Chicken For Chinese Takeaway Style Stir Fry Dishes

Make perfectly tender, juicy chicken with this simple chicken for Chinese takeaway style stir fry dishes recipe.

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Chinese takeaway is a tasty treat that is hard to beat, and so of course it’s also fun and delicious to recreate at home. If you’re a fan of Chinese takeaway food, you’ll know that part of the appeal of stir-fried chicken dishes is the velveted and tender texture of the chicken. If you’d like to recreate Chinese takeaway style stir-fry dishes at home, you can make sure your chicken is deliciously soft and tender every time using this recipe.

Ingredients For Chicken For Chinese Takeaway Style Stir Fry Dishes

This recipe uses skinless, boneless chicken breast, with some simple seasoning and marinade ingredients including sea salt, MSG and oil. This mix, along with the cooking process, ensures your sliced chicken will be tender and melt in the mouth, perfect for use in your favourite Chinese takeaway stir fry dishes.

• Chicken Breast
• Sea Salt
• MSG
• Potato Starch
• Vegetable Oil
• Water

How To Make Chicken For Chinese Stir Fry Dishes

As this chicken is intended for us in Chinese takeaway stir fry dishes, it might be a surprise to find that we’re cooking it in a pot of boiling water. But, this process ensures the chicken is sealed instantly and the result is tender chicken pieces that are just perfect in your favourite takeaway style stir fry.

It’s so easy to make this chicken for Chinese takeaway style stir fry dishes. To begin, skinless, boneless chicken is thinly sliced. Next, it’s seasoned and marinated, before being quickly poached to seal and cook. The poached chicken slices are ready to finish to perfection in your favourite stir fry dishes.

This poaching step is so easy, and also works well with vegetables that take a little more cooking such as carrots or broccoli. A brief blanch in boiling water (30-40 seconds) before being strained and set aside ready for stir frying ensures both chicken and vegetables stay tender and stir fry quickly in your favourite recipes.

Step 1: Marinade

Trim any excess fat from 1 skinless, boneless chicken breast and slice thinly. Add to a bowl with Pinch sea salt, Pinch MSG, Pinch white pepper, 1 tablespoon water, 1 teaspoon potato starch and 1 teaspoon sunflower oil. Mix briefly and set aside for 5 minutes.

Step 2: Cook

Bring a pot of water to the boil over medium-high heat. Carefully drop sliced chicken into the water and simmer for 2 minutes. Strain the poached chicken slices and they’re ready to finish in your favourite takeaway style stir fry dishes.

I hope you’ll try this Chinese takeaway style chicken for stir fry dishes. If you do, let me know in the comments how it went!

Chicken For Chinese Stir Fry Dishes Recipe Tips

• Storage: If you prefer not to use the poached chicken slices straight away, set aside to cool completely and store in a food safe container in the fridge for up to 2 days, or in the freezer for up to 1 month.

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Chicken For Chinese Stir Fry Dishes Recipe FAQ

What is chicken for Chinese stir fry dishes?
Chicken for Chinese takeaway style stir fry dishes is a way to precook chicken breast pieces, ready to add to your favourite Chinese restaurant style stir fry dishes. The chicken is lightly seasoned and blanched briefly, ready for stir frying. The result is deliciously soft and tender chicken that you can use for chicken in black bean sauce, chicken in oyster sauce and lots more!

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