Stir Fry Scallion Chicken (20 Minutes!)
Back with another EASY and DELICIOUS recipe that will be your go-to recipe for quick lunch boxes or last minute dinners: Stir Fry Scallion Chicken. These chicken bites are flavorful, easy to eat, and goes perfectly with a big bowl of rice. You can make this in 20 minutes with simple, easy-to-find ingredients that make this chicken extra tender. Get your rice ready, and don’t say I didn’t warn you about how addicting my Scallion Chicken is!
Ingredients
- 5 chicken thigh boneless with the skin on
- 4 stalk green onion chopped
- 2.5 tablespoon Soy Sauce
- 3 tablespoon oyster sauce
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1 pinch black pepper
- 1.5 tablespoon cornstarch
- 2 tablespoon Shaoxing Wine optional
Chicken Marinade
Let’s start with the chicken marinade. I used black pepper, oyster sauce, soy sauce, honey, and cornstarch to velvet and marinade the chicken chunks. The cornstarch will help crisp up the chicken and also thicken the sauce.
Chicken Thigh Bites
I prefer to use chicken thighs with the skin on for Scallion Chicken.
Chicken thighs have great flavor and, when deboned, becomes even more tender while also speeding up the cooking time.
It is super easy to debone chicken thighs at home, and it takes an extra 2-3 minutes. Alternatively, you can also get your local butcher shop to prepare it for you.
However, you can also use chicken breast as well. Adjust the cooking time depending on what cut of chicken you are making.
Scallions
The scallion is the star of the dish. You can use spring onion, green onion, or Chinese scallions.
Chop the scallion into thin slices, and separate it with the white and the green. The white part tends to be spicier and tastes delicious when pan-fried with the chicken and oil.
The green part of the scallion cooks super fast, so add it at the end to add a savory and slight sweetness to the chicken.
How To Make Stir Fry Scallion Chicken Bites
- Cut chicken into bite-sized pieces and marinade with soy sauce, oyster sauce, honey, black pepper, and corn starch—massage and set aside for 5 minutes while you prepare the rest of the ingredients.
- Chop green onion and separate it with the whites and the greens.
- In a pan, drizzle in a bit of oil, and turn the heat to medium-high. Add in the chicken thigh and set it for 1 minute before pan-frying for another 4-5 minutes.
- Pour in Shaoxing Wine, beer, or water, and put the lid on to cook for 2 minutes.
- Add in the rest of the green onion, turn the heat to high, and saute on high heat for another 1-2 minutes.
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Stir Fry Scallion Chicken (20 Minutes!)
By Tiffy Cooks
Ingredients
- 5 chicken thigh boneless with the skin on
- 4 stalk green onion chopped
- 2.5 tablespoon Soy Sauce
- 3 tablespoon oyster sauce
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1 pinch black pepper
- 1.5 tablespoon cornstarch
- 2 tablespoon Shaoxing Wine optional
Instructions
- Cut chicken into bite-sized pieces and marinade with soy sauce, oyster sauce, honey, black pepper, and corn starch—massage and set aside for 5 minutes while you prepare the rest of the ingredients.
- Chop green onion and separate it with the whites and the greens.
- In a pan, drizzle in a bit of oil, and turn the heat to medium-high. Add in the chicken thigh and set it for 1 minute before pan-frying for another 4-5 minutes.
- Pour in Shaoxing Wine, beer, or water, and put the lid on to cook for 2 minutes.
- Add in the rest of the green onion, turn the heat to high, and saute on high heat for another 1-2 minutes.
Video
@tiffycooks Back with another 20 minute dinner, lets make Scallion Chicken! #chicken #easyrecipes #cooking
♬ original sound – TIFFY COOKS 🥟
Is there anyway you could add a button for us to save your recipes to Pinterest?
I love your recipes!
Discovered you on YouTube shorts. Loving all your recipes and I’m feeling inspired to start my own food blog (I just need a push 😂)! My 10 years old child likes a few recipes of yours we recreated. Keep it up! Sending love from the UK x
When do you add the onion whites?
at the very last step!
According to her YouTube short = On Step 4: add the onion whites when you are pouring in the Shaoxing Wine/or water.
Just found on you tube videos nice recipes!!
Hi there ! I am just curious, what type of oil do you use for this recipe ? Here in South Africa we mainly just use olive oil for everything.
Love all of your recipes !
Olive oil works just fine!
Tiffy
Can you please leave the nutritional information for your recipes. My husband is on a low sodium diet. Love all your recipes. Thank you!
I cannot get Shaoxing Wine where I am. What can I use as a substitute?
You can try dry sherry or sake!
Tiffy
Made this for meal prepping and it was absolutely amazing!! Definitely gonna be making it again!
Great recipe, my family loved it!
This recipe is delicious! Made it a couple of times. Easy to whip up quickly but packs a lot of flavour. Added some broccoli and cauliflower to get some vegetables in. The hubby and I love it!
This was absolutely delicious – a new staple!
Fantastic recipe, convenient, delicious 10/10
This recipe is great! I accidentally added too much water at the end but it worked out because it made extra sauce which went soo well with the rice.
I’ve made this recipe multiple times and I love it!! Delicious simple recipe that anyone can make!
I found this receipt really easy to follow but both my husband and I found it bland. I did not use the wine maybe that was the difference. Somehow I expect with the oyster sauce it would have more taste. Would adding a Chinese spice make it taster?
Just found on you tube videos nice recipes!!
I’ve made this a couple times for my family and they want it to be a rotation schedule, it’s so good. I love how easy it is and that all the ingredients are already in my pantry.