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Glossy chicken and mushroom stir fry with whole garlic cloves and chopped green onions in a pan

Chicken and Mushroom Stir Fry

Chicken breast cubes marinated in cooking wine, soy sauces, oyster sauce, pepper and starch, stir-fried with whole garlic cloves and white mushrooms.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Servings: 1 pan
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients Method Video Notes

Ingredients
  

  • chicken breast cut into bite-size cubes
  • white button mushrooms halved or quartered
  • garlic cloves peeled, left whole
  • cooking oil for the pan
  • green onions chopped, to finish
Marinade
  • cooking wine Shaoxing wine
  • light soy sauce
  • oyster sauce
  • dark soy sauce
  • pepper powder
  • starch cornstarch or potato starch

Method
 

  1. Cut the mushrooms into halves or quarters, so they are about the same size as the chicken.
  2. Cut the chicken breast into bite-size cubes.
  3. Put the chicken in a bowl and add cooking wine, light soy sauce, oyster sauce, dark soy sauce, pepper powder and starch.
  4. Mix it with your hands until every piece is coated and the marinade turns sticky.
  5. Heat oil in a pan and fry the whole garlic cloves until they turn golden brown.
  6. Add the chicken and stir-fry until it changes colour all over.
  7. Add the mushrooms.
  8. Keep stir-frying until the mushrooms let go of their water and it cooks away, and the sauce coats everything.
  9. Sprinkle with chopped green onions, toss once and serve hot.

Video

Notes

Our video shows every ingredient but doesn't measure any of them, so there are no amounts here. Season to taste and go easy on the soy and oyster sauces at first; they are salty.
The video doesn't give times either. The 10 minutes prep and 10 minutes cooking are our estimate.