Looking for an easy Ginger Chicken Recipe? How about one that is ready in under 30 minutes? This Sticky Lime and Ginger Chicken is delicious and a kid friendly recipe!
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Serve over Rice and Peas
This Sticky Lime and Ginger Chicken from Donna Hay magazine called for the chicken to be served over gai larn. After Googling and reading about it, I figured out that Gai Larn was Chinese broccoli or Chinese Kale. Since we don’t have a big international grocery store here, and my regular grocery stores aren’t all that adventuresome, I didn’t even attempt to find it. What I thought I would do would be use some edamame instead. I know…nothing like gai larn, but still it fit with the whole Asian feel.
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So, I went looking in my freezer for where I thought I had some edamame. What I found instead was three bags of frozen peas! I don’t even like peas all that much, but there they were. To keep it simple, I cooked the rice in the rice cooker and during the last few minutes of steaming, opened up the lid, poured in the frozen peas, closed the lid and let them steam until crisp tender. This was perfect and may be what I do now from now on when I’m serving a stir fried chicken over rice. It keeps me from having to make a second side dish of veggies. A bag of frozen corn or even mixed vegetables would have worked just as well.
Since I am not calling this a rice cooker recipe, I wrote the instructions to add the peas to the chicken and then serve over rice. However if you have rice cooker, try my instructions above, it's so easy!
Sticky Lime and Ginger Chicken
We absolutely loved this Sticky Lime and Ginger Chicken - it's so crazy easy and so delicious!
Sticky Lime and Ginger Chicken
Ingredients
- ¼ cup honey
- 2 tablespoons oyster sauce
- 1 tablespoon lime juice
- 1 tablespoon fresh ginger peeled and finely grated (I store mine in the freezer – makes grating so easy!)
- 2 cloves garlic crushed
- ¼ cup water
- 2 tablespoons peanut oil
- 8 boneless skinless chicken thighs cut into strips
- 1 lime thinly sliced
- 2 cups peas thawed if frozen
- shredded green onions
- steamed rice to serve
Instructions
- Place the honey, oyster sauce, lime juice, ginger, garlic and water in a bowl and mix to combine. Set aside.
- Heat the oil in a large wok or non-stick skillet over high heat. Add the chicken and cook in batches for 6 minutes or until cooked through. Add the honey mixture and lime and bring to a boil. Cook for 2-4 minutes or until thickened slightly. Add the peas, cook until they are warmed through.
- Arrange the chicken on a platter and top with the green onions. Spoon over the pan sauce and serve with rice.
Nutrition
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Ramona says
My absolute favourite ingredients. This is a treat. I really fancy it now and might even get to make it as I’ve got all ingredients. It looks soooo appetising 😋👌
Amanda Wren-Grimwood says
Pam I'm a bit like you in that finding ingredients for Asian dishes is challenging and I love what you have done to make this dish a real family meal. Ginger and lime works so well - it looks delicious!
Laura says
This lime and ginger chicken sounds delicious and rice with peas looks like a good side dish for it. I need to try it
Kate | Veggie Desserts says
Sticky lime and ginger? That sounds like flavour-packed amazingness!
Couscous & Consciousness says
Pam that chicken sounds amazing - actually had me at "sticky"!!
And I love the way you improvised in the absence of the gai larn, and came up with something that worked well for you - great choice.
kitchen flavours says
This is a lovely chicken dish! And it looks delicious eaten with rice. The peas seems like a perfect combination!
Deb in Hawaii says
I thought I had edamame in my freezer and found 2 bags of lima beans. 😉 This dish looks so full of flavor and I like the peas too.
grace says
i like edamame, but i LOVE peas. i think they're a fine component in this!
Zosia says
That stir fry sauce sounds delicious - lime and ginger is such a great combination.
~~louise~~ says
The chicken is the star in this dish, Pam and it not only sounds yummy it looks delicious too!!! I'm not crazy about edamame anyway but I do love peas! Thanks for sharing, Pam...
Kim says
gai larn/peas rice/noodles....what's the difference? Ha ha! It's all good! This dish looks fantastic, Pam. Joanne is right. The stir fry sauce sounds amazing and the chicken looks perfectly saucy and delicious. This is my kind of meal.
Amy @Very Culinary says
Oh see, *I* love peas! Winner winner, chicken dinner. I'm totally making this!
Marjie says
I love the convenience of frozen veggies. I'm thinking of a stir-fried chicken thing tonight. This is a good candidate!
Pam says
I bet the peas worked just fine instead of edamame. This meal would be a big hit in my house.
Joanne says
I want to try that stir fry sauce! Lime and ginger were meant to be.