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Chicken Stir Fry
One of the most important techniques in Chinese cooking is stir fry. If you love Chinese food, you have to master this technique.
Many popular Chinese recipes are simple chicken stir fry where raw chicken are sliced to pieces, velveted with corn starch, and then stir-fried in a hot wok or skillet.
In this recipe tutorial, you will learn how to make tender and juicy chicken just like Chinese restaurants.
Onion and scallions are two common ingredients but when they are combined with chicken and flash cooked through stir fry with a crazy delicious brown sauce, you will have a dish that is sure to please, even the pickiest eater.
Chinese Brown Sauce
Many people love the savory brown sauce in many Chinese stir fry dishes. The brown sauce is amazing when drizzled on top of steamed rice or chow mein.
It also adds great flavors to proteins such as chicken and beef. The best recipe for Chinese brown sauce calls for oyster sauce, soy sauce, sesame oil, white pepper and corn starch, which you will learn in my recipe section.
The sauce shouldn’t be gooey but nicely coat the ingredients.
How Many Calories per Serving?
This recipe is only 327 calories per serving.
What Dishes to Serve with This Recipe?
For a wholesome meal and easy weeknight dinner, I recommend the following recipes.
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Onion Scallion Chicken
Ingredients
- 8 oz (230g) boneless and skinless chicken breasts, thinly sliced
- 2 tablespoon cooking oil
- 3 stalks scallion (cut into 2-inch (5cm) strips)
- 1/2 onion (sliced)
- 1- inch (2.5cm) ginger, peeled and sliced
Marinade:
- 1 teaspoon corn starch
- 1 teaspoon Chinese Shaoxing rice wine or dry sherry
Brown Sauce:
- 2 teaspoons oyster sauce
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1/4 teaspoon dark soy sauce for coloring purpose (optional)
- 3 dashes ground white pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon sesame oil
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon corn starch
- 3 tablespoons water
Instructions
- Marinate the chicken with all the ingredients in marinade for 10 minutes. Mix all the ingredients in the Sauce in a small bowl. Set aside.
- Heat up a wok or skillet with 1 tablespoon of the cooking oil and stir-fry the marinated chicken until the surface turns white (half done). Dish out and set aside.
- Heat up the remaining oil and stir-fry the onion and ginger until aromatic. Add the chicken into the wok or skillet and do a few quick stirs before adding the Sauce.
- Continue to stir-fry until the chicken is completely cooked, then add the scallions into the wok. Do a few quick stirs, dish out and serve hot with steamed rice.
Nutrition
Notice: Nutrition is auto-calculated, using Spoonacular, for your convenience. Where relevant, we recommend using your own nutrition calculations.
This was really good! I doubled the recipe (had to make enough for my family haha), added carrots and diced up the ginger so it wasn’t in slices. It was delicious!
Hi Stacey, awesome, so glad you like it. Please try more recipes on my site: https://rasamalaysia.com/recipe-index-gallery/
Hi Bee,
Is it possible to use shrimp in this recipe, and if so, what changes should I make?
Thank you so much! ?
Hi Shane, sure you can!
Thank you so much for this recipe. It is fabulous!!! Will definitely make this again.
Hi Meredith, that’s awesome. Please try more recipes on my site: https://rasamalaysia.com/recipe-index-gallery/
I just made this dish for lunch and it was brilliant, so simple yet flavorful. Thank you for sharing this :).
I was planning to make it anyway but now I can enjoy it without feeling guilty. :-) Thanks!
Awesome.
I have had Chow Mein all my life mostly in San Francisco at Johnny Khans . Such a wonderful guy , Chef and Owner but I have never had Chow Mein with noodles. We always had it everywhere even in Beverly Hills several times with Bean Sprouts never noodle. May I have this recipe with Bean Sprouts?
Hi Lois, chow mein means fried noodles. There is no chow mein without noodles.
Since I am not allowed to eat noodles I will have to think of another addition. Your recipes are amazing and I am so anxious to try this!
Hi Lois, thanks for your sweet comment. Yes all my recipes taste delicious and amazing.
Do you have a recipe box where we can save our favorite dishes? I do not do Facebook or P.
Hi Leona, sorry I don’t have a recipe box. :(
Hi,
Looks delicious and I’m planning on making it! I do have a question about the nutrition information. When you calculate the total, are you including the rice or noodles the chicken is served with? Based on the ingredients, I’m not seeing where the 671 calories per serving are coming from. Or am I missing something?
Thank you!
I am using a website to calculate and sometimes it’s not reliable. I don’t see how it’s so high either. Let me recalculate.
The nutrition label is wrong. Updated. Only 360 calories.
Thank you! I was planning to make it anyway but now I can enjoy it without feeling guilty. :-)
Hi, could we just have the recipe (ingredients and method) without having the narration and advertisements in the PDF printout?
Thanks and regards,
After reading so many comments about your recipes I think I will just get your Chinese Recipes Cookbook.My head is swimming with all the substitutions offered. Will your book tell me what to use if I can’t find ingredients locally? I sure hope so! I am in need of “REAL” Chinese food.Your readers can talk about how to say or spell a dish. Or whether it is authentic or not. Bottom line is foods from the Orient have become a large part of American cuisine.Your comments and recipes are a huge attempt to make it the best we can have here. Thank you for your patience and dedication in helping us get the best we can get where ever we are.Does Amazon carry your cookbooks? B Karr
Hi Barbara, yes, you should get my cookbook. It’s on Amazon, it has the highest rating in Chinese cookery book and it’s very useful and practical. https://www.amazon.com/Easy-Chinese-Recipes-Family-Favorites/dp/0804841470/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1520139301&sr=8-3&keywords=easy+chinese+recipes
This look’s delicious and going to Pin to try this month.
Hi Marilyn, awesome, yes you will like this onion scallion chicken.