1 Amazing Ginger Chicken Stir Fry to Try Right Now

If you had only one chance in life to cook a Chinese inspired dish, ginger chicken stir fry is the ONE RECIPE you have to make.

Ginger chicken stir fry combines ginger chicken, asian vegetables, bok choy leafy greens, and peanuts set on top of thick Udon noodles. If you love a quick weeknight meal, this one fits the bill. Using frozen Asian vegetables instead of assembling them all myself, makes this super easy to throw together even on Wok Wednesday! Honestly, this recipe is so good you might even think twice before ordering out again!

This post is all about ginger chicken stir fry!

Gut Healthy Micro Superstars Featured in Ginger Chicken Stir Fry

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Best Ginger Chicken Recipe

Really, this is the BEST ginger chicken recipe and it is so easy. To make the ginger chicken, all you’ve got to do is place 2 tablespoons of arrowroot powder in a bowl. Add Tamari. Add chicken. Stir!

Ginger Chicken Stir Fry Marinade

In this ginger chicken stir fry marinade, I use arrowroot powder. Arrowroot powder is far better for you than corn starch and does the same thing to emulsify your liquid. In this case, the liquid is Tamari sauce.

Arrowroot powder contains more dietary fiber than corn starch and also packs in more calcium (Medical News Today, 2022). Did I mention it is gluten free?

Bob’s Red Mill has a nice arrowroot powder that will last for a LONG time. It also comes in a resealable bag, which helps keep it fresher longer. You can pick it up from Whole Foods (linked through Amazon below). Or, it is available in most local grocery stores.

(Masterclass, 2021)

You can find Tamari, like this one shown below, at Whole Foods or at your local grocery store!

You might be thinking, weren’t we talking about GINGER garlic chicken stir fry? Ummm, where does the ginger come in? Add fresh ginger to your wok while stir frying! Fresh ginger is way better than dried ground ginger and packs a ton of gut healthy benefits.

Gut Healthy Garlic Ginger Chicken Stir Fry

Making the garlic ginger chicken stir fry is super easy. Better yet, it’s a fantastic way to get all the gut health benefits from ginger root and garlic! First, let’s talk about ginger root health benefits.

Ginger root is an excellent source of Faecalibacterium. Faecalibacterium is an intestinal flora and an anti-inflammatory bacteria. If you are lucky, or you are eating well, it lives in your intestines.

When you hear Faecalibacterium, you might be thinking, ewwwwwwwwwww gross.
But, really, it’s actually an “Oh! That is awesome!” This is because Faecalibacterium is usually found in healthy people’s guts.

Dr. Kait

In fact, monitoring the presence, or lack thereof, or faccould be a way to early identify various intestinal disorders (Siles et al., 2017; Wright et al., 2015). So, how do you get this Faecal-something into your intestine? Well, one way is to add ginger to your diet (Wang et al., 2021).

Fresh Ginger is REALLY Good For You

Fresh ginger is full of healthy benefits! In a recent study on the benefits of ginger, scientists used a randomized controlled trial, which is the gold standard for medicine, and followed 123 healthy adults who agreed to drink ginger juice every day and a control group of similarly matched people (using a lot of fancy stastistical techniques to do so) who were not drinking ginger juice.

Doctors measured their microbiota gut health Pre, During and Post intervention and found: 

• LESS inflammatory bacteria ratios (good vs. bad bacteria) in people’s gut
• MORE anti-inflammatory bacteria ratios in people’s gut
• SIGNIFICANT BENEFIT for those drinking ginger juice even over a short period of time.

And guess what? Other studies found similar results (Mozaffari-Khosravi et al., 2016; Jiang et al., 2013). 

Take Out Worthy Garlic Ginger Chicken Stir Fry

This ginger chicken stir fry seriously IS take out worthy! Like I said, after making it, you may skip the take out all together! Another ingredient that makes this stir fry so good is the fresh garlic.

Eating Garlic Everyday Benefits

Garlic is full of healthy micro superhero bacteria including allicin, vitamin C, vitamin B6 and Manganese. These superhero micro bacteria work inside your gut to keep you healthy. Garlic supports your immune system, decreases high blood pressure and cholesterol, and even can jumpstart your energy levels!

Fresh Garlic vs Minced Garlic Health Benefits

Let’s start with the question of fresh garlic vs minced garlic health benefits. Before devoting myself to all things gut health, I routinely bought minced garlic. It’s easy, it’s still kind of fresh, like more fresh than garlic powder, it lasts longer than a fresh head of garlic, and it doesn’t have to be chopped. Meaning time saver. 

PROBLEM WITH MINCED GARLIC

Unfortunately, jarred garlic loses a significant amount of the special healthy micro superheroes that make garlic healthy for you, enter Allicin.

Allicin is a healthy superhero in garlic that is really good for you. However, garlic stored in water at room temperature loses half of its allicin in 6 days. And, garlic stored in vegetable oil lost half of its allicin in less than an hour.

Dr. Kait See Fujisawa et al., 2008 for all the details)

Therefore, the minced garlic you buy at the store has certainly at least half if not less than half the allicin as compared to fresh garlic. Though, doctors did find that minced garlic stored in jars may have some of the immune boosting and cancer reducing benefits (Fujisawa et al., 2008). 

So, to recap, IN ORDER OF HEALTH BENEFITS:

1. Garlic Health Benefits Raw, Most Benefit!
2. Minced Garlic, Some Benefit
3. Garlic Powder Seasoning Health Benefits, Little

Buy Garlic Fresh!

You can find garlic at most grocery stores including Aldi where you can get a bag of 4-5 heads of garlic for 69 cents a pound. Seriously! Or, you can buy organic garlic at Whole Foods. Organic is definitely the best choice for your gut health since it is free of GMOs and other pesticides that have been shown to interfere with the good guys in your gut. I’ve linked organic garlic at Whole Foods below.

Fresh garlic is a definite staple ingredient in any kitchen cupboard.

The Garlic Allicin Benefits

Garlic’s superhero allicin is one of the primary components driving its health benefits. When garlic is cut, crushed, minced, or chewed it activates the alliinase inside. Activated alliinase creates a chemical reaction and becomes allicin. Allicin provides us with many of garlic’s benefits.

(Bulsiewicz, 2020, p. 161)

Try Ginger Garlic Chicken Stir Fry Tonight!

Before you make asian recipes at home, they can seem a bit intimidating. If you’re anything like me, maybe you’ve felt the same. But, after you make this ginger garlic chicken stir fry you’ll be owning the kitchen with your large skillet or wok!

Looking for the Right Wok to Make Your Wok Wednesday a Tradition?

The wok pictured above is the first one I’ve found that can hold enough food to accommodate our large family. I love Rachel Ray, and her wok is a keeper.

This wok measures 14 inches wide. If you have a big family, you’ll have room to actually STIR the stir fry. If you don’t have a big family, this wok is still THE BEST because you will save your self so much clean up!! All the food will stay in the wok instead of splattering all over your stove top.

Better yet, it is oven safe up to 400 degrees! As a side note, the wok is perfect for baking frittata. If you don’t have a wok, you can find one in the link here!

This Ginger Chicken Stir Fry is the ONE Recipe You’ve Got to Try

Ginger chicken stir fry is an easy weeknight meal that is so so good! It’s easy enough to throw together on a weeknight but looks good enough to serve at your next dinner party. Give it a try tonight and post your comments below!

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