Chicken stir fry (#136)

* chicken stir fry

* Montreal

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+title: Chicken Stir Fry
+date: 2020-04-13
+series: recipes
+tags:
+ - instant-pot
+ - pan
+ - rice
+ - garlic
+---
+
+# Chicken Stir Fry
+
+This recipe was made up by my fiancé and I. We just sorta winged it every time
+we made it until we found something that was easy to cook and tasty. We make
+this every week or so.
+
+## Recipe
+
+### Ingredients
+
+- Pack of 4 chicken breasts
+- A fair amount of Montreal seasoning (garlic, onion, salt, oregano)
+- 3 cups basmati rice
+- 3.75 cups water
+- 1/4th bag of frozen stir fry vegetables
+- Avocado/coconut oil
+- Standard frying pan
+- Standard chef's knife
+- Standard 11x14 cutting board
+- Two metal bowls
+- Instant Pot
+- Spatula
+
+### Seasoning
+
+Put the seasoning in one of the bowls and unwrap the plastic around the chicken
+breasts. Take each chicken breast out of the package (you may need to cut them
+free of eachother, use a sharp knife for that) and rub all sides of it around in
+the seasoning. 
+
+Put these into the other metal bowl and when you've done all four, cover with
+plastic wrap and refrigerate for about 5-6 hours.
+
+Doing this helps to have the chicken soak up the flavor of the seasoning so it
+tastes better when you cook it.
+
+### Cooking
+
+Slice two chicken breasts up kinda like
+[this](https://www.seriouseats.com/2014/04/knife-skills-how-to-slice-chicken-breast-for-stir-fries.html)
+and then transfer to the heated pan with oil in it. Cook those and flip them
+every few minutes until you've cooked everything all the way through (random
+sampling by cutting a bit of chicken in half with the spatula and seeing if it's
+overly juicy or not is a good way to tell, or if you have a food thermometer to
+165 degrees fahrenheit or 75 degrees celsius). Put this chicken into a plastic
+container for use in other meals (it goes really good on sandwiches).
+
+Then repeat the slicing and cooking for the last two chicken breasts. However,
+this time put _half_ of the chicken into the plastic container you used before
+(about one chicken breast worth in total, it doesn't have to be exact). At the
+same time as the second round of chicken is cooking, put about 3 cups of rice
+and 3.75 cups of water into the instant pot; then seal it and set it to manual
+for 4 minutes.
+
+Dump frozen vegetables on top of the remainder of the chicken and stir until the
+vegetables are warm.
+
+### Serving
+
+Serve the stir fry hot on a bed of rice.
+
+![image of the food](/static/blog/chicken-stir-fry.jpg)