Ginger Chicken Stir Fry

Ginger Hen Stir Fry is a dish that’s scrumptious and simple to make even in case you’re not that skilled with stir-frying. And in case you don’t have a wok you may make this low-carb hen stir fry in a big frying pan. 

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You’ll have seen that I’m updating plenty of my oldest recipes and taking higher images! I by no means imagined after I began running a blog that it could flip into the ultra-competitive trade it’s now, and updating outdated recipes to indicate off the meals higher is so satisfying. And a few of my earlier images are fairly grotesque!

However generally after I re-do an outdated recipe with Kara, we aren’t wowed by the unique model and find yourself altering it a bit to get a recipe that’s as much as present requirements. That’s how we got here up with the Ginger Hen Stir Fry you see right here now! The brand new recipe has purple pepper strips and sugar snap peas including some shade and texture to the dish, and it’s simpler to make! And Kara and I believed this was actually tasty, get pleasure from!

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Important Suggestions for Stir Frying:

A few years in the past I took a Chinese language Cooking class and realized these important ideas for stir fry cooking. Ensuring you observe the following pointers will give higher outcomes whenever you stir fry:

1. Preheat the wok (earlier than you place the oil in).
2. Season the oil (by briefly cooking entire items of garlic and ginger root, which you take away whenever you add the meals to be cooked).
3. Symmetry of reduce (all items should be reduce the identical measurement and form).
4. Have all substances reduce and sauces combined earlier than you prepare dinner.
5. Use very excessive warmth and prepare dinner quick.

What in case you don’t have a wok to make this Ginger Hen Stir Fry?

I’m an enormous fan of stir-fry cooking so I’ve a number of woks, which are perfect for one of these dish. However in case you don’t have a wok you possibly can positively make this Ginger Hen Stir Fry in a big frying pan.

What offers the ginger taste on this Ginger Hen Stir Fry?

Minced ginger root is the important ingredient that offers the ginger taste to this recipe. When you’ve got the time and persistence to peel recent ginger root and chop it up, that may actually give nice taste. However it’s also possible to use Minced Ginger (affiliate hyperlink) that’s bought within the produce part in a small jar, and that may nonetheless be scrumptious.

How low in carbs is that this hen stir fry with ginger?

This tasty stir-fry dinner has 7.7 internet carbs and 21 grams of protein!

Can the Ginger Hen Stir Fry be gluten-free?

So long as you utilize Gluten-Free Soy Sauce (affiliate hyperlink) and Gluten-Free Oyster Sauce (affiliate hyperlink) this recipe might be gluten-free.

How you can Make Ginger Hen Stir Fry:

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1. Trim hen breasts and reduce into strips.
2. Reduce ends off purple pepper, take away seeds, and reduce the pepper into strips. Trim ends from sugar-snap peas and reduce every one in half lengthwise.
3. Peel garlic cloves, and reduce a couple of slices of recent ginger root.
4. Slice inexperienced onions on the diagonal.
5. Combine soy sauce or Gluten-Free Soy Sauce, Oyster Sauce or Gluten-Free Oyster Sauce, sesame oil, Monkfruit Sweetener (affiliate hyperlink) or sweetener of your alternative, rice vinegar, and minced ginger root (or Minced Ginger from a jar) to make the stir-fry sauce.
6. Put wok or frying pan over excessive warmth and warmth the dry pan for about 1 minute.
7. Add 2 T Peanut Oil, and warmth the oil 1 minute. Then add slices of ginger and garlic cloves and prepare dinner 1-2 minutes, simply till you begin to scent garlic and ginger. Discard garlic and ginger slices.
8. Add hen and prepare dinner for about 4 minutes, stirring always, till hen is sort of cooked by means of and barely beginning to brown.
9. Add purple pepper strips and sugar snap peas and prepare dinner 2-3 minutes, cooking always.
10. Add inexperienced onion and prepare dinner about 1 minute extra, nonetheless stirring.
11. Add sauce and prepare dinner 2-3 minutes, stirring because it cooks, till the sauce is barely thickened and coats the substances.
12. Serve scorching.

Make it a low-carb Meal:

This straightforward ginger hen stir fry might be a tasty one-dish meal for 2 folks, or add one thing like Straightforward Air Fryer Asian Inexperienced Beans or Roasted Broccoli with Garlic for a tasty low-carb meal for 4 folks.

Extra Tasty Dinners with Hen:

Low-Carb Weight-reduction plan / Low-Glycemic Weight-reduction plan / South Seashore Weight-reduction plan Strategies:
So long as you utilize an permitted sweetener, this Ginger Hen Stir Fry is nice for low-carb, Keto, and low-glycemic diets and for any part of the unique South Seashore Weight-reduction plan. 

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Historic Notes for this Recipe:
Ginger Hen Stir Fry was first posted in November 2005! The model you see right here now was up to date (and adjusted fairly a bit) in February 2020, but when anybody lands right here who was a fan of the unique Ginger Hen you’ll find the printer-friendly recipe at that hyperlink. The recipe was final up to date with extra data in 2024.

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