Hi, guys! I'm Laura Vitale and on this episode of Laura in the Kitchen, I want to share with
you one of my husbands go-to favorites that I make for him. It's what I call my chicken
and mixed vegetable stir fry. It's really easy, really simple and we just love it around
here. It just takes a handful of ingredients, which I always happen to have on hand, so
it's great for a weeknight - really quickly put together. Serve it along with some rice
and you are in business! You're going to start off with some chicken. I've got some chicken
breast that I have thinly sliced. You want to make sure it's nice and thin. I've got
an array of mixed vegetables. I've got broccoli today, some bell peppers, carrots, mushrooms,
and snap peas. I've got some oyster sauce, some soy sauce, water, vegetable oil, garlic
and ginger. Now, I've got some vegetable oil in this pan. I don't have a wok, so this is
as good as it's going to get. I just have a really big pan for heating over the highest
heat that I could get it at and I'm going to add my chicken and I'm going to get this
in one single layer - or i'm going to attempt to, anyway. I'm going to cook the chicken
until it's pretty much fully cooked. In the meantime, I have got my water in here. I'm
going to add in my soy and my oyster sauce and this is going to make - you know, kind
of like a stir fry sauce. It's really easy! This is kind of like our favorite version
of this and I'm just going to whisk that together really quickly. Let's set that aside. In the
meantime, I am just going to chop up a bunch of garlic. My husband likes it pretty garlicky,
so I go with a few big fat cloves and I'm going to chop these nice and fine and then
we'll move on to the next step. My chicken is pretty much all cooked through. I moved
my skillet to the back burner because my back burner is hotter - it gets hotter. So, I want
to cook this over the highest possible heat as I can because I want to develop color.
Okay, let's add a little bit of a small drizzle of olive oil - maybe about a tablespoon. I'm
going to add in my veggies and I'm only going to cook these for about, I would say, two
minutes. Because, the thing about stir fry that I love - and that my husband really loves,
is that everything is really crispy. Like, it retains texture really well. There's no
soggy vegetables. So, all you're doing is really kind of stir frying up the veggies
for just a couple of minutes just to get rid of that sharp, raw bite and now that you have
that - let's see. I've got ginger here. I buy my ginger granulated in these little jars
because it makes my life easier and because I never can get through an entire piece of
ginger and when I put it in the freezer, it gets really soft when I try to grate it, it
doesn't work as well for me. So, there's a quick little tip there. These are looking
great. Give me one more minute and then we'll be ready to introduce them to their sauce.
I'm going to add my chicken back in along with the garlic, lots of garlic! Then, the
ginger. This is grated ginger, so I'm not going to put as much as I would put freshly
chopped ginger. I'm going to get that all mixed up in there and let that cook for about
30 seconds. Get that sauce in there. Ah, the smell is amazing! I can actually see the smile
on Joe's face behind the camera because this is one of his favorites. I'm going to let
this cook in the sauce for a couple of minutes. In the meantime, I'm going to chop up some
fresh scallions to put on top and we're done! Perfect, smells amazing! I'm going to add
in my scallions. I love fresh scallions and Joe does too. It kind of gives you just a
fresh note to this. You can see that the veggies are still crisp. You can see that pepper is
still nice and crisp. The broccoli are still bright green. The sauce is nice and thick.
I'm going to give this a go. I want to go for - let's go for just a piece of chicken
and a mushroom. I'm going right in the pan because it's my husband and I for dinner and
that's it - and leftovers tomorrow are going to be great for lunch! Hot, but so good. That
sauce is a money maker! It's awesome. I absolutely love this. I hope that you guys give this
one a try. It's really great to kind of make your own take-out, especially if you live
in the middle of nowhere like we do and it's kind of difficult to find really great takeout
places. Play around with your favorite take away foods. Make them at home, make them yourself,
because I guarantee you this tastes like a takeaway chicken and mixed vegetable, but
I feel like it's a much better alternative. You know exactly what goes in there. You've
got fresh vegetables. You've got lean chicken, and I mean, it's that simple and it's that
easy. I hope you've enjoyed spending time with me. LauraintheKitchen.com will have you
covered with the recipe. Leave any requests you have for future recipes down below, and
as always, I will see you next time. Bye!