Name: Chicken Broccoli Stir Fry (extra sauce!)
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 6 min
Total time: 16 min
Yield: 5
Ingredients: Sauce (Note 5 for Charlie):; 2 tbsp cornflour/cornstarch; 3 tbsp soy sauce , all purpose or light (Note 1); 1 1/2 tbsp Chinese cooking wine or Mirin (Note 2); 3 tbsp oyster sauce (Note 3); 2 tsp sesame oil; Dash of white pepper (sub black); Stir Fry:; 2 tbsp oil , peanut, vegetable or canola; 1/2 onion , sliced; 2 garlic cloves , finely minced; 500g/1 lb chicken thighs or breast, thinly sliced (optional tenderise, Note 4); 400g/ 14 oz broccoli florets , broken/cut into small bite size pieces (2 medium heads, ~5 cups); 1 1/4 cups water

1. Soy Sauce -ordinary all purpose or light soy sauce. Do not use dark soy sauce - flavour is too strong and sauce will be very dark. See here for more information about different soy sauces.

2. Chinese Cooking Wine (Shaoxing Wine) - sub with dry sherry (near perfect sub). If you can't consume alcohol, use low sodium chicken broth in place of the cooking wine in the Sauce AND in place of the water, AND reduce oyster sauce by 1 tablespoon.

3. Vegetarian Oyster Sauce -Nowadays you can find vegetarian oyster sauce (suitable for vegans) even at supermarket.For example, Ayam Vegetarian Oyster Sauce. It's actually pretty good!

And here'shomemadeVegetarian Oyster Sauce recipe by Omnivore's Cookbook, a Chinese recipe blog. I wasextremely impressed with it.

4. Chicken - if using breast, option to tenderise using the Chinese method so it's super tender and juicy like you get at Chinese restaurants - seeHow to tenderise chicken the Chinese way (Velveting)

5.Charlie -to make this using Charlie (the affectionate name for my All Purpose Stir Fry Sauce!), use 7 tablespoons of Charlie instead of the Sauce in this recipe. The stir fry sauce in this recipe is basically Charlie.

6. Leftoverswill keep in the fridge for 3 to 4 days. I don't recommend freezing - sauces thickened with cornflour/cornstarch tend to become watery if frozen. But other than sauce thickness, flavour holds up just fine!

7. Nutrition per serving assuming 5 servings, excluding rice.

Chicken Broccoli Stir Fry (extra sauce!)

Ingredients

Sauce (note 5 For Charlie)

Stir Fry

Steps

Notes

Nutrition Facts