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Sticky Chicken With Vegetable Fried Rice

Sticky Chicken With Vegetable Fried Rice

A delightful dish combining sticky chicken thighs and vibrant vegetable fried rice, perfect for a comforting meal.
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Resting Time 10 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Course main dish
Cuisine Asian
Servings 4 servings
Calories 421 kcal

Equipment

  • Wok
  • Medium saucepan
  • Knife
  • Cutting Board

Ingredients
  

Chicken & Marinade

  • 250 g chicken thigh fillets sliced into 1cm/1/3" slices
  • 2 tablespoon soy sauce
  • 2 tablespoon tomato sauce
  • 1 tablespoon rice vinegar
  • 1.5 tablespoon honey or substitute with 1 tablespoon brown sugar
  • 0.5 teaspoon fresh ginger minced or finely chopped
  • 1 clove garlic minced
  • 1 tablespoon sriracha or other hot sauce (optional)

Rice

  • 1 cup long grain rice uncooked
  • 1.5 cups water

Fried Rice

  • 1.5 cups cooked rice
  • 0.5 brown or white onion diced
  • 1 clove garlic peeled and smashed
  • 1 carrot diced
  • 0.5 cup frozen peas thawed
  • 0.5 cup baby corn cut into 1cm/1/3" slices
  • 3 bok choys
  • 1.5 tablespoon peanut oil separated
  • 1 tablespoon Chinese cooking wine (shao hsing wine) or dry sherry
  • 1 tablespoon soy sauce
  • 1 teaspoon chicken stock powder or crumbled bouillon cube, or ½ teaspoon salt

Garnish

  • 1 shallot/scallion finely sliced
  • 1 teaspoon sesame seeds optional

Instructions
 

Make Ahead Preparation

  • Combine Chicken and Marinade ingredients in a bowl and mix to coat. Either set aside for 20 minutes or put it in a ziplock bag and place in the freezer until required.
  • Place rice and water in a medium saucepan. Bring to boil, then turn down heat to low and simmer until all the water is absorbed (8 to 10 minutes). Remove from heat and allow to rest for 10 minutes. Remove lid and allow to cool. Divide into two freezer bags - about 1 ½ cups per bag. You will only use one bag for the meal. Then place in ziplock bag or container and put it in the freezer.
  • If you want to go the extra step, you could also cut and measure out the carrots, peas and corn and put them in a freezer bag too.

To Cook

  • Remove chicken and rice from the freezer and allow to defrost.
  • Cut the stems off the leaves of the bok choy. Cut the stems vertically into 1cm/1/3" thick sticks.
  • Heat wok or fry pan over high heat. Add sesame seeds and toast for 15 seconds, then remove.
  • Heat 1 tablespoon oil in wok, add garlic and stir fry for 20 seconds to flavour the oil. Remove garlic and discard.
  • Add onion and stir fry for 30 seconds.
  • Add carrot, peas and corn and stir fry for another 30 seconds.
  • Add the bok choy stems, cook for 30 seconds.
  • Add the rice, cooking wine, soy sauce and stock powder and stir fry for another 30 seconds.
  • Remove wok from heat, then add the bok choy leaves and stir quickly to mix them into the rice. Remove fried rice from wok into large bowl.
  • Add ½ tablespoon oil to wok and return to stove, still on high heat.

Chicken

  • Remove chicken from marinade (reserve marinade) and place in the wok and stir fry for 1 ½ minutes until nicely browned but not quite cooked through. Then add the remaining marinade into the wok with 2 tablespoon water and allow to cook for 30 seconds until it becomes thick and syrupy. Remove from heat.
  • Place fried rice into bowls and top with the sticky chicken. Scatter with shallots/scallions and sesame seeds.

Notes

The best rice to use for fried rice is long grain rice because it is less sticky than short grain rice. If you don't have long grain rice, suitable substitutes (in order of preference) are: brown rice, medium grain rice, jasmine and basmati. Short grain rice is a last resort - it is too sticky to make good fried rice.

Nutrition

Serving: 353gCalories: 421kcalCarbohydrates: 59gProtein: 23.5gFat: 10.2gSaturated Fat: 2.1gCholesterol: 72mgSodium: 947mgPotassium: 295mgFiber: 3.9gSugar: 11gVitamin A: 3650IUVitamin C: 11.6mgCalcium: 40mgIron: 4.5mg
Keyword chicken recipe, Family Dinner, fried rice, make ahead meal, sticky chicken, vegetable stir fry
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