Chinese Chicken Stir Fry

One-pot dinners are quick, hearty, and comforting, and chicken stir fry is one such dish. While a low-calorie diet is important, one doesn’t have to starve; rice, meat, and sugar can be taken in moderation to maintain a healthy body. After all, our bodies need a reasonable fix of carbs and fat to carry out daily tasks without getting drained-out.

Health Benefits:

Chicken stir fry contains a good mix of protein, carbohydrate and moderate amounts of fat from sesame oil, which is also rich in vitamin E. Sesame oil also helps with knee and joint pains when taken internally or applied externally. This dish also contains plenty of chestnuts, which are high in fiber and aid digestion. They also contain vitamins B1, B2, and B5 and considerable amount of vitamin C and folates.

Ingredients

white rice: 2 cups

water: 3 cups

soy sauce: 2 tbsp cups

cornstarch: 1 tbsp

minced ginger: 1/2 tbsp

minced garlic: 1/2 tbsp

chili flakes: 1/4 tsp

chicken breasts—deskinned, deboned, and diced: 3

sesame oil: 1 tbsp

green capsicum—julienned: 1

chestnuts--sliced: 200 gm

broccoli florets: 1 cup

julienned carrots: 1 cup

julienned onion: 2 cups

How To Make Chinese Chicken Stir Fry

1. Soak rice for 20 minutes.
2. In a bowl, add corn starch, soy sauce, ginger, garlic, brown sugar and chili flakes and stir till corn starch dissolves completely.
3. Marinate chicken with this mixture and refrigerate for 20 minutes.
4. Heat a skillet over medium flame, and drizzle some oil.
5. Sauté onions until translucent, and follow with chestnuts, broccoli, capsicum and carrots, and stir until vegetables soften a little. Care must be taken no to cook vegetables completely.
6. Push vegetables to one side, add chicken, toss the chicken until it cooks partially. You may add some more oil, if needed.
7. Add soaked rice to the chicken-and-vegetable mixture and stir well over high flame for a minute.
8. Add remaining marinade and water, give the contents a quick stir, cover the skillet and let simmer.
9. Cover the skillet and let cool completely.

Your chicken stir fry is now ready. This meal makes 6 servings, and each serving constitutes 650 calories.

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