How To Quickly Cook A Final Honey Garlic Chicken Stir-Fry

Table of Contents

• Why You’ll Absolutely Love This Recipe
• The Secret Sauce of Honey Garlic
• The Complete Quick Honey Garlic Chicken Stir-Fry Recipe Ready to Start Cooking?
• An Insider's Secrets to Stir-Frying
• Leftover Storage and Reheating

Forget the takeout menu and those long waits. Our Quick Honey Garlic Chicken Stir-fry will be just as satisfying as any elaborate restaurant dish in 30 minutes. Given the reality this is a functioning supper saver is an added bonus for which we are really grateful.

This Honey Garlic Chicken Stir-Fry is perfectly suited to distracting yourself from your thoughts during the week. It's brimming with sweet and savory flavors, and everyone just begs for more.One of the culinary pleasures of life in the fast lane.

This dish proves you don't have to spend hours in the kitchen to make something really special and wholesome for your family. It's also full of rich, succulent honey garlic flavor--a highly palatable dish that's just plain fun to eat. What's more, it's quick!

We’ll delve deeply inside everything that's right about this recipe for a weeknight winner. From the straightforward ingredients to step-by-step instructions, pro tips to guarantee results every single time. Plus, we'll explore funny little variations and ways you can tailor it to your taste--after all, that’s where all the fun is.Come on! Get ready to cook your own quick stir-fry, and become an expert in the process.

Why You’ll Absolutely Love This Recipe

This is more than just another chicken recipe; it’s your meal routine game-changer. That's why it's the king of kitchen favorites year in and year out.Incredible Fast: About 20 minutes from start to finish. This makes it a quick weeknight dinner that's easy on yourschedule.

Packed with Flavor: The homemade honey garlic sauce. It is a perfect harmony of sweet honey and savory soy sauce with a touch of zesty garlic and a hint of ginger, so every piece of chicken as well as all our vegetables are bathed deliciously in just the right blend.

Healthy and Wholesome: This is one of the healthy stir-fry ideas that doesn't sacrifice taste. The chicken adds protein and the veggies nutrients for a good meal. You can fine-tune the random ingredients to match your preferences, so that sodium and sugar intake are under control.

Whatever ingredients you don't have lemon, bok choy, or small maypel peppers can be substituted for those. Want to add a little kick? A few shakes of sriracha will do.

If you want the taste of this sauce, simply decide your main ingredients based on the way the wind blows.

The Secret Sauce of Honey Garlic

The soul of this dish is its sauce. Bottled versions are chock-full of sugar, sodium, and preservatives. Making your own is both healthier than buying it and surprisingly easy. This way you can adjust the sauce to suit your very personal taste.

A great sauce can turn a good stir-fry into an amazing one.

Homemade honey garlic sauce is pure gold. But only when you strike the right balance between its primary components: soy sauce gives it a salty, umami base, while honeycons addition of natural sweetness caramelizes beautifully in the wok.Freshly minced garlic and fresh ginger bring a warm and insistent earthly taste which uplifts the entire dish.Finally, a cornstarch slurry thickens the sauce so that it clings to your chicken and vegetables with a glossy irresistible finish.

The recipe needs of course a Honey Garlic Sauce

Before we begin our special meal, let's gather together a few simple items that will help make this great sauce.

• Low-Sodium Soy Sauce: Provides the savory foundation.
• Honey: Adds sweetness and helps to create that beautiful glaze.
• Fresh Garlic: The fresher the better, and the stronger the flavor.
• Fresh Ginger: A warm, zesty undercurrent to accompany the garlic.
• Rice Vinegar: A slightly acidic touch to lighten and balance the flavors.
• Sesame Oil: Gives it a kind of nutty, aromatic depth of taste.
• Cornstarch: The agent that binds it all together.

When all mixed tight, you have a sauce no restaurant could compete with.

The Complete Quick Honey Garlic Chicken Stir-Fry Recipe Ready to Start Cooking?

This easy chicken stir-fry recipe is built for speed and simplicity. By breaking it down into doable steps, even the beginner cook can do a good job. Prep time: 10 minutes Cook time: 15 minutes Total time: 25 minutes Servings: 4 Ingredients You’ll Need For the Stir-Fry:

• 1.5 lbs boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into 1-inch cubes Press here for more details
• 1 tablespoon olive oil or avocado oil
• 4 cups broccoli florets
• 1 carrot, thinly sliced or even julienned
• 1 red bell pepper, sliced
• 1 small onion, sliced
• Garnishes if you desire them: sesame seeds, sliced green onions, crushed red pepper flakes

For the Honey Garlic Sauce:

• 1/2 cup low-sodium SOY SAUCE (use Tamari for a gluten-free alternative)
• 1/3 cup honey
• 4 cloves garlic pMinced
• 1 tablespoon fresh ginger, grated
• 1 tablespoon rice vinegar
• 1 teaspoon sesame oil
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch whisked with 2 tablespoons cold water (cornstarch slurry)

Step-by-Step Instructions

Follow these steps to create your delicious stir-fry masterpiece.

Step 1: Prepare Your Ingredients (Mise en Place)

Since stir-frying is quick, it's essential to have everything ready to go before you turn on the stove. Cut the chicken into uniform sized bite-sized pieces. Wash & chop all your vegetables. Mince garlic and grate ginger. In a small bowl, whisk together the sauce ingredients except for the cornstarch slurry. Set it aside. Prepare the slurry in a separate small bowl.

Step 2: Cook the Chicken

In a large skillet, wok or pan heat oil over medium-high heat. The pan should be hot before you add the chicken.

Add the chicken pieces in a single layer. Keep the pan from overfilling. Cook for 3-4 minutes, turning occasionally, until golden brown and cooked through.

Once cooked, remove the chicken from the pan and set it aside.

Step 3: Cook the Vegetables

Add the onion and carrots to the pan. Stir-fry for 2-3 minutes until soft.

This is a tough vegetable, it has to go in before the rest.

Add the broccoli florets and red bell pepper to the pan.Cook for another 4-5 minutes. If the vegetables are tender but still crisp, that is the right texture.

Step 4: Combine and Sauce

Return the cooked chicken to the skillet with the vegetables.

Give your prepared honey garlic sauce a quick whisk, and then pour it over the chicken and vegetables. Toss all until the sauce is consistent.

Bring the sauce to a boil. Let it thicken up for about a minute.

Step 5: Thicken the Sauce

Whisk your cornstarch mix once more to make sure it is blended, then pour it into the sauce and stir as you pour.

Stir continuously for another 1-2 minutes. The sauce should thicken very quickly, turning into a beautiful glaze over everything in the pan. You will see the change.

Once the sauce reaches the consistency you want, take the pot off the stove.

Step 6: Serve and Garnish

Eat your Quick Honey Garlic Chicken Stir-fry right away over rice, quinoa, or noodles.Garnish with a sprinkle of sesame seeds and freshly sliced green onions for a splash of color and flavor. If you like things a bit spicy, throw in some red pepper flakes as well.

An Insider's Secrets to Stir-Frying

Would you like to move from an OK standard of stir-frying to a truly great one? Here are a few guidelines for success.

• Get That Direct Heats: You need a really hot wok or skillet to successfully sear food. If you don't, the only thing that'll happen is your material being done through and through. Dice up some of the chicken; let it go in there.
• Line Up Don't Load: Pack your wok with too much and the temp of it will drop, causing half-soggy vegetables and partially cooked chicken. If you are doubling the recipe, cook in several batches--first the chicken and then the vegetables.
• Cut Everything the Same Size: The idea is to cut your ingredients into identical sizes so that they all finish cooking at the same time. Otherwise, some are done but others not even started...
• Work in Stages: Pan-cooking it all together had better be quick because no portion of the original recipe thinks very well of that plan. For instance, cook the carrot and onion first; then add tomato and cabbage lastly.
• Use fresh ingredients: Although garlic powder and ground ginger will do, the taste is better with fresh garlic and ginger. It is brighter and more aromatic as well.

Fun Add-Ons for Other Dishes That Are as Much FunEngineering some variety into your stir-fried chicken tends to be the best part of this mix. Feel free to experiment and come up with variations of your own!

Here are a few nutritious, stir-fry suggestions Check them all out for brands or packages which recommend more precise use and storage information:

• Switch The Meat: A taste of chicken with this recipe also goes nicely into shrimp or thinly cut pork steak. Those who want a vegetarian meal might substitute them altogether for cooked chickpeas or fried tofu.
• More Vegetables: Snow pea pods, mushrooms, Chinese cabbage, squash, water chestnuts—are all easily used.
• For even greater variety, four, five, and now five other varieties originating from western leaves is certain to whet your appetite.
• Spice It Enjoying a Little Bit More : The hot-food fan can put some extra sriracha, a little red pepper flakes, or diced red chilis into the mix.
• A handful of cashews or peanuts can be added during the final minute of cooking for growling success, the perfect combination of crunch and extra protein.
• Serving Swaps: Stir-fry goes great with rice, and also quinoa, brown rice, or cauliflower rice for a low-carb alternative. However, if lo mein noodles tickle your palate...

Leftover Storage and Reheating

It is a perfect lunch the next day!

Storage: The prepared stir-fry should be set aside to cool completely before transferring it (to an airtight container). It will keep refrigerated for 3-4 days.

Reheating: For the best results, reheat your stir-fry in a skillet over medium heat until warmed through. This way the vegetables remain crisp. You can also microwave in short bursts but remember that the vegetables may soften up more

This Quick Honey Garlic Chicken Stir-fry is more than just a meal. It is a versatile, delicious and efficient way to prepare dinner for the healthy New Age eater. It’s the kind of recipe that you can come back to again and again.

Have fun trying it out! Make this recipe for a quick weeknight meal and let us know what you did in the comments section, Ezra. Whether you had a delightful dining experience, interesting photographs to share or came up with some creative twists of your own, we’d love to see them.