Healthy Air Fryer Chicken and Broccoli “Stir Fry”
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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 easily our best air fried chicken broccoli dish.
Healthy Air Fried Chicken and Broccoli “Stir Fry”
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. The hot circulating air cooks the broccoli crispy and the chicken has a nice crisp sear with very little oil. Once you cook it, you can even add your personal favorite bottled sauces on top for more flavor. This is a great healthy air fryer chicken recipe with so many possibilities for additions and substitutions.
Video: Air Fryer Chicken And Broccoli
Less Oil, Great Texture and Flavor
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.
- We have a second method for less crispy broccoli. All recipe details are below with step by step photos. Enjoy!
Air Fryer Chicken & Broccoli
Ingredients
- 1 pound (454 g) boneless skinless chicken breast or thighs , cut into 1-inch bites sized pieces
- 1/4-1/2 pound (113-226 g) broccoli , cut into florets (1-2 cups)
- 1/2 medium onion , sliced thick
- 3 Tablespoons (45 ml) olive oil or grape seed oil
- 1/2 teaspoon (2.5 ml) garlic powder
- 1 Tablespoon (15 ml) fresh minced ginger
- 1 Tablespoon (15 ml) low sodium soy sauce , or to taste (use Tamari for Gluten Free)
- 1 Tablespoon (15 ml) rice vinegar (use distilled white vinegar for Gluten Free)
- 1 teaspoon (5 ml) sesame oil
- 2 teaspoons (10 ml) hot sauce (optional)
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt , or to taste
- black pepper , to taste
- serve with lemon wedges , optional
Equipment
Instructions
Option 1: Regular Cooked Broccoli
- Make the Marinade: In a bowl, combine oil, garlic powder, ginger, soy sauce, rice vinegar, sesame oil, optional hot sauce, salt, and pepper.
- Place the chicken in one bowl. Place the broccoli and onions in another. Divide the marinade between the two bowls, stirring to coat each completely.
- Air Fry: Add just the chicken to the air fryer basket/tray. Air Fry at 380°F/195°C for 10 minutes. Stir in the broccoli and onions with the chicken (make sure to include all the marinade). Continue to Air Fry at 380°F/195°C for 8-10 minutes, or until the chicken is cooked through. Make sure to stir halfway through cooking so broccoli gets cooked evenly.
- Add additional salt and pepper, to taste. Squeeze optional fresh lemon juice on top and serve warm.
Option 2: For Crispy, Charred Broccoli
- In a large bowl, combine chicken, broccoli and onion. Toss ingredients together.
- Make the Marinade: In a bowl, combine oil, garlic powder, ginger, soy sauce, rice vinegar, sesame oil, optional hot sauce, salt, and pepper. Add the chicken, broccoli and onions to the marinade. Stir thoroughly to combine the marinade with chicken, broccoli and onions.
- Air Fry: Add ingredients to air fryer basket/tray. Air Fry 380°F/195°C for 16-20 minutes, shaking and gently tossing halfway through cooking. Make sure to toss so that everything cooks evenly. Check chicken to make sure it’s cooked through. If not, cook for additional 3-5 minutes.
- Add additional salt and pepper, to taste. Squeeze fresh lemon juice on top and serve warm.
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.
- Do not pre-heat the air fryer for this recipe.
- Remember to set a timer to shake/flip/toss the food as directed in recipe.
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Nutrition Information per Serving
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54 Comments on “Healthy Air Fryer Chicken and Broccoli “Stir Fry””
The marinade was very salty but the chicken and onion cooked perfectly. The broccoli was way overcooked even when added halfway thru the chicken cooking. I think it would be better steamed then tossed with the chicken.
This was absolutely delicious! Easy to prepare, reheats well this is definitely my new go to meal.
Thanks Linda!
Been making this recipe a lot this Summer. It’s been so useful for my diet.
This was such an easy dish to cook in the air fryer. Chicken came out tasty and broccoli was so good.
Really healthy chicken broccoli recipe. This has been helping with my diet.
Really great tasting recipe and just perfect for my keto diet. So glad I can enjoy delicious food while dieting.
The chicken definitely needed to be cooked much longer in my air fryer!
Hi Barbara, thanks for letting us all know. Like we mentioned, timing will vary depending on many factors. It’s good to understand that some air fryers need more time and there’s some that need less time.
Awesome. I misread to add a Tablespoon of minced garlic… and I purposely added 2x chicken, and the pickiest eaters in the house actually paid compliments! So, thanks!
Thanks Carl for the feedback! Glad adding 2x chicken worked for you. Did you have to add cooking time? If so, how much longer did it take for you to air fry?
I liked this recipe and it’s tasted really good.
Absolutely delicious. Your instructions were so clear, precise and informative. I’m thinking of meal prepping and batch cooking this recipe.
If I double up on the chicken and broccoli, naturally I would double all the other ingredients but what about cook time? Would the cook time be the same if I was to double up?
Hi Mohammed, so glad you enjoyed the recipe! For doubling, we just suggest cooking it in two different batches. Overloading a basket style air fryer with a double batch might be too much and the chicken won’t cook property. Or if you have an oven style, it might work if you cook the double batch on two separate racks. Cooking a double batch in an oven style air fryer will require more time too. Just make sure to rotate the racks so everything cooks evenly.
This is an amazing…and it looks soo yummy & sound so delicious…i will trying to make it …Thanks for sharing….
Love it!
I enjoyed this, made some rice to go underneath it but what could I add to it after to make it a bit more “saucy”? More like a stir fry?
Hi Heather! Thanks for asking and we’ve been working on an additional sauce to add to the air fried chicken and broccoli. We hope to have the new and easy sauce recipe soon.
I loved how flavorful this came out with an extra drizzle of soy sauce. And my kids love very crispy broccoli, so I cooked the broccoli for 4 minutes in our air fryer oven. It’s a big one so the extra cooking time really helped. Really great recipe.
I don’t have a basket like this one you have. My basket turns. Would it be getter to cook it on the tray?
Hi Sharon, what try are you referring to? The tray in an oven style, or a tray to put in the basket?
Excited to try this. You said to prepare marinade and add chicken and veggies. But do we marinade it for several hours before cooking? Or no? You didn’t specify.
Hi Sherry! No, you don’t have to marinate it too much ahead of time. We usually just add the marinade, stir to evenly combine and then air fry. It’s a super quick and easy recipe. Enjoy!
Thanks For Sharing this Amazing Recipe. The first time I made it I cut the broccoli too small. Then the second time was perfect because I understood more of how my air fryer model cooks.