Chicken Stir Fry: Easy Cooking Tips For A Delicious Meal
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When you need a quick and kid-friendly meal, this 6-Ingredient Chicken Stir Fry is a great option. This recipe uses simple ingredients, including a surprising one – Miracle Whip, and it’s a stir fry using frozen vegetables.
Quick Easy Chicken Stir Fry Recipe
There are countless nights when we get home from a long day at work, and we have no ideas for dinner. We need something fast, yummy, kid-friendly and economical.
This 6-Ingredient Chicken Stir Fry checks all those boxes. The inspiration for this recipe came from our favorite Pot O’Gold cookbook.
Fast– this recipe only cooks for approximately 10 minutes.
Yummy– Miracle Whip gives a surprising, delicious flavor.
Kid-Friendly– kids love chicken and rice. Add whatever frozen vegetables your kids prefer.
Economical– Grab chicken and frozen vegetables when on sale, and use white rice which is very inexpensive.
Stir Fry with Miracle Whip
This easy stir fry recipe has a secret ingredient.
Miracle Whip
Crazy, huh?
Who knew that you could use Miracle Whip as the oil in a stir-fry? It gives the dish a nice flavor and has a high smoke temperature which is perfect for a stir fry.
Both Barbara and I like to keep bags of frozen veggies in the freezer for this type of meal, and we always have rice in the cabinet. With so many varieties of frozen mixed vegetables, you can customize this dish to meet your family’s demands (we mean tastes…no, demands is probably the right word).
There was a point in Barbara’s life when she never made rice because it never turned out. But then she bought a microwave rice cooker, and her life was changed forever. You get fluffy rice every single time. (As for me…I rely on the frozen steamer bagged rice or Uncle Ben’s Ready Rice.)
Chicken Stir Fry using Frozen Vegetables
Check your local grocery store for frozen stir fry vegetables. The best part is that you can cook this stir fry using frozen vegetables—no thawing required.
Here’s some of our favorite stir fry variations using this same base recipe.
- Use brown rice for added nutrition.
- Make a chicken broccoli stir fry by using a bag of regular frozen broccoli florets.
- For a clean meal, use liquid aminos instead of soy sauce.
- Clean out your veggie drawer and chop up whatever you have on hand instead of frozen veggies.
What ingredients are needed for chicken stir fry?
Chicken, cut into thin slices
Miracle Whip
Frozen vegetables, keep frozen (Your favorite blend with carrots, bell peppers, mushrooms, snow peas, water chestnuts, etc.)
Garlic Powder
Soy Sauce, low sodium variety
Your Favorite Type of Cooked Rice
How to Make Chicken Stir Fry with Frozen Vegetables
Step by Step Instructions
- Mix chicken and Miracle Whip until coated.
- Cook over medium high heat for 5 minutes; add vegetables, garlic powder and soy sauce.
- Continue cooking for 5 minutes of until everything is cooked through.
- Serve over cooked rice.
For the full recipe for Easy Chicken Stir Fry, scroll to the bottom of this post.
Recipe FAQs
- This easy stir fry recipe only has 6 ingredients. Check out some more of our favorite recipe with 6 ingredients or less here.
- Miracle Whip serves as the flavor and cooking oil in this chicken stir fry recipe with mixed vegetables.
- Use whatever frozen vegetables you prefer. You might as well use what your family will eat.
- Try swapping out for a different protein like diced pork or shrimp.
- Soy sauce has a lot of sodium. We recommend using the low sodium version. This also means you should not add extra salt until you taste the stir fry first.
- Lighten up this meal by serving if over cooked cauliflower rice instead of traditional rice.
Recipe Variations
- Use coconut aminos instead of soy sauce.
- Any vegetable blend will work. I love baby corn, sugar snap peas, green beans, zucchini, broccoli, etc.
- Serve over cauliflower rice or quinoa instead of rice.
- Chicken breasts or chicken thighs will work.
- For heat, add red pepper flakes.
- For more flavor, add minced garlic or minced ginger.
- Garnish with green onions.
Do I need to thaw frozen vegetables before adding to stir fry?
No, you do not need to thaw frozen vegetables before stir-frying. Instead, add them to the pan still frozen. If you’ve already thawed, no need to re-freeze. The cooking time will be shorter for thawed, frozen vegetables.
Economical Recipes for Families
What can I cook for under $10?
Cooking on a budget isn’t always easy. Here’s our top ten favorite meals for under $10.
- Old Fashioned Salmon Patties
- Pizza Buns
- Chipped Beef Gravy
- Open Faced Tuna Melt
- 3 Ingredient Chicken Salad
- 5 Ingredient Ground Beef Casserole
- Mom’s Hamburger Gravy
- Cheeseburger Turnovers
- Sausage and Pintos
- Lemon Chicken Pasta
6-Ingredient Chicken Stir Fry
Ingredients
- 1 lb. boneless chicken breasts cut into strips
- 3/4 cup Miracle Whip
- 1 12 or 16 oz. pkg. frozen mixed veggies, do not thaw
- 2 Tablespoons soy sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- Cooked Rice
Instructions
- Mix together chicken and miracle whip until coated; add to a skillet that has been pre-heated over medium high heat.
- Cook chicken for 5 minutes; add mixed vegetables, soy sauce and garlic powder.
- Continue cooking for 5 minutes or until chicken and veggies are cooked through.
- Serve over rice.
Notes
- This easy stir fry recipe only has 6 ingredients. Check out some more of our favorite recipe with 6 ingredients or less here.Â
- Miracle Whip serves as the flavor and cooking oil in this chicken stir fry recipe with mixed vegetables.
- Use whatever frozen vegetables you prefer. You might as well use what your family will eat.
- Try swapping out for a different protein like diced pork or shrimp.
- Soy sauce has a lot of sodium, so do not add extra salt until you taste.
