Anyone have any good stir fry recipes or tips?

Question

Cooking a meal for my boyfriend tonight and want to impress....

Answer 1

Ingredients
2 baby bell peppers
4 tsp vegetable oil
1 tsp sesame oil
½ chicken breast, skinned and sliced
4 spring onions, trimmed and cut into 2.5cm/1½ pieces
1 garlic clove, peeled and finely sliced
1 tbsp clear honey
1 tbsp soy sauce
55g/2oz medium egg noodles, cooked and drained

Method
1. Preheat oven to 220C/425F/Gas 7.
2. Place 1 pepper in a small roasting tray and drizzle with 2 tsp of vegetable oil. Roast in the oven for 12-15 minutes.
3. Deseed and chop the remaining pepper.
4. Heat the remaining oil and sesame oil in a wok.
5. Stir fry the chicken for 2-3 minutes or until sealed.
6. Stir in the onion, garlic and chopped pepper for 2-3 minutes.
7. Add the honey and soy.
8. Stir in the noodles until well coated in the sauce. Serve with the roasted pepper on top.

Ingredients
1 tbsp olive oil
1 large chicken breast, boneless and skinless, cut into pencil thin strips and seasoned
2 tsp clear honey
4 spring onions, finely sliced
1 red pepper, finely sliced
100g/4oz mangetout, trimmed and sliced diagonally
110g/4oz button chestnut mushrooms, left whole
100g/4oz pak choi, thickly sliced keeping the white and green parts separate
salt and freshly ground black pepper
For the sauce:
1 tbsp soy sauce
½tsp cornflour
1 tbsp hoi sin sauce
25g/1oz salted cashew nuts

Method
1. Heat the oil in a wok or deep frying pan over a high heat and add the chicken. Pour over 1 tsp of the honey and brown the chicken quickly. Remove from the pan with a slotted spoon, and set aside.
2. Add the spring onion to the frying pan and add a little more oil if needed. Pour over the remaining teaspoon of honey and allow to cook for couple of minutes. Add red peppers, mangetout, mushrooms and the white parts of pak choi and toss over high heat.
3. Slate together the cornflour, soy sauce, and hoi sin sauce in and mix well. Return the chicken to the pan, add the green parts of pak choi, soy mixture and cashew nuts and cook until sauce is bubbling and thick. Serve immediately

Ingredients
For the chicken
1 tbsp sesame oil
1 tbsp honey
1 tbsp soy sauce
100g/3½oz chicken thigh meat, scored with a sharp knife
For the stir fry
1 tbsp olive oil
1 garlic clove, finely sliced
¼ leek, finely sliced
¼ red pepper sliced

Method
1. Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6.
2. To make the chicken, in a large bowl mix together the sesame oil, honey and soy sauce.
3. Cover the chicken in the marinade and leave for five minutes.
4. Heat a griddle pan until smoking.
5. Char-grill the chicken for two to three minutes on each side.
6. Place in the oven and roast for five minutes.
7. To make the stir fry, heat the oil in a small frying pan. Add the garlic, leeks and pepper and cook until soft.
8. Pour in the marinade mixture and bring to a simmer. Reduce until thick.
9. To serve, spoon the stir fry into the centre of a warm plate and place the chicken on top.

Hope these help, they are delicious

Answer 2

Stir fry is so easy. Find a sauce you like, there are many to choose from. From sweet to hot.
Choose a meat you prefer, chicken, steak, pork or seafood.
There are many different oils to start with also.
And pick the veggies you like, you can cut up fresh or go to the frozen food aisle and find a bag of what you prefer.
If you have a Wok, great. If not you'll be fine with a large skillet or even an electric skillet.
Cut the meat up into small chunks while you are heating the oil in your pan. Wait until it is nice and hot and add your meat, when it appears to be almost done, add your veggies.
Add your sauce in an amount you prefer.
In the meantime you should be preparing your rice.
Good Eats!

Answer 3

Tips, always have a hot wok and use good oils, if doing a chinese stir fry, use sesame oil or peanut oil as the flavour is great. Also, have everything prepared in advance of putting the wok on, as no time to chop things while cooking...as for recipies, I just chop all veg and meat and stir fry with noodles or rice, simple ingredients unspoiled by sauces etc, justa little soy sauce to finish

Answer 4

Use water to cool if it it is getting too hot, not more oil.
If you are making stir fried rice, make sure it is cooked and cooled before using.
Before cooking the meat first and onions make sure the oil (groundnut or sesame only) is smoking before cooking.
Pre-prepare all ingredients before hand as after the meat and onions are 5 mins away from being cooked the veg only take 5 mins tops. All things should be of the same size.

Answer 5

you cant go wrong with this recipe:
1. heat some olive or toasted sesame oil (much nicer) in your wok get it to a really high temperature
2. slice about 400g chicken into stips or chunks
3. fry the off in the hot oil until they are well cooked
4. chop an onion finely and some peppers and carrots into strips and add them to the chicken
5. saute them until they are soft and tender
6. get about 150 ml of water and in 50ml of it put about one spoon of cornflour in
7. make it into a smooth paste and then add it to the rest of the water with a chicken stock
8. add it to your chicken and vegetables and let the stock the dissolve
9. add about 2tbsp of soy sauce
10. at the last two minutes or so add some beansprouts if desired
11. boil some noodles in a pan and when they are cooked add them to the chicken and vegetables and mix well together
12. it is now ready to serve

i hope that recipe is good for you i used it the other day wheni made it and it was delicious!
good luck :)

Answer 6

cut chicken fillets (skinless) into strips. Fy until browned
Add stripped green red and yellow pepppers, red onion cut into wedges and some dried chilli flakes or fresh if you prefer.
Serve with rice

I know this recipe is not authentic but it is excellent and v tasty.

Rules for a good stir fry
use oils that do not flavour foods - olive oil is a v good choice
get the wok extremely hot before you start - it should sizzle like mad when you drop some food or water into it.

good luck

Answer 7

PIck up some chicken (or beef if you prefer) and cut it into thin strips. Bean sprouts, carrot, water chesnuts, mushrooms.

Fry the chicken til its cooked, add the veg for 3 mins more til it starts to reduce a tiny bit, cove rin soy sauce, and eat away. I personally prefer rice, but noodles work with it too. Just cook them, and in the last minute put the rice/noodles in the wok and mix it all together.

Answer 8

I can answer that for you but when I do my stir fry I add mutiple items to my stir fry if you want to know what I put in it

(I put some noodles) and some extra in my stir fry makes it delicious

Answer 9

Hi, i have made a good stir fry loads of times just by popping down to my local supermarket, they have a wide selection of stir fry vegetables, sauces and different meats to put in it, so just go down to your local supermarket and see what they have, its cheaper and quicker to make and sure to impress. Hope this helps.

Answer 10

baby corn, baby asparagus, sliced lengthways.
mangetout sliced, peppers yellow, red and orange sliced.
garlic crushed.
marinate salmon in teryaki sauce, about 5 tablespoons (supermarket) for about 30mins in fridge.
A REALLY HOT WOK OR PAN
fry off the garlic throw in everything else, keep it moving in the wok all the time, a glass of white wine, boil it off, add some egg noodles, and chowmein cooking sauce (supermarket) and cook for further 3 minutes.
Take salmon from the fridge and put on a plate with a plate on top, cook for 3minutes each side... in the microwave, or grill

YUM< I'm gonna have to have that for dinner now!