Hi everyone, welcome to cook. Today we are making green beans and chicken stir-fry. This is a delicious dish that you can easily make at home. I will show you step by step how you can create a dish in your own kitchen.

Why You’ll Love This

This is a delicious dish that you can easily make at home, much like a quick and easy veggie noodle stir-fry.

It’s definitely better than takeout and so much healthier, much like our easy homemade hamburger helper recipe.

Green beans cooked this way will come out crisp and tender and the color will look nice and green.

The green bean still looks green and it’s crisp and tender.

The chicken is juicy and delicious.

Ingredients

• four slices of ginger
• five cloves of garlic
• about half of an onion
• green bean
• chicken breast or chicken thigh

For the chicken marinade

• soy sauce
• oyster sauce
• white pepper powder
• a little bit of sugar
• tiny bit of baking soda
• some corn starch
• water
• a touch of oil

For the cornstarch and water mixture

• some cornstarch
• cold water

For cooking

• some oil
• a little bit of salt
• sugar
• a little more oil
• a touch of rice wine
• regular soy sauce
• dark soy sauce
• a little bit of water

Instructions

1. We will start by preparing four slices of ginger and five cloves of garlic.
2. We will keep one of the garlic whole and finally means the other four.
3. We will also need about half of an onion and cut them into bite-sized pieces like this.
4. Chop off and discard both ends.
5. And then cut the green beans into three inch sections.
6. Cut the chicken into slices and then marinate them with soy sauce, oyster sauce, white pepper powder, a little bit of sugar, tiny bit of baking soda, some corn starch and water. This method ensures juicy results, similar to preparing easy crispy air fryer fried chicken.
7. Mix the chicken and marinate thoroughly and then mix in a touch of oil.
8. Prepare some cornstarch and add some cold water to it.
9. Then mix it up until there is no more clumps in the mixture.
10. Now we are ready to cook, add some oil to a hot pan over medium heat.
11. Then add the ginger slices and the whole garlic to the oil.
12. Let the ginger and the garlic sizzle in the oil briefly to release their flavor.
13. Then add a little bit of salt and sugar to the oil and immediately add the green beans.
14. Now stir fry the green beans until you start to see wrinkles on them. This quick sautéing technique is perfect for making speedy side dishes, or even main courses like quick weeknight garlic butter steak bites.
15. When you see wrinkles on the outer layer of the green bean like this, we can remove them from the pan.
16. Now turn the heat up to medium high and we will briefly stir fry the onion.
17. Next, we will stir fry the chicken.
18. Add a little more oil if needed.
19. And add the chicken to the pan.
20. Spread the chicken now and then add the minced garlic.
21. Now stir fry the chicken until they are about 50% cooked.
22. Then add a touch of rice wine.
23. Continue to stir fry and once the rice wine has evaporate.
24. Add some oyster sauce, regular soy sauce and dark soy sauce.
25. Keep stir frying until the color of the chicken looks even.
26. Then add a little bit of water to the pan.
27. Now we can add a cornstarch and water mixture.
28. Mix it up with the sauce and keep stirring the chicken as the sauce thickens.
29. When all the chicken in the pan are coated with the sauce, we can add a green bean and onion back to the pan.
30. Now give me a few quick taste to mix everything together and we are done.

Cooking Tips

This takes about five minutes.

Make sure you keep the heat on medium the whole time.

restaurants usually deep fry the green beans instead of stir frying them to save time.

Our goal here is to get rid of the raw taste of the onion. So this step only takes about 10 seconds.

I hope you will give this recipe a try. For another healthy and fast option, consider our easy healthy air-fried salmon recipe.