# Chicken, stir-fry veg.  Suggestions?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 15, 2011, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-stir-fry-veg-suggestions/592732 "2011-08-15T00:15:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2011, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-stir-fry-veg-suggestions/592732/1 "2011-08-15T00:15:32Z")

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I thought I’d cook chicken and stir-fry veg tonight. I’m out of garlic. The only onions (if any) are in the bag of frozen plants. I’m not going to the store. Here’s the plan right now: Fry the chicken in sesame oil. Add frozen stir-fry vegetables, a bit of salt, some soy sauce, and some red pepper flakes. Eat it with rice.

Without my posting an inventory of what’s in the fridge, does anyone have any suggestions?

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**Author:** ![Ibanez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a4c791/32.png) [@Ibanez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibanez)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2011, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-stir-fry-veg-suggestions/592732/2 "2011-08-15T01:14:27Z")

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Do you have any chicken or vegetable broth ? Or cubes ?

You can make a thick sauce out of that. Fry up the chicken until no longer pink, take it out fry up your onions for a little bit. Add everything else with the broth and simmer for 20 minutes the last 5 minutes add some flour to thicken it up.

I usually add any related spices, sauces, jerk sauce, hot sauce i.e. that I like to it.

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**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2011, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-stir-fry-veg-suggestions/592732/3 "2011-08-15T01:16:53Z")

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Add some oyster sauce! That’ll make it taste slightly more authentic.

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2011, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-stir-fry-veg-suggestions/592732/4 "2011-08-15T01:23:37Z")

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No onions, unless they’re in the frozen mix. No oyster sauce, dammit. I think I have broth, though, and corn starch for thickening.

Time to start cooking!

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2011, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-stir-fry-veg-suggestions/592732/5 "2011-08-15T02:07:22Z")

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Well, that turned out adequately tasty. I stuck to the original plan, though I did the kosher salt and pepper with the chicken instead of later, and used **Ibanez** ’s suggestion of adding chicken broth. (I used corn starch as a thickener.) Could’ve used a little… something. Maybe more soy sauce, or indeed oyster sauce. But I’m getting no complaints.