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Chicken and Broccoli - Learn how to make the best and most popular Chinese chicken and broccoli stir-fried in a brown sauce the healthy, homemade way!
Chinese Chicken And Broccoli
I have a bunch of amazing Chinese recipes to share with you, starting with a family favorite, chicken and broccoli.
Looking for more broccoli recipes? Check out my Shrimp and Broccoli recipe!
Easy Chicken And Broccoli Stir Fry
This Chicken and Broccoli recipe is one of my child’s favorite Chinese chicken stir-fry dishes. He loves the tender chicken, and he has always loved broccoli, and the savory and yummy brown sauce completes the dish.
A few years ago, I wrote a best-selling Chinese cookbook “Easy Chinese Recipes” and I talked about the techniques of making chicken tender that produces Chinese restaurant quality dishes.
For more information on how to make chicken and broccoli as well as many other recipes, you can buy it on Amazon.
Healthy Chicken And Broccoli At Home
This super easy recipe tastes just like your favorite Chinese takeout joints, if not better. This homemade version is also less greasy and healthier!
You can change the protein and make it into broccoli beef.
Frequently Asked Questions
This recipe is only 225 calories per serving.
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Chicken and Broccoli
Ingredients
- 1/2 lb (250g) chicken breast, cut into cubes
- 1/2 tablespoon cornstarch
- 1 pinch salt
- 1/2 lb (250g) broccoli florets
- 2 tablespoons oil
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
Sauce:
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon oyster sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon sesame oil
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon cornstarch
- 1/2 cup water
- 3 dashes ground white pepper
Instructions
- Marinate the chicken with cornstarch and salt. If the chicken is too dry, add a little water to ensure each piece is nicely coated with the cornstarch.
- Heat up a pot of water and bring it to a boil. Cook the broccoli for 1 minute, then drain and set aside.
- Heat up a wok or skillet on high heat and add the oil. Once the oil is heated, add the garlic and stir-fry until aromatic or lightly browned. Add the chicken and give it a few quick stirs. Then, add the sauce and reduce the heat to low.
- When the chicken is cooked through, add the broccoli and stir to combine well. Dish out and serve immediately.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Hi Rasa, this one looks awesome! I’ve featured it in my new post today and I hope it’s okay!
Hi Leslie, sure, as long as you link back.
This is a great recipe! I’ve cooked it twice already and it’s delecious. Just one question, if I would like to add another vegetable, what would you suggest to complement this? Thank you :)
Baby carrots.
Brocolli chicken is one of my favorite recipe, especially for my diet.
This recipe was outstanding! I followed it exactly, which I feel you should do when rating. Our family of 6 just loved it. I’ve tried other chicken/broccoli recipes, but this was by far the best. The chicken was incredibly tender. Thank you so much for sharing!
Hi Heather, thanks for your sweet comment. Yes, my recipes are all delicious. You should try more recipes! https://www.666630.xyz/recipe-index-gallery/
Quick, easy, delicious!
Have just made it, and I LOVED it! The sauce is terrific! It’s so good I took sips of it on its own :) I can’t believe such yumminess can be so simple to make. I had to substitute oyster sauce for fish sauce, but hope to try it the original way next time.
Hello, I enjoy your recipes and have tried many of them. I just want to comment that your timings are misleading. You say that prep time is only 5 minutes but you are not including all of the prep. You left out washing and cutting the broccoli as well as cutting up the chicken, removing unwanted fat from the chicken. It would got good if you included more accurate prep times that truly capture the end to end time required.
Conlivia – I buy skinless and boneless chicken breast and they have no fat. I just need to cut into cubes. For broccoli, I usually buy the broccoli florets in a bag and they are ready to be cooked. The prep time is very fast for me, but I am an experienced Chinese cook. I understand that for someone who has never tried the recipe before, it might take longer.
This dish is a bit bland. Also, the thickened sauce turned watery when I added the blanched/drained broccoli florets. Due to dietary concerns I use less sodium soy sauce but also added a teaspoon of molasses to give the sauce a darker color.
On the plus side the chicken was very tender and the dish was not swimming in an MSG-laden syrup sauce like you get from the restaurants.
I’ll try this again but with some modifications: Increase the cooking oil (peanut) from 2 TBS to 3, cook the chicken first (to give it a good searing in the hot oil) and then lower the heat a bit and add the garlic second. I’ll reduce the amount of water in the sauce from a 1/2 to 1/3 of a cup.
John
This was an easy kid-friendly dinner. I couldn’t find my oyster sauce and used hoisin sauce as a replacement –which also is more to my 8 yr. old’s tastebuds and gave it a subtle 5 spice flavor. Thanks for the great recipe. I know we’ll make this again soon.
Could I work without the Oyster Sauce?
Yes you can use soy sauce but it’s not going to be as flavorful.