Velvet chicken

What is velveting chicken? This guide has the answer! Velveting is a cooking technique often used on chicken or seafood before stir-frying.

Velveting is the key to unlocking the true potential of your homemade stir-fries. It’s incredibly easy to do and involves pantry staples that you likely have on hand.

This velveting chicken recipe uses a Chinese technique that parboils chicken marinated in egg white, vinegar, and cornstarch for smooth, silken meat.

Tender stir-fried velvet chicken tossed in a light, savory brown sauce with broccoli and water chestnuts. The chicken is velveted with baking soda to improve the texture!

Ever notice how the chicken in stir fries at your favourite Chinese restaurant is incredibly tender, and how it's just never as good at home? It's because the chicken breast is tenderised, a method called "velveting chicken". Use this for the juiciest chicken breast you'll ever have in stir fries and noodles! SCALE recipe - click on servings and slide.

Do you ever think to yourself how your favorite Chinese restaurant has the most TENDER chicken in their stir-fries? Well, their secrets are being unveiled, all you need to do is velvet your chicken!

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How to prepare juicy and tender chicken pieces for your stir-fry

How to Velvet Chicken: The word "velvet" is a verb... sometimes. ;-) It's the almost-secret poaching technique that's used to produce tender, succulent chicken, beef and pork at your favorite Chinese Restaurant. If you've been frustrated by less-than-stellar stir-f…