Chicken stir-fry with orange ginger sauce
A weeknight stir-fry that builds around this bright, spiced sauce. Chicken cooks quickly in a hot pan while vegetables soften, then everything comes together in minutes with the sauce coating the whole dish.
About 460 calories a serving, 49 g protein, 25 g carbohydrate, 21 g fat. From USDA figures for 100% of the ingredients; amounts are the recipe's.
To buy
- 12 ounces boneless skinless chicken breast
- 3 cups broccoli florets
From your shelf
- 1 jar orange ginger homestyle recipe sauce, orange ginger (Lunds & Byerlys)
Staples
- 2 tablespoons oil
- to taste salt
- to taste pepper
- 2 cloves garlic
- Cut 12 ounces of chicken into bite-sized pieces and pat dry. Season with salt and pepper.
- Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat until shimmering. Add the chicken and cook 5 to 6 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the pieces turn opaque on all sides.
- Push the chicken to the side of the pan and add 3 cups of broccoli florets. Cook 3 to 4 minutes, stirring often, until the broccoli starts to brown.
- Mince 2 cloves of garlic and add to the pan, stirring constantly for 30 seconds until fragrant. Pour in the jar of orange ginger sauce, stirring to coat everything evenly, then cook 2 minutes more until the sauce thickens and the broccoli is tender-crisp.
Note Swap the broccoli for snap peas, bell peppers, or mushrooms as you have them. Leftovers keep in a covered container for three days and reheat gently in the microwave; serve over rice or noodles. Stretch the dish by serving over rice or adding cooked rice to the pan.
On the label
WATER, BROWN SUGAR, FRESH ORANGE JUICE, LEMON JUICE SOY SAUCE (WATER, WHEAT, SOYBEANS, SALT, SODIUM BENZOATE [AS PRESERVATIVE]), RICE VINEGAR (DILUTED WITH WATER TO 4.3% ACIDITY), GINGER PUREE (GINGER, CITRIC ACID), MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, ORANGE ZEST, SESAME OIL, VEGETABLE BASE (VEGETABLE PUREE [ONION, CARROT, CELERY, GARLIC], SALT, CORN SYRUP CORN STARCH, YEAST EXTRACT, CORN OIL, SUGAR, TOMATO POWDER, NATURAL FLAVOR, WINE [CONTAINS SULFITES]), MINCED GARLIC (GARLIC, WATER CITRIC ACID), RED PEPPER FLAKES.
Lunds & Byerlys, oriental, mexican & ethnic sauces, serving 30 g, package 12 oz/340 g. Ingredients as printed on the label.
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Cooks as ginger, oranges. Half of it left? Use up the ginger.