seen it. I hope it’ll be still there when you’re ready to take a vacation. As will Vieux Chalet.