Straightforward Rooster and Broccoli — A Fast and Saucy Stir Fry

Few issues make me really feel like I’m crushing life like having dinner prepped and able to cook dinner within the fridge.

#adulting

Taking 10 minutes on the weekend to prep the elements of Rooster and Broccoli Stir Fry ensures this straightforward but flavorful meal will go from fridge to desk in about quarter-hour. It’s the proper wholesome dish for hectic weeknights!

Flavored with sesame, ginger, and garlic, hen broccoli stir fry is additional saucy and an entire meal in a single, checking off the protein, veggie, and carb packing containers. My household, particularly my husband, LOVES this simple hen and rice recipe!

Components Wanted

This easy stir fry with a thick and luscious sauce requires kitchen staples. Raid the fridge and pantry for…

• Broccoli: snag a 12oz bag of broccoli florets on the retailer then trim them up so that they’re all the identical dimension. Straightforward!
• Rooster breast: cooks rapidly within the sizzling wok or skillet.
• Sesame oil: is used to stir fry the hen and add a ton of taste to the dish.
• Cornstarch: thickens the stir fry sauce so it’s thick and bubbly.
• Rooster broth or water: is added to the cornstarch to create a easy sauce.
• Tamari: gives that signature, Asian-style stir fry taste. I extremely suggest San-J reduced-sodium gluten free Tamari — the flavour is wonderful! Should you don’t have to eat gluten free, you should use conventional, reduced-sodium soy sauce.
• Honey: provides a touch of sweetness to the sauce.
• Rice vinegar: balances the candy honey and savory Tamari.
• Garlic and ginger paste: add craveable taste.
• Purple chili pepper flakes: add slightly or so much — it’s completely as much as you!

Customise Your Stir Fry

This broccoli hen stir fry is extraordinarily straight-forward, however I like to consider it as a little bit of a clean canvas. That mentioned, listed here are just a few methods to make it your individual:

• Rooster swap: use boneless, skinless hen thighs as a substitute of hen breasts. Remember to reduce them into small bite-sized items, and plan on tacking on just a few additional minutes of cooking time within the sizzling wok. Diced shrimp would even be scrumptious!
• Add veggies: one vegetable my whole household can agree on is broccoli, which is why I like it as the bottom of this recipe. That mentioned, be happy so as to add diced zucchini, child corn, bell peppers, inexperienced beans, onions, asparagus, and so on. Stir fry these individually in a little bit of oil earlier than stir frying the hen, then stir the cooked greens into the sauce on the finish.
• Add nuts: we love including cashews to the sauce on the finish to heat by, or topping our bowls with minced peanuts. Love that additional taste and crunch.

Meal Prep Tip

Like I mentioned, it is a nice meal to prep as much as 3 days forward of time so it goes from the fridge to the desk additional fast. Right here’s prep the three elements forward of time:

1. Rooster: cube the hen breasts into bite-sized items then retailer them in an hermetic container.
2. Broccoli: trim the broccoli florets so that they’re all the identical dimension then retailer in an hermetic container or gallon-size Ziplock bag.
3. Stir fry sauce: stir collectively the stir fry sauce then retailer in an hermetic container.

Alrighty! This recipe is as simple as it’s scrumptious — let me present you make it!

Strive Straightforward Rooster Fried Rice

The way to Make Rooster and Broccoli

Step 1: Make the Stir Fry Sauce

Begin by stirring collectively the stir fry sauce. In a bowl or glass measuring dish, add cornstarch and water or hen broth then stir till the cornstarch is easy.

Cornstarch makes the sauce thick and shiny like a restaurant’s.

Subsequent add gluten free reduced-sodium Tamari, honey, rice vinegar, minced garlic, ginger paste, and a pinch (or kind of) of pink chili pepper flakes. Stir to mix then set the sauce apart.

Step 2: Steam the broccoli

Similar to my Beef and Broccoli recipe, I wish to steam the broccoli separate from the sauce so it doesn’t change into soggy. No person likes soggy broccoli!

I additionally like doing this as a result of the broccoli steams whereas the hen and sauce are cooking, making the general cooking time shorter.

All that mentioned, place a steamer basket inside a medium-sized cooking pot then add a pair inches of water. Add the broccoli then flip the warmth to excessive to carry the water to a boil. Place a lid on high then flip the warmth all the way down to low and steam for 6-7 minutes or till the broccoli is tender.

Step 3: Stir fry the hen

Whereas the broccoli is steaming, warmth a wok or massive skillet over excessive warmth. Add sesame oil then, as soon as sizzling, add diced hen breast and season with salt and pepper.

Let the hen items sit and sear undisturbed till the bottoms are golden brown, 1-2 minutes, then stir fry till the hen is sort of cooked by, 2-3 extra minutes.

As all the time, I’ll take this chance to share how child Kristin procured this wok from Curtis Stone within the flesh. #neverforget

Step 4: Add the Stir Fry Sauce

Give the stir fry sauce a stir to reincorporate the cornstarch, which is able to settle to the underside of the bowl, then add it to the wok and switch the warmth down barely. Stir with a spatula till the sauce is thickened and bubbly, 1-2 minutes.

That’s all she wrote!

Scoop cooked rice onto plates then high with the cooked hen and sauce, plus completely steamed broccoli.

Cooking rice forward of time is one other certainly one of my favourite meal prep methods. Cook dinner, fluff, cool, then retailer the rice in an hermetic container within the fridge for as much as 3 days. Reheat within the microwave and also you’re set!

Whether or not you’re meal prepping for a fast weeknight dinner, or making this tasty dish on the fly — I hope you like each savory, saucy chew. Get pleasure from!

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