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4.63 from 64 votes
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Oyster Sauce Chicken

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by: Joanna Cismaru
03.31.22

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This Oyster Sauce Chicken delivers restaurant quality chicken right in the comfort of your home. With a few ingredients and 30 minutes of your time, you could be enjoying this delicious chicken in oyster sauce.

Oyster Sauce Chicken on a bed of rice

Delicious Oyster Sauce Chicken

Finally my kitchen is beginning to make some sense and we’re slowly unpacking all the boxes. This makes me happy. I know where things are now, I can cook!

So I cooked. Mind you I started with an easy recipe such as this oyster sauce chicken with peppers and snow peas, but today I will bake. Today, I will make that kitchen mine!

I had a vision. A vision of a nice chicken stir fry kind of dish. We were both getting tired eating out and take out over the past week, so this was such a welcomed meal. A home cooked meal. Even if I had screwed it up, it would have been delicious, which I did not, mind you.

Did I tell you what else I love about this house? Sorry this has nothing to do with this recipe, but I have to share this with you. It’s the air conditioner! When we moved to Calgary everyone was telling us, you don’t need an AC here, if you do it’d only be for 2 weeks of the year. Well it’s more like 2 months, but if it happens you move during those 2 months and you have to unpack, trust me when I say but the AC is a God send.

How To Make Oyster Sauce Chicken

Anyway enough babbling on, back to this dish. This recipe calls for oyster sauce, now if you’ve never cooked with oyster sauce, you can find it in the Asian isle in your grocery store.

Oyster sauce is made from sugar, salt and water thickened with cornstarch and oyster essence for flavoring. You’ll love it! The rest of the ingredients are fairly simple, chicken, peppers, snow peas and onions. It’s an easy meal that you can make any night of the week.

Close up shot of Oyster Sauce Chicken on a bed of rice

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a plate of rice topped with chicken in oyster sauce

Oyster Sauce Chicken

4.63 from 64 votes
Prep: 10 mins
Cook: 20 mins
Total: 30 mins
Author: Joanna Cismaru
Serves: 4
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This Oyster Sauce Chicken delivers restaurant quality chicken right in the comfort of your home. With a few ingredients and 30 minutes of your time, you could be enjoying this delicious chicken in oyster sauce.

Ingredients

  • 3 chicken breasts boneless, skinless, cut into small strips
  • ½ red bell pepper sliced
  • ½ yellow bell pepper sliced
  • 1 cup snow peas a handful, ends trimmed
  • 1 onion sliced
  • 3 tablespoon olive oil
  • 3 tablespoons oyster sauce
  • 2 tablespoon garlic and ginger paste if you don’t have this, fresh garlic and ginger work
  • 2 tablespoon soy sauce
  • 1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • ¼ cup water
  • basil for garnish
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Instructions

  • In a large bowl mix together 2 tbsp of the olive oil, the oyster sauce, garlic and ginger paste, soy sauce, rice wine vinegar and salt and pepper. Take half of the mixture and pour into a smaller bowl. Add the water to the smaller bowl, mix and set aside.
  • Add the chicken pieces to the larger bowl and toss the chicken around so that each piece is coated in the mixture. Let it sit and marinate for about 10 minutes.
  • In a large skillet, heat the remaining 1 tbsp of olive oil. Add chicken pieces to it and cook until the chicken is cooked through and it starts to slowly brown. Remove chicken from skillet and set aside.
  • Add onion to the same skillet and fry, add additional oil if needed to the skillet. Once the onion is translucent, add the peppers and snow peas and the oyster sauce. Stir and cook for a couple minutes, the sauce will begin to thicken. Add the chicken to the skillet and toss everything together.
  • Serve over rice and garnish with basil.

Recipe Notes

  1. Nutritional information does not include rice.

Nutrition Information:

Serving: 1servingCalories: 236kcal (12%)Carbohydrates: 8g (3%)Protein: 20g (40%)Fat: 13g (20%)Saturated Fat: 2g (13%)Polyunsaturated Fat: 2gMonounsaturated Fat: 8gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 54mg (18%)Sodium: 761mg (33%)Potassium: 501mg (14%)Fiber: 2g (8%)Sugar: 3g (3%)Vitamin A: 788IU (16%)Vitamin C: 64mg (78%)Calcium: 31mg (3%)Iron: 1mg (6%)
Course:Dinner, Lunch
Cuisine:Asian
Keyword:chicken in oyster sauce, oyster sauce chicken
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  1. Sandy Murray says

    April 4, 2021 at 10:27 pm

    Is the garlic and ginger paste two separate ingredients. I have ginger paste, garlic is not an ingredient. How much of each do I use if not?

    Reply
    • Joanna Cismaru says

      April 5, 2021 at 3:24 am

      Yep, it’s one ingredient, just use half of each.

      Reply
  2. Colleen says

    November 5, 2020 at 11:41 pm

    Wow! This recipe was SO good and to top it off, so easy to make. I made it with rice noodles. Delish. Definitely will be making this again and again!

    Reply
  3. Elena says

    April 1, 2020 at 5:07 am

    5 stars
    My husband loved it, my dad loved it, I loved it!!! <3

    Reply
  4. R J T says

    July 30, 2018 at 8:22 am

    5 stars
    This sauce has great flavor. All I used was the sauce and subtituted the chicken for flank steak and added my own mix of veggies. I will be using this sauce recipe in my future stir frys.

    Reply
  5. jo says

    July 28, 2018 at 9:04 pm

    if you don’t have a rice wine vinegar is cane vinegar ok for substitute?

    Reply
    • Nicole Beaulieu says

      July 30, 2018 at 9:57 am

      Yes that’ll work just fine.

      Reply
  6. Dusan says

    June 4, 2017 at 1:52 pm

    5 stars
    Awesome recipe, thanks!

    Reply
  7. Ted Smith says

    March 2, 2017 at 2:18 pm

    Hi,
    What am I missing… what happens to the sauce in the small bowl? And is the chicken removed from the sauce before being put in the skillet, or does the sauce go in with the chicken?

    Reply
    • Joanna Cismaru says

      March 2, 2017 at 3:21 pm

      Hi Ted! The sauce in the small bowl goes in the skillet in step 4, I’m referring to it as the oyster sauce. You remove the chicken from the skillet in step 3 only to cook the veggies, then it’s added back in step 4, that’s all. Hope this helps.

      Reply
  8. David says

    February 19, 2015 at 12:25 pm

    5 stars
    Used as a store cupboard dinner as we had most of the ingredients. Very intense flavours, we thoroughly enjoyed it although I don’t think you need the additional salt

    Reply
  9. madscar says

    July 3, 2013 at 8:13 am

    This is amazing! I love it:)

    Reply

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