Chicken and Broccoli Stir Fry
The easiest stir-fry you will ever make! With the juiciest, tender chicken bites and sneaked in veggies!
Hello easiest-dinner-ever. It’s such a quick, speedy stir-fry using of course, chicken thighs (my favorite!), yielding the juiciest, most tender chicken bites ever. But don’t worry, you can swap them out for chicken breasts if dark meat is not your thing.
I also added some broccoli for those sneaky greens, soaking up all that saucy goodness. But you can use any veggies you have on hand – carrots, zucchini, cauliflower, snap peas, baby corn, you name it! They are all good here.
Chicken and Broccoli Stir Fry
The easiest stir-fry you will ever make! With the juiciest, tender chicken bites and sneaked in veggies!
Ingredients
- ½ cup chicken stock
- ¼ cup oyster sauce
- 1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon freshly grated ginger
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon Sriracha, optional
- 1 pound boneless, skinless chicken thighs, cut into bite-size pieces
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1 tablespoon canola oil
- 1 tablespoon sesame oil
- 3 cups broccoli florets
- ½ teaspoon toasted sesame seeds
Instructions
- FOR THE CHICKEN STOCK MIXTURE: In a small bowl, whisk together chicken stock, oyster sauce, vinegar, ginger, garlic and Sriracha, if using; set aside.
- Season chicken with 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper.
- In a medium bowl, combine chicken and cornstarch.
- Heat canola oil and sesame oil in a large skillet over medium high heat.
- Working in batches, add chicken to the skillet in a single layer and cook until golden brown, about 7-8 minutes. Stir in broccoli and CHICKEN STOCK MIXTURE until broccoli is just tender, about 3-4 minutes.
- Serve immediately, garnished with sesame seeds.
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Easy and delicious and my daughter loves it!
This is one of my go-to weekly recipes for my family ever since I discovered this recipe! The sauce is heavenly! The oyster sauce has a lot of sodium so I omitted the salt on the chicken but even then I love it all. Thank you for sharing this delicious gem!
This was okay. I don’t know if it was user error, but this was too salty for us. If I do this one again, I would add more veggies and less salt.
Really delicious and easy to pull together! This recipe is definitely a keeper!
A perfect taste to my pallet. Healthy. Inexpensive.
I have been trying different sauces and never can find just the right one…..until now.
I have to say, best sauce I have ever tasted.
Thank you so much!!
I had a bag of mixed fresh veggies and some peppers, so I doctored this up a tad. I also added a few cashews…just because.
The sauce is wonderful. I had been in a rut with soy sauce, and the oyster sauce gave much deeper flavor. Even with low salt soy, I get cotton mouth–which didn’t happen with this recipe.
I also like the trick of putting the cornstarch directly on the chicken. It gave a lovely texture and the meat didn’t get lost in a gloppy gravy.
I adore this website and always come away with ideas and inspiration. Thank you and keep up the great work!
I love all of your recipes!!!
One quick question. When I see sesame oil in a recipe , should I always assume untoasted? Is toasted sesame seed oil on when specified? Thanks. This has plagued me for awhile.
This is the most amazing recipe! The flavors are perfectly balanced, it is super easy, and most importantly, every member of my family loves it! I add flat pea pods to it along with the broccoli. So delicious – thank you for this recipe!
I needed a new recipe and you saved the day! This recipe is wonderful. I added red bell pepper and onion and used cauliflower rice to up our veggies. Thank you!
I am going to try this recipe for dinner!
Absolutely delicious for the ease of preparation. I think this will be my go to sauce for stir fries for years to come. Huge fan.
Easy. Delicious. Quick! Doubled the recipe.
5 ⭐️
Wow! delicious
It’s a keeper, made the sauce in double, next time I’ll add
Very good and loved how light it was. Added carrots for color. My chicken did not look as brown as shown in the picture, though I did use chicken breasts instead of thighs. Either way, a keeper for sure.
I did exactly as the recipe required but tweaked to taste, added more veggies over rice…..Damn good!!! received kudos from the wife!! Definitely will make repeatedly due to the ease of making it. Thanks guys!!
This recipe is so freaking good. I don’t know why I’m amazed every time I try a recipe from this site, because they are all great. Prep everything 1st, definitely use fresh garlic and ginger. We had cauliflower rice with our meal. This will be a weekly meal. Thanks for a great recipe.
Yep, this is amazing! I made it with quinoa and it turned out so well. To those who have had problems with the chicken sticking, I’d recommend making sure the oil is quite hot before you put in the chicken, and then don’t touch the chicken until it gets brown on the bottom.
Delicious as usual. Never had a bad recipe they’re easy to make and fresh ingredients are great.
I have been trying to make my own chicken/beef and broccoli dish for a while now. At the 11th hour discovered your recipe and it was a home run. Everyone including my 5 year old enjoyed this dish. I followed as written and it turned out perfect. I may add more sauce next time b/c we are sauce people also, but great great recipe. This will definitely be in our rotation.
I doubled the sauce recipe because my family LOVES sauce. Otherwise, I followed the recipe exactly. It was really delicious.
Sooooo much better than take out!!! Love that I can keep the veggies crisp and the sauce (out of habit and person taste, I boosted the ginger/garlic/hot sauce) is way fresher than take out too. I will absolutely make this again. Thank you!
Followed recipe and was pleasantly surprised. It’s a keeper.
Planning some modifications but this is a solid recipe.
I love this dish! I doubled the sauce and then doubled again, once sauce is warm, then thicken the sauce with 4TBSP of water and 4 TBSP of cornstarch let it come to a boil stirring then turn down to low then put uncooked broccoli right into the sauce cooked at simmer for about 10 min. Added the chicken let it cook on low, add linguine last, kept warm untill we we were ready to eat.
I do not have Oyster Sauce on hand and was craving this right now so used low sodium soy sauce. I added double the Sriracha because I wasnt paying attention so then added a small amount of Splenda brown sugar mix to lessen the burn. Other than that I followed the recipe exactly minus salt and pepper and this is one of the easiest and best at home chicken and broccoli recipes I have tried and truly taste better than any of the local restaurants. This will be the only recipe I use from now on.
Thank you for sharing. I follows the recipe, only adding onions carrots snd some honey fur sweetness. It was quick, easy and very good. On a hunch I searched to see if you had a beef and broccoli recipe too and was glad to find it. Will be trying that one next. For those who want nutritional info, like I do, you can use an app to put in the ingredients of the recipe and it will calculate it for you. Pretty quick and easy to do. I use “Lose It”, but I’m sure there are others. Good luck!
It’s a hit in my house! This recipe is definitely just like the restaurant makes it. Family approved
this is super tasty. It did take me longer to cook the chicken but will make this again.
Delicious! Made recipe with no changes and all loved it!
OMG!!! I may not be much of a cook, but got dangit this was an easy peasy lemon freezy chicken and broccoli to make!! When I get takeout I can feel the plastics and innaturalitys in the meal? I always feel bloated afterwards. But when I found D@$# Delicious, my problems were solved!! Hubs said go for it! honey but the gremlins (my 2 kids: Charlie and Atticus)told me to “beat it ma”… But I preserved for my lovely hubbsy wubbsy gubbsy!!!! :] When I finally finished this 3 hours later… they all had 7 healthy helpings! We had a side of ghee on rye. With apple cider vinegar. Kids said “wow ma, finally made something good for once you old hag”, and I laughed with joy.
-Dr Roz Starr, (P.D L.A) With love from the Starr fam! 3>
I added soy sauce.
Easy peasy recipe and wonderful flavors, will make this more often.
This is the best stir fry I have ever made. Hands down. We also made the sesame chicken bowl recipe but prefer this one. We double the sauce and add extra veggies. Sugar snap peas and carrots are great additions. Very easy to make even for more people. Just make more sauce. We make it at least once a week! You can use boneless skinless breasts too but I prefer the thighs. Leftovers taste fabulous and just like Chinese takeout but without the greasiness.
Loved it. Added onions! What is the calorie count? I love that it has no added sugar. I added chili crisp vs. optional siracha. This is a great recipe!
This was delicious! I made it without broccoli and added chopped onion,
carrots, tomato, red and green peppers. The flavors were great and we enjoyed it!
Will be making it again! Thanks for your great meal ideas!
Flavors were good. I added the sesame oil at the end instead.
I loved the flavor but It was really watery. I would definitely make it again but add a cornstarch slurry to thicken the sauce. I also added carrots and zucchini and double the sauce.
Your sauce was watery because you added zucchini. Zucchini releases a lot of moisture. I followed the recipe and everything was perfect.
Excellent recipe
Awesome to the “T” chicken and broccoli recipe. Up here in jersey we love our chinese food, and this guys was on point. I like my CNB really really saucy , so all I did was double the liquids, but not the ginger and garlic. You must add 1/4 cup brown sugar and this takes the dish to outer space !! Trust me it’s fire!
Very good, I followed the recipe very closely, upon taste I added a little fresh teriyaki sauce to add some sweetness.
Love it. The move veggies I add, the more to double the sauce, and the more servings we get. Love it
Really easy and was super super yummy. I used chicken breasts and jasmine rice and will now keep in my recipe box. I love every recipe from this site. Thanks so much
Is fish sauce a good sub for oyster sauce for someone who can’t eat it (it’s not kosher). If not, what do you suggest? Thanks.
Yes, you can use fish sauce or soy sauce diluted (I added a little honey to my soy sauce to add sweetness, since oyster sauce is sweet.
Anna, Kikkoman makes an OU certified Vegetarian (pareve) Oyster Sauce. You can shop their website directly as its hard to find in stores. Game changer!
Made as written. It is perfectly spiced! Into our fave folder it goes.
Superb yet easy recipe. In addition, delicious.
Can I make this with beef instead of chicken and if so…please send recipe. Thanks.
The recipe would be the same. Anywhere you see “chicken”, insert beef instead.
First time making this recipe and I’m impressed. This will not be the last time. Very good.
Can you use fish sauce instead?
Sounds yummy. When do I add the sesame seeds?
At the end of finished cooking. It’s food decoration.
what can i substitute for oyster sauce or can i omit it?
Question – could this be made with ground chicken?
Hello
I so love your recipes, BUT I wish they came with the nutritional information at the end of the recipe, it is always helpful to know the fat, saturated fat, sodium and sugar content of the recipe.
I have seen some of your recipes do have the information.
Is it something that you would consider doing going forward.
Thankyou for what you do to help us make damn delicious meals 🙂
The meal itself tasted great once we finally got it cooked. However, we had major issues with the chicken sticking to the wok. It completely caked on and the chicken wouldn’t even fully cook. We are experienced with stir frys and have had our wok a long time and never had that happen. I am guessing it had to do with the corn starch on the chicken? I wonder if anyone else had a problem with this? If we make again we will add the cornstarch at the end to thicken the sauce.
Just made this and had the same problem with sticking chicken. Would love more advice. Loved the flavors!