Air Fryer Chicken and Broccoli “Stir Fry”

Healthy Air Fried Chicken and Broccoli “Stir Fry”

We love Asian stir fries like chicken and broccoli stir fry. Our new favorite is healthy air fryer chicken and broccoli in the air fryer. With such little oil, this low fat dish “stir fry” dish is easy made in the air fryer. It’s a fantastic quick and easy chicken dinner for weeknights when you need an easy healthy dinner. Best of all, there’s little clean up and all finished in one vessel.

Video: Air Fryer Chicken And Broccoli

The flavor of the chicken and broccoli from the air fryer is fantastic. It’s crispy, with toasted edges and super flavorful. The texture is more like roasted chicken and broccoli, which is just as fantastic. This healthy air fryer chicken recipe is low fat and fantastic when served with some wild rice or brown rice. It’s not greasy and the broccoli is wonderful crispy and flavorful. Give it a try and you’ll be obsessed with air fryer recipes from now on. Dinner comes together so quickly and easily. Again, the benefit is that there’s such little oil when it comes to healthy air fryer recipes!

How to Make Air Fried Chicken and Broccoli

Combine chicken, broccoli and onions in bowl. Add marinade and toss evenly with ingredients. Add all ingredients to air fryer. 

Gently toss and stir ingredients once during cooking. Do this twice if needed. 

Check one last time, if chicken need more time, stir and cook for additional 3 minutes. 

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What are the Best Air Fryers?

There’s so many on the market now. You just need to research and find the ones that fits your needs, capacity and style. We group the basket style air fryers into 2 main size groups: 3-4 qt range & the 5-6 qt. range.  Here’s our favorites:

Cosori 3.7 qt. Digital Air Fryer – “That’s a stylish Air Fryer” was said as we unboxed the Cosori. Beyond being stylish, it has cooked great. The basket is not as tall and wider than most in its size group, which is perfect. You’ll have a lot better results in an air fryer with single layered, spread out foods, then with ones piled high and thick.
The non-stick basket style (non-wire base) & smoothness of the basket tray is also great for clean up.

Ninja 4 qt. Digital Air Fryer – Has a great ceramic coated basket, one of the longest lasting we’ve used. Super powerful fan that will often cook recipes even faster than other air fryers. We initially returned our first one because we thought we wouldn’t like the basket style. After reconsidering, we bought another and are super glad we did. We love it’s basket and just a platform insert. One less bulky thing to wash. This is a great air fryer.

Good Larger Air Fryers

Tiluxury 5.8 qt. Digital Air Fryer – It’s a good larger air fryer capable of cooking for larger families, especially when you need to cook more food. It’s great for cooking bigger batches (ie 4 salmon fillets instead of 2 or 2 lbs of fries instead of 1).
We like that this Tiluxury 5.8 qt has the non-stick basket (non-wire base). Makes for less sticking for delicate meals (ie baked fish fillets).  And we like the digital interface (easier cleaning).

Gourmia 6 qt. Digital Air Fryer – This is quickly becoming one of our favorite larger basket style air fryers. Great basket size, good controls, cooks nice. Clean up is great. It has become one of our kitchen favorites. We’ll often find it as Costco at a great price too!

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Air Fryer Chicken & Broccoli

The chicken and broccoli will cook down and shrink, so if it the basket feels full at first, there will be less volume after everything is cooked. Check out the step by step photos on the website recipe write up.

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: Air Fryer

Servings: 4 Servings

Calories: 191 kcal

Ingredients

• 1 pound  boneless skinless chicken breast , cut into bite sized pieces
• 1/4-1/2 pound broccoli , cut into small florets (1-2 cups)
• 1/2 medium onion , sliced
• 1 Tablespoon  olive oil or grape seed oil
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 Tablespoon fresh minced ginger
• 1 Tablespoon low sodium soy sauce , or to taste (use Tamari for Gluten Free)
• 1 teaspoon sesame seed oil
• 2 teaspoons rice vinegar (use distilled white vinegar for Gluten Free)
• 2 teaspoons hot sauce (optional)
• additional salt , to taste
• additional black pepper , to taste
• serve with lemon wedges

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Directions

1. In a large bowl, combine chicken breast, broccoli and onion. Toss ingredients together.

2. Make the Marinade: In a bowl, combine oil, garlic powder, ginger, soy sauce, sesame oil, rice vinegar and hot sauce. Pour marinade evenly over chicken/broccoli/onion in the bowl. Stir thoroughly to combine marinade over chicken, broccoli and onions.

3. Air Fry: Add ingredients to air fry basket. Air fry 380°F for 16-20 minutes, shaking and gently tossing halfway through cooking. Make sure to toss so that everything cooks evenly.

4. Check chicken to make sure it’s cooked through. If not, cook for additional 3-5 minutes.
5. Add additional salt and pepper, to taste. Squeeze fresh lemon juice on top and serve warm.

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Recipe Notes

• Recipes were cooked in 3-4 qt air fryers. If using a larger air fryer, the recipe might cook quicker so adjust cooking time. 
• If cooking in multiple batches, the first batch will take longer to cook if Air Fryer is not already pre-heated.
• Remember to set a timer to shake/flip/toss the food as directed in recipe.