Chicken Stir Fry With Roasted Corn And Beans Recipes

CHICKEN STIR-FRY

Steps:

• Bring rice and water to a boil in a saucepan over high heat. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer until rice is tender, and liquid has been absorbed, 20 to 25 minutes.
• Combine soy sauce, brown sugar, and corn starch in a small bowl; stir until smooth. Mix ginger, garlic, and red pepper into sauce; coat chicken with marinade and refrigerate for at least 15 minutes.
• Heat 1 tablespoon sesame oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir bell pepper, water chestnuts, broccoli, carrots, and onion until just tender, about 5 minutes. Remove vegetables from skillet and keep warm.
• Remove chicken from marinade, reserving liquid. Heat 1 tablespoon sesame oil in skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir chicken until slightly pink on the inside, about 2 minutes per side; return vegetables and reserved marinade to skillet. Bring to a boil; cook and stir until chicken is no longer pink in the middle and vegetables are tender, 5 to 7 minutes. Serve over rice.

CHICKEN STIR FRY WITH ROASTED CORN AND BEANS

Steps:

• Corn -- Bring the oven to 450 degrees. I shuck the corn and then just drizzle with olive oil and wrap with foil so no clean up. Set in the oven for 20-25 minutes. I rotate the corn every 5 minutes or so to get evenly roasted. Remove and take off the foil and then just let cool before you cut the corn off.
• Now if you are using frozen corn, skip this step. I just happen to like the flavor but it can easily be made without it.
• Chicken -- Sprinkle a little of the seasoning over the chicken (just a little, 1 teaspoon). Just let set a few minutes as you prepare the corn.
• Cutting the Corn -- Now, some chefs use a bunt pan and set the corn on the top center so as the corn cuts it doesn't go all over. Whatever works best for you. Cut the corn off the cob and set to the side.
• Saute -- Next heat up a saute pan and add the olive oil and bring to medium high heat. Add the chicken and onion and saute until the chicken is golden brown, about 5 minutes. Then add in the remaining taco seasoning, water, corn, red peppers, black beans, and green chilies. Cook on medium until the sauce thicken and everything is well combined.
• Tortillas -- I just use my grill pan, but you can also just bake them in the oven or you can just serve them without baking them. However you enjoy them. I like to brush mine with olive oil and then lightly grill to warm them up.
• Serve with a tortilla or two on the side, some sour cream as a garnish and a nice side salad.

CHICKEN WITH BLACK BEANS AND CORN

Steps:

• Put all ingredients in crock pot.
• Cook on low for 6-8 hours until chicken easily shreds.
• Mix together.
• Serve with salsa verde, shredded cheese, avocado, various mexican food toppings.
• Use Rotel diced tomatos for a bit more spice.
• Use reduced sodium black beans or fresh black beans to reduce sodium content.

EASY CHICKEN AND GREEN BEAN STIR-FRY

Steps:

• If starting with frozen chicken breasts, set in bowl of cold water to defrost.
• Take end off green beans and wash.
• Rinse rice in several changes of water until water is mostly clear. Add fresh water for cooking and set aside.
• Dice chicken into bite-sized pieces (approx 1/2-inch cubes). Place diced chicken in bowl.
• Add marinade ingredients to chicken - soy sauce, sherry, garlic (chopped or pressed through garlic press). Stir well to distribute marinade.
• Refrigerate chicken.
• Start rice to cook before starting stir fry.
• Prepare stir fry sauce. Add brown sugar, vinegar, soy sauce, sherry and garlic (again chopped or pressed through garlic press) in small bowl. You can also add fresh ginger if you have it.
• Add cornstarch and stir well, pressing out any lumps until sauce has a consistent milky brown color.
• Heat two tablespoons of oil in an large skillet over medium-high heat.
• Add green beans. If green beans don't fit in one batch, cook half at a time. Use long tongs to turn beans over while cooking so that they do not burn.
• If beans are particularly thick, add two tablespoons of water to pan and cover skillet for a couple of minutes to steam-cook beans to desired tenderness. Do not overcook, as beans will go back in the pan briefly later.
• Remove beans from pan.
• Add two more tablespoons of oil to pan. Add chicken and stir to separate pieces.
• When chicken is cooked (turns from pink to white), add prepared stir fry sauce and stir. Sauce will quickly turn from milky light brown to glossy dark brown as it cooks.
• Add string beans and stir to combine. Add dash of sesame oil if desired.
• Remove chicken and string beans to serving dish.
• Serve over rice.