what is stir fry? how do you make it?

Question

whats in it?

Answer 1

It's an Asian way of preparing food. It's pretty easy to make! Get a wok - either an electric one or the skillet kind. (If you don't have a wok, then you can make it in a regular large skillet.) Put a little oil in the wok and get it warm/hot (not too hot though - you don't want it to burn). Add some chopped garlic (and ginger, if you want). If you want meat, throw in some chicken (cubes or strips) or some beef/steak... basically any meat you want as long as it's cut up. You have to keep stirring everything. Once the meat is cooked through or close to being cooked all the way, add the vegetables you want. It's up to you what you put in it. I like to put onions, peppers, mushrooms, snow peas, broccoli, celery, etc. As you add the vegetables, just keep stirring them around. Make sure you flip the stuff on the bottom onto the top so everything gets cooked evenly. You can buy stir fry sauce in a bottle at the store. (Look in the Asian food section.) You can also add soy sauce if you prefer. The vegetables should be cooked but still slightly crispy (in other words, don't cook them so long that they turn mushy). If you are using some vegetables that tend to cook quicker than the other vegetables, you can add them in towards the end. Sometimes we add some oyster sauce to our stir fry when it's all done. It's good served over rice or noodles.

Answer 2

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Stir frying is a common Chinese cooking technique used because of its fast cooking speed.Cantonese restaurant patrons judge the chefs by their "wok qi" (their ability to bring out the qi of the wok, which shows in the food as the look, smell, and taste).


Steps:
1. Invest in a nonstick or carbon-steel wok (you need to season a carbon-steel wok). While you can stir-fry in any old skillet, the wok's depth and sloping sides (it's cooler there, so you can move ingredients away from the hot bottom to the sides) are ideal.

2. Prepare everything you need before you begin to stir-fry. Cut all your vegetables and meats and prepare your sauce. Stir-frying is fast; you won't really have time to chop the broccoli while the onion is cooking.

3. Make sure that your vegetables and meats are all cut approximately the same size - bite size, as a matter of fact. Stir-frying uses high heat, so pieces must be small enough to cook through without burning.

4. Learn the different cooking times of meats and vegetables. You'll need to stagger additions to the stir-fry according to how long they take to cook. (For example, you'd add onions first, and stir-fry for about 2 minutes, then add broccoli florets and stir-fry for 3 to 4 minutes, then add red bell pepper and stir-fry for 2 more minutes.)

5. If you've got a wok full, stir-fry the meat completely first, then add it back in at the end. (This works well for a large assemblage of ingredients, because you ensure the meat cooks fully but not too much.)

6. Heat the pan first, then add oil. When the oil is hot, add aromatics, such as ginger and garlic, and stir-fry for a few seconds, or until you smell them.

7. Start adding your other ingredients, according to their approximate cooking times. When the food is about two-thirds done, add your sauce. If the food will take more than a few minutes more to cook, cover and steam until done. If it will take less time, continue to stir-fry.

8. Practice the basic technique of lifting under the food in the wok with a spatula or other flat utensil and moving it to the side.

Tips:
For the most basic of stir-fry sauces, combine 2 tbsp. soy sauce, 2 tbsp. water or broth, 1 tbsp. plain or rice vinegar, 1 tbsp. Chinese rice cooking wine or dry sherry, a pinch of sugar, and 1 to 2 tsp. of Asian chili garlic sauce (or a few dashes of Tabasco). Whisk in 1 tsp. cornstarch as a thickener.

Answer 3

I usually start with some vegetables, like onions and carrots and celery and whatever I have, cut it up and put it in an oiled skillet, and stir it around while it's cooking. Cut up some meat and add that, and cook and stir it all together. Meanwhile, cook some rice, and when the veggie-meat mixture is about done, pour on some sauce of some kind, and stir in the rice.

Answer 4

You can buy bags of stir fry in your store and take them home to stir around in hot oil..usually in a wok. After it's cooked then you pour it over rice. They have bags of stir fry veggies and meat. Real good.

Answer 5

You fry it on the skillet with a dash of oil.. and as the term would say, you sorta fry and stir it.. usually you'd stir fry pieces of meat of like chinese noodles..

Answer 6

Stir fry is a variety of vegetables with any kind of meat--or meatless. You use a very small amount of oil and stir the food a lot.

I love chicken with brocoli, peapods, water chestnuts and sesame seeds.

Answer 7

Nearly anything.
You can buy seasoned wok oil,
chop some celery, carrots, onions, very thin.
Slice chicken of beef very thin, 1/2 or less frozen, it slices better.
Buy some fresh or canned bean sprouts.
Broccoli, mushrooms, fresh or canned.
Add some garlic to the oil while it is getting hot. Then before the garlic turns brown and burns, remove.
Add your chicken or beef, your broccoli, carrots, celery and onion.
Let cook,
then when it is about 1/2 done, the meat is almost cooked and
the other veggies are getting tender, add your mushrooms and bean sprouts.
You may also want to add about 1/4 to 1/2 c of red or white wine and let it finish cooking.
Server with hot rice, soy sauce.
If you are adventitious, try some of the packaged sauces available and add instead of the wine.

Answer 8

stir fry is usually vegetables..it can be meat too. they are just fried in oil and stirred..i dont know how to explain it

Answer 9

go to all recipes.com type in Stir fry you will get all kinds of ways of making it

Answer 10

You get an order of french fries. Then you stir.