Easy Ginger Scallion Chicken Stir Fry | Done in 30 minutes!

Today we’re making a super easy and quick chicken stir fry, but bursting with flavour. I love ginger, and I make this stir fry pretty often in my house. The scallions also lend a nice onion-y flavour, while adding some nice colour to this rather bland-looking dish. It doesn’t look like much, but trust me it tastes amazing.

Ginger

Ginger is of course the most important ingredient here. The ginger is used in both the marinating process and in the stir frying. For marinating, you want it as fine as possible – I used a grater but you can also puree it or finely mince with a knife.

For the stir frying portion, the more familiar shape would be the thin julienned ginger slices. You can do this as well. I chopped mine into larger slices so that I can pick it apart from the chicken a lot easier. As much as I love the ginger taste, I’m not a big fan of biting into one.

Scallions vs Green Onions vs Spring Onions

For the purposes of this recipe, they are all interchangeable. Scallions and green onions are the same thing, while spring onions are just minutely different. Scallions do not have a small onion bulb at its root, and basically grows thin and straight throughout. In cooking, both scallions and spring onions end up tasting the same.

For both spring onions and scallions, you want the thicker white portion – this is where most of the intense flavour is. Do not discard the top green half, they also have incredible flavour and we are tossing it into the dish too.

If you don’t have scallions or spring onions, then you can easily replace it with regular onions or chives.

Ingredients:

• 300g Chicken
• Marinated with:
  • 1 tsp Ginger, grated
  • 1 tsp Light Soy Sauce
  • 1/2 tsp White Pepper
  • 1 tsp Cornstarch
• 1 inch Ginger, sliced
• 2-3 cloves Garlic
• 2-3 stalks Spring Onions or Scallions
• 1 tsp Sesame Oil (optional)
• Sauce Base:
  • 100ml Unsalted Chicken Stock or Water
  • 1 tbsp Oyster Sauce
  • 1 tsp Light Soy Sauce
  • 1 tsp Dark Soy Sauce
  • 1 tsp Sugar
  • 1 tsp Cornstarch

Ginger and Scallion Chicken Stir Fry

Recipe by Sha

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Course: Recipes

Servings

4

servings

Prep time

15

minutes

Cooking time

15

minutes

Ingredients

• 300g Chicken

• 1 tsp Ginger, grated

• 1 tsp Light Soy Sauce

• 1/2 tsp White Pepper

• 1 tsp Cornstarch

• 1 inch Ginger, sliced

• 2-3 cloves Garlic
  2-3 stalks Spring Onions or Scallions

• 1 tsp Sesame Oil (optional)

• Sauce Bowl of Efficiency:

• 100ml Unsalted Chicken Stock or Water

• 1 tbsp Oyster Sauce

• 1 tsp Light Soy Sauce

• 1 tsp Dark Soy Sauce

• 1 tsp Sugar

• 1 tsp Cornstarch

Directions

• Marinate sliced chicken with grated ginger, light soy sauce, ground white pepper and cornstarch. Stir through and let it marinade for about 10-15 minutes, or while you prepare the other ingredients.
• Prepare the seasoning sauce bowl of efficiency and keep to one side.
• In a pan, add oil. Once hot, add in sliced ginger, bottom white portions of the scallions, and minced garlic. Saute until fragrant.
• Add marinated chicken next. Give it a quick stir fry, and then let the chicken sear to cook. Let the chicken pieces cook and sear on one side, and then flip to the other side to cook through.
• When chicken is cooked, add in the seasoning sauce. Stir through and let sauce boil and thicken.
• Add in the rest of the scallions, or the top green leafy portion, and sesame oil, if using. Done!

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