Soy Sauce Chicken Recipe
You can complete the soy sauce chicken recipe by serving it with side dishes such as rice pilaf, noodles or broccoli.
Ingredients
For the Sauce:
- 4 tbsp dark soy or 8 tbsp regular soy sauce
- ½ cup water or chicken broth
- 2 tbsp white vinegar or apple cider vinegar
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- ¼ tsp ginger powder
- 1 tsp chili flakes
- ½ tsp chili powder
- 1 tsp honey or 2 sugar cubes 1 tsp stevia for keto vers
- 1 tbsp starch (dilute it with ⅓ cup of water) ½ tsp xanthan gum for keto vers
- 1 pinch curcumin powder optional
Other Ingredients:
- 1 kg chicken breast
- ½ cup olive/sesame oil
- 1 small onion
- 4 cloves of garlic
- 150 g pepper 3 peppers
- 200 g white mushroom
After Cooking:
- 1 tbsp toasted sesame seeds
- 4 stalks of green onion
Instructions
Preparation:
- Chop the onion into half-moon shapes, and chop the white parts of the garlic and green onion into small pieces.
- Julienne the mushrooms, peppers and chicken.
- Prepare the sauce in advance by mixing soy sauce, water, vinegar, powdered ginger, chili pepper, garlic or garlic powder, turmeric, stevia/sugar/honey.
- Cut the green onions into 2-3 fingers thick and set them aside to use in the final.
- Roast raw sesame seeds in a pan without oil. When it smells and turns golden, put it in a bowl.
Stir Fry:
- Heat olive oil (preferably sesame oil) in the pan. Once it's warm, stir fry the chicken. Set the cooked chicken aside in a bowl.
- Roast the onions, garlic and white parts of the green onions.
- When the onions become transparent, add the peppers. Sauté until it touches the teeth. Add the mushrooms to the pan and sauté quickly.
- Move all the ingredients in the pan to one side and pour soy sauce on the other side.
- In the ketogenic version, you can sprinkle xanthan gum on the sauce at this stage. In the original version, after diluting the starch with water, add the soy sauce little by little and mix.
- When the sauce reaches the desired consistency, put the chicken back into the pan. Do not overcook, the salt in the food will increase as it cooks.
- Turn off the heat, add the green onions to the pan and stir once.
- Don't forget to sprinkle the roasted sesame seeds on top when serving.
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Notes
- This dish is seasoned with soy sauce. Salt is not used at any stage of the meal.
- Since the salt content of soy will increase as it heats up, soy sauce should be cooked carefully after it enters the pan.