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How to cook Hoisin Chicken Stir Fry

Here I’ll let you know how to cook Hoisin Chicken Stir Fry, it is just one of the protein recipes we have here at Protein Guy.

If you didn’t know already, hoisin sauce is a Chinese barbeque sauce that is used for dipping, glazing meat and also as we use it here, to add to our stir fry dishes.

In this high protein, low carbohydrate recipe that is easy to cook and full of flavour you don’t really have to prepare much and adding in the sauce is as easy as mixing it through.

You can also add in a lot more or other varieties of vegetables in place of what’s listed below depending on your goals and how many calories you are allowed.

Cooking this high protein recipe should take around the half hour mark or just over.

This time depends on the volume of food to prepare and also how good you are with the chopping knife.

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What are the benefits of a High Protein Diet?

Written by Protein Guy

This is a great old question that is more than likely asked in every Health Food Shop, Supplement Store, Pharmacy and Chemist across the country on a daily basis by people coming in who are learning about nutrition and how protein is a big part of their daily diet.

So in saying that, what are the benefits of a high protein diet?

The benefits are numerous (and I will go into a few of the details below), also of note is that you generally won’t find a diet or type of diet that doesn’t include protein in it somewhere.

If it doesn’t have a bit of protein in it, I’d be questioning it because proteins and the amino acids contained in them are the building blocks of life and you can’t live on carbohydrates alone.

Now in regards to the my meaning of a high protein diet, I don’t mean you are having massive amounts of protein each day, I mean high protein because you are eating protein at a level higher than your carbohydrate intake and also at a bit higher rate than is usual for you and you normal diet.

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