This easy Chicken Stir Fry looks good, doesn’t it?
I’ll let you in on a little secret about this easy dish: I didn’t make it.
My daughter did!
Before I dive into the details on this yummy kid-friendly recipe, I have a little story to tell along with a great program for kids.
You see, my girls have always loved to help in the kitchen, in any way possible. From fetching items, to helping mix and pour, they’ve always been eager to assist. Yet it was only in the last year that my oldest daughter, Isabelle, expressed great interest in having full rein when it comes to cooking and baking. She was given a kids recipe book for Christmas last year, and has since made every recipe from the book, all by herself.
Oftentimes when I’m getting ready to make a meal, Isabelle literally puts herself in front of me, and says ‘I got this‘. I tell ya, parenting is a whole different experience when I get to sit back with a cup of coffee and watch my child cook a meal start to finish, with very few prompts from myself. I have to admit – I really love it. Not only does it give me a break {hey, it’s the truth!}, but in doing so, she is learning such a valuable life skill.
I happily support her desire and determination to cook solo, by introducing her to new easy recipes whenever I can. As well, I’m always on the lookout for fun tutorials and programs that encourage kids to get in the kitchen and cook! in return she eats them up like a good home-cooked meal. Win/Win!
It’s with this that I introduce you to Uncle Ben’s #BensBeginners, a program developed encourage healthier meals and better habits for kids. The goal is to teach more kids about good food and great ways to cook, knowing that the end result is a better life!
To get Canadian families in the kitchen cooking together and to encourage kids to to learn some healthy culinary skills – Uncle Bens has launched a national contest for kids and families to show everyone how quickly they can whip up a wholesome rice dish.
Every week until October 11th, a new video is published online with Logan Junior Chef, issuing a weekly challenge and a cooking tip.
Kids and their parents can upload photos of their crafty cooking to getkidscooking.ca for a chance to win one of three $10,000 RESPs!
This week, the featured video is Logan Junior Chef talking about how to cook with raw chicken. This video provides valuable tips when it comes to raw chicken safety and best practices. While we have a separate poultry cutting board, I have to admit that I don’t have a separate pair of poultry tongs. So, it was a good reminder to start doing this again, since there little learners in my household that need healthy habits right form the start!
In the Ben’s Beginners Weekly Challenge 4 video, Logan Junior Chef also announces this weeks challenge – making a recipe with Uncle Bens rice, chicken, and snowpeas.
And that leads me to Isabelle’s Easy Chicken Stir Fry and our fun in the kitchen one summer afternoon. This particular recipe for Chicken Stir Fry is actually one that I’ve been making for years, for when I need a meal in a pinch.
While there are many recipes for stir fry sauce out there, this particular one calls for only 4 common ingredients. Actually, this entire recipe calls for very few ingredients and takes little time to make – and those are combinations that are great for kids learning to cook.
Like many times before, Isabelle wanted full control in making Chicken Stir Fry. I was there on video duty. Here’s my daughter in the kitchen, showing how easy it is for kids to make Chicken Stir Fry!
Do you have a Uncle Ben’s rice, chicken and snowpeas recipe that you can share on getkidscooking.ca? Remember to enter for your chance to win BIG, and check the site weekly for the next cooking challenges. Good luck!
Now onto the recipe, enjoy everyone!
- 3 Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts cubed {or 4 if they are on the small side}
- 1 sweet Red Pepper diced
- 2 cups Snowpeas
- 1 cup Pineapple diced
- 1 pkg Uncle Ben's Bistro Express Jasmine Rice
- STIR FRY SAUCE
- 1/2 cup Ketchup
- 1/4 up Soy Sauce
- 2 tbsp Apple Cider Vinegar
- 1 tsp Cornstarch
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Pour 2-3 tbsp oil into a pan on the stove and heat on medium.
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Add diced raw chicken and stir as needed while cooking.
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While chicken is cooking, make the sauce by combining all 4 of the ingredients into a small bowl and mixing with a whisk. Set aside.
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When chicken is done cooking; add the pineapple, red pepper and snowpeas. Cook until veggies start to soften a little.
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Pour the sauce on the chicken/vegetable mixture and cook for an additional 4-5 minutes.
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Cook rice as per package instructions in the microwave.
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Serve together on a plate and enjoy!
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I love doing stir fry or burritos!
My oldest makes an awesome chicken stir-fry!
We would make a stir fry with our grandkids or a good hearty soup sounds good too!
We love to make a yummie chicken stir fry here!
I love the sounds of the recipe you made!! Just might try that since I have all the stuff right here!! 🙂
I love chicken stir fry! yum
my son helps me make Chicken Stir Fry
I’m a bit obsessed with sweet Thai chili sauce (add it to everything). So when I’m feeling like a stirfry, I use rice, chicken, snow peas and whatever other fresh or frozen veggies I fancy. A dollop of Sweet Thai Chilli, or some Korma sauce, and I’m good to go.
we make stir fry a lot in our house. Such a great way to get the kids to eat their veggies
I would make a pancit and just add the snow peas and substitute egg noodles for rice.
Fried rice
a delicious chicken stir fry for dinner!
We love chicken burritos with Uncle Bens’ Wild Rice
We like to make spanish rice.
Hoisin Chicken with Snowpeas, onions, sweet peppers over Uncle Ben’s Rice
I always make pans of stuff green peppers filled with rice,meat & veggies. I then I freeze them in serving size for later! Another one I make, our pans of is cabbage rolls with the rice and mixture!
Stirfry only the best!!
With these ingredients I would make Thai Chicken. My grandchildren love to help me cook when I am at their house.
We do chicken stir fries.
we would make fried tortilas and stuff it with the uncle bens and snow peas we have done that several times
Chicken and broccoli stir fry.
i would love to make the recipe on this page with my youth group 😀
I would make Phad Thai Chicken over rice.
rice pudding. thanks
I think I would make chicken snowpea fried rice
I make chili chicken (chicken, green peppers and chili sauce) with basmati rice.
Easy Chicken Stir Fry – looks fun to try with the kids!
we love our stir fry’s here
We make a stir fry sort of dish with chicken or turkey, peas or snow peas, mushrooms, rice and broth
Teriyaki Beef or chicken stirfry!
We stirfry chicken strips and sliced mushrooms, add snow peas, sliced red peppers, bean sprouts, add a sauce made from soya sauce, chicken broth, cornstarch and garlic and serve it over rice.
I would use those ingredients for homemade burritos
I love when kids start cooking, mine still love it and are quite creative in the kitchen when they want to be.
We love to make stir fry and rice pudding with Uncle Ben’s rice
I’m thinking chicken stir fry with baby corn, carrots, peppers and onions
I make a baked chicken and rice dish, but no snow peas!
I’d make fried rice.
stir fry for sure.
We make a chicken vegetable fried rice with those ingredients.
I love making chicken fried rice with Uncle Ben rice!
Id make a stir fry with Uncle Ben’s rice, chicken and snowpeas.
I love Shrimps with fried rice
we love chicken stir fry
I make a stir fry. Try adding some bacon; It gives a great flavour kick!
I’d make a chicken stir fry similar to yours, but would add hoisin sauce.
a terriaki chicken stir fry
We made chicken rice with the ingredients mixing them all together and adding a garlic ginger sauce.
We like to make a rice and bean dish!
Chicken stir fry would be what I would make for sure.
I`d make a delicious stirfry,,yumm!!
i would make a stir fry. Easy to make and always turn out great!
I throw some pineapple, carrots and mushrooms in and add wraps and feta and we’re done!
chicken stir fry
I would make a Chicken stir fry
A chicken, snow Peas and cashew Stir-Fry
ooooo my spicy shrimp lo mein 🙂
We make chicken stir fry using uncle bens rice, chicken, and snow peas from our garden.
I would make chicken fried rice with those ingredients.
We like to make chicken or beef stir fry
I would make a chicken stir fry – thank you!
Chicken stir fry on a nice bed of rice.
chicken stir fry here
I make stir fry with shrimps
We like a good broccoli and beef stir-fry.
We make stir fry quite often. Its a family favourite.
Chicken stir fry or stuffed peppers
I love making cabbage rolls with Uncle Ben’s Rice.
This looks like a nice and easy – and delicious – chicken stir fry.
We make a Teriyaki stir fry we put in chicken, mushrooms, california veg frozen and the sauce, sometimes we add shrimp
Ussuly a nice stir fry to go on top of the rice!
I would makes some wonderful chicken and rice
The grandkids love to help with chicken stir fry and eat some of the veggies raw when doing it.
We love our chicken stir fry
We make Nasi Goreng. It’s essentially a stir fry with rice and spicy peanut sauce on top.
I like making sweet and sour stir fry
I would add Chicken Broth to the cooked /chicken and make a delicious stir -fry.
A chicken stir fry!
The chicken stir fry is so easy and if the kids help they will eat it
Stir fry for sure!
Those ingredients are great for an easy chicken stir fry, but I can see them in a tasty soup as well!
Butter chicken with peas! YES please!
I love making chicken teriyaki on rice with sauteed snow peas on the side.
Um, probably stirfry! my kids LOVE cooking, now that my son is 9, He’s making things like grilled cheese and noodles himself .. but he’s also branced out to actual recipes … he makes a killer bannana bread too
I would make a chicken teriyaki with lots of vegetables.
I would make a nice homemade chicken & rice soup….yummy 🙂
Chicken stir fry is what we love here in our home ! thanks for the chance 🙂
fantastic presentation Isabelle! You could be the next “Food Network Star”. love chicken stirfry and u make it look so easy
We would make a stir fry, easy and lots of fresh vegetables in my garden now
We like to make Honey Chicken Over Snow Pea’s and Rice.
we would make stir fry , my kids love helping cook
We love to make a chicken stir fry
I would pair it with a chicken chunks in pineapple sauce dish.
i would make chicken stirfry
Chicken Stir Fry is fun to make.
I make stir fries and General Tso
I love using this rice for my stuffed peppers recipe.
I’d make a stirfry with orange ginger sauce.
stir-fry is always a hit at our place, but we do the veggies together and then meat separate bc my hubby is a vegetarian 🙂
I like to cook a recipe with Uncle Ben’s rice, vegetarian chicken (fake chicken) and snowpeas – After cooking the rice, add these other cooked ingredients, add some soy sauce, mix it up for a few minutes and then add it to flat bread, such as fajita (heated bread) add some shredded lettuce, shredded cheese and topped with tomatoes and avocados. Serve and enjoy, it’s delicious and the kids will love it too!
We love making a Teriyaki Chicken stirfry.
Love chicken stir frys. I like to add a few cashews on top at the end.
I make fried rice. My family loves it and its great as left overs too.
We would make Butter Chicken with peas, peppers and onions on top of a bed of Uncle Ben’s Rice.
Chicken Stir Fry! Yummy
stir fry!…Love it
my son makes an awesome Oriental Sweet and sour chicken dish with rice and snowpeas.
Would try the chicken stir fry from Uncle Ben’s, which is a
family fav. It seems to always come out fluffy and so tasty.
Make plain rice in our microwave.
Went to the kids cooking site and like the Black Bean Burrito Bowl
recipe. Great idea thanks, for the link too.
We make chicken stir fry!
Chicken stir fry!
I love veggie stir-fry on a bed of rice.
I would make Chicken Stir Fry!
One pan. recipe..in a large skillet that has a fitted lid…saute chicken tenderloin pieces in 1 tbsp of oil or margarine or butter just to seal in juices (don’t cook through), remove chicken from pan and stir in 2 cups of water and 2 chicken bouillon pouches….bring to a boil….add 2 cups of uncooked long grain rice to the skillet and stir…arrange uncooked snow peas in a single layer over rice…return chicken and evenly distribute on top of the snow peas….reduce heat to simmer…cover skillet tightly with lid…set the timer for 20 minutes (nothing to do but wait). Enjoy!
Chicken Stir Fry on rice
I would make stir-fry! Delicious!
These are the basic ingredients we use with the kids for our teriyaki stirfry.
Chili con carne. mmm.
Use it as a stir fry, I like to add more vegetables and some roasted peppers
We would make a yummy chicken stir fry
We love getting the kids cooking!
Looks delish. At what age did you start letting her use the stove with supervision as opposed to ‘help you’ use the stove?
It was probably about a year ago Melanie – so at age 9. I have an induction stove though, so that made me feel super confident. Not sure I would have otherwise, burns scare me!
i have to withhold the snowpeas but we make a spicy chicken/carrot/peppers over rice. its great! not sure what its called.
i make stir fry 3 times a wk love it
I love chicken stir fry!
I would make the chicken stir fry!
i’m torn between a chicken fried rice or delicious chicken and rice lunch wraps. The chicken, rice and snow peas would be perfect in both simple kid-friendly dishes.
We would make a teriyaki chicken stirfry.
I always use Uncle Ben’s Rice when making chicken stir fry!
chicken or beef stir fry
We love to make chicken and rice in the oven!
Chicken Stir Fry is loved by all in our family.
My family and I love chicken stir-fry 🙂
Oven Fried Rice. I put in vegetables. soy sauce, oil, salt and pepper and whole grain rice.
I would do a stir fry with a pineapple sauce base.
We love to make chicken fried rice with our Uncle Ben’s rice, chicken and snowpeas
We would make Chicken Stir Fry.
I make chicken and veggie stir fry.
Stir fry
Eggrolls and Chinese fried rice! Yum!
We make stir fry, but love making soup with chicken, rice, peas and other veggies.
My son loves to make chicken stir fry with rice.
We like to make fajitas with chicken and rice and lots of veggies.
I would make a chicken stir fry and would add mushrooms, yellow peppers, broccoli along with required ingredients.
Since my kids love Chicken, we would love to make a Chicken Stir Fry
I like to make lemon garlic butter rice as a side dish.
Teriyaki Chicken with rice
I definitely love to make stir frys! Just might have to make this tonight.
stir fries are so delicious and easy and I love Uncle Ben’s rice.
We enjoy chicken fried rice.
I’d use those ingredients to make chicken fried rice.
A delicious chicken stir fry
Chicken stir fry for us !!! Yummy
Love chicken stir fry! This recipe looks great, I will try it with my daughter.
Chicken stir fry sounds so delicious.
I’m with everyone else with the answer to this question. I would make a stir-fry with those ingredients.
I would make Coconut Rice with Chicken & Snow Peas.
Stirfry ! yummy
I’m a sucker for a delicious chicken stir fry or rice bowl is good too
I love to make chicken and sausage pieces in teriyaki sauce served over rice!
CHICKEN FRY
Thai Chicken stirfry
baked chicken with sauted carrots and snow peas………….mmm yummy
Fried chicken with rice is the one I ‘d love to make.
add cheese and wrap everything in a whole wheat wrap.
Chicken stir fry is what we make
Love making stir-fry wraps with chicken & Uncle Bens rice & snowpeas. Add some cheese, tomatoes & peppers & you have an awesome lunch. The grandaughter enjoys these.
I would make sweet and sour stir fry
My oldest and youngest daughters love to cook with me and my oldest has started cooking meals on her own (with just a bit of guidance and some supervision). She would make Fiesta Rice with rice, snow peas and chicken (and red peppers and carrots and havarti cheese).
chicken stir fry
I make a stir fry with chicken,red pepper,onions, mushrooms,snow peas and chicken.Your recipe looks so delicious too.
Definitely a stir fry!
Vegetable stir fry!
We use it the most for chicken fried rice, a recipe for it made in the oven, easy and delicious.
With those 3 ingredients I’d make a Crispy Chicken served over a snowpea and ginger salad
Love making shrimp and chicken stir fry.