Creamy Chicken and Broccoli

All ingredients are approximate - do alter things around to suit your own taste/budget.  You might want to add more mushrooms, omit the onion, add extra chicken or make it spicier for instance

This is what I used:

1 onion

2 tsp olive oil for frying

200g broccoli heads

2 mushrooms - about 75g

the meat from 2 chicken drumsticks and 2 thighs (about 250g of meat)

1 tsp dried herbs

pepper

1 vegetable stock cube (or chicken.  I only have veg etable cubes in the house because they can be used in any dish)

1/2 pint water

1/2 pint milk - i used oat milk

3 tablespoons cornflour mixed with a little of the oat milk for thickening

black pepper

half pint (1/4 litre) of water

half pint (1/4 litre) of milk or plant milk

3 tablespoons of cornflour (corn starch)

Put the broccoli in the pan and carry on stirring as before while you chop the mushrooms.

stir frying onion and broccoli

and again keep stirring the onion broccoli and mushrooms while you dice your chicken if it's not already done

Then add the diced chicken

stir frying chicken and vegetables

 Stir fry until the chicken is well browned

stir fried chicken and vegetables

Take the pan off the heat and add half a pint (1/4 litre) of water plus whatever seasoning you've chosen to use

adding water to chicken and vegetables

vegetable stock cube

As it's heating up again, give the cornflour again as it has probably gone a little "stiff".  Then slowly pour it in while continually stirring. 

Keep stirring until it has thickened.

If you don't keep stirring it might go lumpy.

creamy chicken and broccoli with potatoes

there are so many ways you can serve this dish.... with pasta, rice, couscous, potatoes or in a pie.

If you've got some bones and odd bits of veg left over, you can  make some delicious chicken and vegetable soup the next day

chicken bones for soup