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20 Minute Spring Stir Fry With Garlic Butter Sauce

April 22, 2016

Weeknight dinner friendly, this 20 minute spring stir fry with a garlic butter sauce will satisfy on the busiest of spring evenings!

20 Minute Spring Stir Fry with Garlic Butter Sauce :: Weeknight dinner friendly, this 20 minute spring stir fry with a garlic butter sauce will satisfy on the busiest of spring evenings!

Spring rolls around these parts rather slow (in my impatient opinion it does anyways!).

We have a week of snow, then a week of summer-like weather, all swapping back and forth for about 2 months. It’s all just a great big tease sometimes! But I can always count on the last week of April and into the first part of May to really feel like spring around here.

20 Minute Spring Stir Fry with Garlic Butter Sauce :: Weeknight dinner friendly, this 20 minute spring stir fry with a garlic butter sauce will satisfy on the busiest of spring evenings!

We have a gorgeous hedge of forsythia that blooms right around then, and our magnolia tree buds start to wake up. Our local farmer’s markets start opening every Saturday with fresh Michigan asparagus and other greens and roots, and our raw milk share has more milk available to offer.

20 Minute Spring Stir Fry with Garlic Butter Sauce :: Weeknight dinner friendly, this 20 minute spring stir fry with a garlic butter sauce will satisfy on the busiest of spring evenings!

We can always count on Earth Day week being a fun time at my daughter’s school. Last week they cleaned up the gardens by their playground and planted flowers.

20 Minute Spring Stir Fry with Garlic Butter Sauce :: Weeknight dinner friendly, this 20 minute spring stir fry with a garlic butter sauce will satisfy on the busiest of spring evenings!

Our evenings are filled with so much more light and warmth and outside time which can take its toll on any kitchen time for making dinner. I love taking advantage of fresh spring veggies though, so my compromise is a handful of quick, nourishing dinners packed with seasonal produce that can be made in 20 minutes or less.

20 Minute Spring Stir Fry with Garlic Butter Sauce :: Weeknight dinner friendly, this 20 minute spring stir fry with a garlic butter sauce will satisfy on the busiest of spring evenings!

This fresh stir fry has a delicious garlic butter sauce that is light enough for spring but tastes amazing rich and decadent. You really could add anything you wish for the veggies. I love to use chopped radishes as well as golden beets – use whatever you have access to. You can also swap the noodles for rice or leave the grain out all together if you can’t tolerate grain. Sweet potatoes or other root veggies would make a nice starch for my grain free friends.

20 Minute Spring Stir Fry with Garlic Butter Sauce :: Weeknight dinner friendly, this 20 minute spring stir fry with a garlic butter sauce will satisfy on the busiest of spring evenings!

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5 from 2 votes

20 Minute Spring Stir Fry With Garlic Butter Sauce

Weeknight dinner friendly, this 20 minute spring stir fry with a garlic butter sauce will satisfy on the busiest of spring evenings!
Prep Time5 minutes
Cook Time15 minutes
Total Time20 minutes
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Asian
Keyword: garlic butter chicken stir fry, garlic chicken stir fry recipe, spring stir fry
Servings: 6 servings
Author: Renee - www.raisinggenerationnourished.com

Ingredients

  • 2 TB avocado or olive oil
  • 4 TB butter divided
  • 1/2 medium onion diced
  • 1 lb asparagus sliced on the bias into 1 inch/bite sized pieces
  • 5 cloves of garlic minced
  • 1 1/2 cups fresh or frozen peas
  • 1 medium tomato seeds and juices scooped out and diced
  • 1-2 cups cooked chicken chopped (I use leftovers from a roasted chicken dinner or Instant Pot chicken)
  • 1/3 cup white wine or chicken bone broth
  • Pinch of cayenne optional but the slight heat is so good! If you prefer more heat you can add more - I tend to keep it pretty kid friendly for the little ones in my house but add a little more to my plate
  • 8 oz pasta of choice cooked (I use the these gluten free rice noodles. You could use rice if you wish, or if you are grain free just leave this part out or possibly add some potatoes to the veggies cooking or other root veggie for a little starch)
  • Sea salt and pepper to taste
  • Optional freshly grated parmesan to garnish

Instructions

  • You can start boiling your water for your noodles when you start the stir fry and they should be done around the same time.
  • Melt 2 TB avocado oil and 2 TB butter in a large skillet and add the onion and asparagus. Put a generous pinch of sea salt over the veggies and cook over medium heat for about 7 minutes until the veggies soften and sweeten and the asparagus is bright green.
  • Add the garlic, peas, tomatoes, chicken, and cayenne, combine, and cook over medium heat for 5 minutes.
  • Pour in the white wine and the other 2 TB of butter, combine and cook about 5 minutes until the liquid cooks into the veggies and reduces down and the alcohol in the wine simmers off. You can add some splashes of the starchy pasta water or bone broth if you need more liquid.
  • Add the cooked and drained pasta to the veggies and chicken, combine, and sea salt and pepper to your taste. You can garnish each dish with freshly grated parmesan if you wish.

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21 Comments

  • Reply Anna@GreenTalk April 24, 2016 at 3:50 pm

    This looks delicious! I love asparagus and green pea addition.

  • Reply Emily @ Recipes to Nourish April 25, 2016 at 1:23 pm

    Love those sweet spring photos. xo This looks delicious! I love quick meals like this.

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  • Reply Lindsey Dietz May 5, 2016 at 12:25 pm

    Looks awesome! I love easy skillet dishes!

  • Reply linda May 5, 2016 at 12:39 pm

    5 stars
    Gorgeous as always! Pinned. Love that this meal is quick and that garlic butter sauce sounds amazing!

  • Reply Marjorie May 5, 2016 at 2:45 pm

    Such a fun and quick meal. Love all the veggies in this!

  • Reply Elaina Newton May 5, 2016 at 3:05 pm

    Yummy! I love all the fresh spring veggies (I can’t get enough of asparagus right now), although if I made this I’d probably consider it pasta. I wonder what the exact difference between pasta and stir fry is? Cooking time? Heat? #foodiethoughts

  • Reply The Food Hunter May 5, 2016 at 4:20 pm

    This looks amazing! I want it for dinner tonight

  • Reply Jolene @ Yummy Inspirations May 5, 2016 at 6:40 pm

    Looks so colorful and flavorful! 🙂

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    5 stars
    This a super easy and quick dinner! And delicious of course!

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