Easy Black Pepper Chicken Stir Fry Recipe
If you’ve never tried black pepper chicken at your local Chinese restaurant, you’ve been missing out. But now, you can recreate it at home using my easy better-than-takeout black pepper chicken recipe! The chicken is tender, juicy, and is cooked in your skillet before removing it and working on the onions and bell peppers. This ensures the chicken sears and cooks properly, without being overcooked, and that the bell peppers are crisp-tender. The black sauce that coats every inch of the chicken and veggies is made with soy sauce, oyster sauce, garlic, ginger, honey, salt, and of course black pepper. It thickens just a bit thanks to a bit of cornstarch. This one skillet recipe comes together in less than 30 minutes total time, and only about half that time is actually cooking – faster than Chinese takeout! Stir frys move quickly, which is how I like to do my weeknight dinner cooking! I don’t have time or energy for complicated recipes during the week. Plus just one skillet ensures that cleanup is quick and easy, too.
Ingredients in Garlic Black Pepper Chicken
High in protein, fairly low in carbohydrates, and likely lower in saturated fat than the Panda Express version of this recipe, here are the ingredients you’ll need: Chicken and Veggies
Oil – vegetable oil or another neutral oil Boneless skinless chicken breast – boneless chicken thighs may be swapped Kosher salt Freshly ground black pepper Bell peppers – red bell peppers and green bell peppers tend to be the traditional choices, but you can use any color Onion – white onion or yellow Garlic Ginger – fresh is ideal but dried or ground ginger is fine
Sauce
Chicken broth – I use reduced sodium Lite soy sauce Oyster sauce Honey Cornstarch Freshly ground black pepper Chili powder Green onions, for garnishing Sesame seeds, for garnishing
Note: Scroll down to the recipe card section of the post for the ingredients with amounts included and for more complete directions.
How To Make Black Pepper Chicken Stir Fry
Make sure to get everything chopped and prepped before you begin. Approximately 10 minutes of prep time is a worthwhile investment since the recipe will move quickly. More times than not, I serve this easy stir fried black pepper chicken and veggies over a bed of rice. The extra sauce sauce is mopped up perfectly by your favorite rice including white rice, jasmine rice, basmati, brown rice, or any of the other rice recipe I have, shown above.
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