This tangy Citrus Chicken Stir Fry is perfect when you need a quick and easy recipe for chicken, that packs a lot of flavor, but is low in calories.
Easy Citrus Chicken Stir Fry
This Citrus Chicken Stir Fry gets a big dose of flavor from the triple punch of orange, lemon and lime in the citrus glaze. While it works fine as an Asian dish, this one is designed for those cooks who do not have a pantry well stocked, for that cuisine. I've skipped a lot of the typical ingredients I would use in an Asian chicken stir fry, in favor of leaving the tangy citrus flavors unmuddled, to play center stage. Perhaps, I should follow the K.I.S.S. (keep it simple stup*d) rule more often, I really enjoyed this simple recipe.
This easy chicken stir fry is shown served over a vegetable wheat bulgur, but rice and steamed vegetables would work just as well. Due to the vibrant flavor of the sauce, I would be hesitant to add much in the way of vegetables right in the glaze, other than perhaps a bit of onion or pepper.
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Citrus Chicken Stir Fry Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 teaspoon oil
- 1 lb of chicken breasts sliced into narrow strips
Sauce
- ½ cup orange juice
- 2 tbs fresh lemon juice
- 2 tbs. fresh lime juice
- ¼ cup low sodium soy sauce
- 2 tbs honey
- 2 teaspoon white vinegar
- 1 teaspoon corn starch
- **optional*** 2 teaspoon Sambal Oelek chili paste or ½ teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
Instructions
- Whisk together the sauce ingredients, and set aside.
- Put oil on non-stick skillet over medium-high heat.
- Once hot stir fry the chicken until outside is cooked, add the sauce.
- Stir over heat for about 2 minutes, until glaze forms.
- Remove from heat and serve.
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Crystal @ Simply Being Mommy says
This dish looks so fresh! This is another one of your recipes that I'm going to have to try soon.
Sheri says
This is another great looking dish!
Traci says
I tried this tonight, but I couldn't get the sauce to turn into a glaze 🙁
Robin Gagnon says
Sorry to hear that Traci.
The corn starch (with a little help from the honey) are the ingredients in this that thicken the sauce. It won't help for this meal, but any time an Asian style sauce isn't thickening up for you, mix a little corn starch into a tiny amount of water and stir in a splash of it, and stir fry until the starch is cooked (minute or two). Mixing it on the side before adding avoids lumps.
Kelsey Apley says
Yum this looks so good. I love a good stir fry, so I will try this out! Thanks for sharing the recipe!