How to Make Chicken Stir Fry in Ten Minutes

!±8± How to Make Chicken Stir Fry in Ten Minutes

Chicken is a great ingredient when you want to make dinner in a hurry because it cooks quickly. Like most ingredients, the smaller you cut it up the faster the pieces cook. For example, if you chop a chicken breast into twenty little cubes, you can cook them in three or four minutes. If you cook the chicken breast whole, it might take twenty minutes because it is much thicker.

Stir fries are popular because there are so many variations. You can use any kind of meat, poultry, or fish. Also, this is a good cooking method for various vegetables. If you are going to combine vegetables with longer cooking times (such as carrots or cauliflower) with those needing much less (mushrooms or bean sprouts, for example), you should parboil the denser ones or start cooking those first.

The easiest way to make a ten minute stir fry is to add a little oil, butter, or cooking spray to a wok and add the ingredients, which take the longest first, and then add the remaining ingredients and chicken. Finally add a sauce or some seasoning and your stir fry is complete.

Is a Wok Better Than a Skillet?

A wok is similar to a skillet but it has high, sloping slides. This makes it ideal for moving the meat and vegetables around without spilling them over the sides. A skillet is better for frying bacon or cooking steaks, because it has a larger base and you do not need high sides for this. Woks come in different sizes but a big one is easiest to use. Obviously, you do not have to fill it completely.

Another reason why you should use a wok for making a chicken stir fry recipe is that you will be adding a sauce and using a cooking pan with high sides means that you can toss everything together thoroughly in the wok.

Step by Step Guide to Chicken Stir Fry

After adding some fat to your wok and letting it warm up, you can add your prepared dense vegetables. Cut carrots into matchstick shapes, broccoli into very thin slivers and onions into thin rings or finely chopped pieces. The reason for cutting everything thinly is because it cooks much faster. While these vegetables are cooking, chop your chicken into small cubes or small diagonal slices, stirring the contents of the wok occasionally.

After three or four minutes, add the chicken to the pan and keep stirring it. Prepare any softer, fast-cooking ingredients like mushrooms or green beans and add those. Add a handful of cashew nuts if you like too. They are great with chicken stir fry recipes. Bring a pot of water to a boil and add some egg noodles.

Finally, add any ingredients to the wok, which just have to heat up, rather than cook. Examples of these ingredients would be canned bamboo shoots or bean sprouts, pineapple chunks or slices of fresh banana. Pour in either a cooking sauce or some soy sauce. Teriyaki sauce is also nice to add to a stir fry. You can also add curry powder, salt, black pepper, or chili powder.

When everything is hot, check the chicken is done by slicing a piece in half. If it is white all the way through it is done. Serve the chicken stir fry with the egg noodles and you have a delicious meal, which the family will enjoy.