Cannot stress enough how much you need to get on this stir fry shit. Newly living alone and don't know how to cook? Stir fry. Saturday morning after a rough night and need to whip up something tasty and hearty in a hurry? Stir fry. Approaching your thirties and deciding you need to eat healthier, balanced meals? Stir fry. Pick yourself out a protein, a starch, and like three veggies. More if you want. Then, simply stir and fry
And the most basic sauces to add are soy sauce, sesame oil, oyster sauce, and a corn starch slurry (tsp of corn starch, mix into a quarter cup of cold water. Adjust as needed and as you get to know how thick a sauce you like.) to thicken and make the sauce shiny.
Also, chow mein noodles are ideal as a starch, they were literally made for stir fry. Chow is Chinese for stir fry, and mein is Chinese for wheat noodle.
But rice noodles, rice, potatoes, macaroni (or any small pasta. Don't knock it till you try it!) all good as a starch for stir fry.
For veg, carrots, celery, brocolli, cauliflower, baby corn, green beans, snow peas are all great stir fry veg.
For meat, ideally you wanna marinate for at least an hour before you cook it. Just with some salt, soy sauce, chicken/veg stock powder, and corn starch (for keeping meat tender). You can marinate tofu as well.
I'm looking at my lists and I was trying to be helpful, but I realize, you straight up can stir fry anything. So go forth, and stir some edible crap in a hot pan with oil. 💚
Remember to eat, my loves!
Bean (any) + cabbage + some noodle (or rice) + green vegetable + carrot + soy sauce is a foolproof method to have tasty stir fry cheap























