Tesco (our local supermarket) do a great deal: 3 items for £2.50. We usually go for a pack of mixed stir-fry vegetables (onions, mushrooms, grated carrot, beansprouts, etc), a packet of straight-to-wok noodles, and a sachet of stir-fry sauce; the one we used last night was a Chinese Stir Fry sauce, but they do a variety of sauces, including black bean, sweet chilli, etc.
First, I stir-fried some cubes of Willow Farm chicken breast to seal, then added the pack of vegetables; I gave it a good stir, then turned down the heat and put the lid on the wok. I left this for about 5-10 minutes, then gave it another good stir, before adding the sauce and noodles ... then stirring again, with the heat back up high. (It's not called a stir-fry for nothing, you know!!) On this occasion, I needed to add quite a bit of water as the sauce was pretty thick and was getting soaked up by all the veg and noodles; luckily, it was strong enough flavoured to take it.
Stir-fry is SUCH a great meal, in so many ways. It's relatively cheap, quite healthy, zero wastage, very quick and easy to prepare, only one pan to wash ... and most of all, it tastes gorgeous!!
I rather liked the look of it in our new square bowls on the red table mats (although we didn't use the chopsticks they were just for the photo!).
V How difficult can it be to make a vegetarian stir-fry? Simply use the vegetables, noodles and sauce (just check the sauce ingredients to make sure it doesn't contain fish sauce) and add some tofu or a handful of your favourite nuts for protein ... yummy!
The question is, are the chop sticks for show or did you use them?
ReplyDeleteIf you'd bothered to actually READ my posts, instead of just looking at the pretty pictures, you would have seen that I admitted to only using the chopsticks for show!
ReplyDeleteAnyway, you've seen me trying to use chopsticks - it's not comfortable viewing, LOL xx