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Vegetable Stir Fry

Vegetables are stir fried in a big wok on high heat and later infused with a wonderful sauce with umami flavour.
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Servings: 4
Course: Main Course, Side Dish
Cuisine: Chinese

Ingredients
  

  • 2 Cups Broccoli,cut into big florets
  • 1 Cup Mushroom(big pieces)
  • 1 Cup Baby corn( Whole)
  • 1 Cup Red Pepper (cut into strips)
  • ½ Cup Yellow/Green Pepper(Cut into Strip)
  • 1 Cup Carrot (Cut into fine slices)
  • ½ Cup Onion chopped into big pieces.
  • 2 Tbsp Garlic,chopped.
  • ¼ Cup Green Onion
  • 1 Tbsp Sesame Seeds(optional)
  • 1 Tbsp Canola oil
  • 1 Tsp Sesame oil
For Making the Sauce
  • 2 Tbsp Soy Sauce
  • 1 Tbsp Hoisin Sauce
  • 1-2 Tbsp Schezwan Sauce or any chilli sauce of your choice. You can increase or decrease the quantity depending on your situation.
  • 1 Tsp Brown Sugar
  • 1 Tbsp Water(optional)
  • 1 Tbsp Corn Starch(optional)

Method
 

  1. Prepare all the vegetables by washing and slicing them.
  2. Its always better to use same sized vegetables in stir fry (so that they can cook at the same time)
  3. Take a wok/Heavy bottomed pan.
  4. Turn the heat on high.
  5. Add ½ Tbsp of Canola oil to it .
  6. Stir fry all the mushrooms first on high heat .Use a little sprinkling of salt on it .
  7. I prefer doing mushroom first since,It is full of water and after stir frying it alone it looks and tastes great(after loosing water)
  8. Remove it in a plate,and keep aside.
How to make Stir Fry Sauce.
  1. Mix every thing together written under Sauce except ,water and corn starch.
  2. Mix water and corn flour together and then mix with other sauces.
  3. Your Stir Fry Sauce is ready .
  4. If you want you can add ½ tsp of red pepper flakes to it .
Making of Vegetable Stir Fry
  1. Take a wok and heat it on high flame.
  2. Add 1 tsp of Sesame oil and ½ Tsp of canola oil to it .
  3. Smoke it .
  4. Add garlic ,fry it for 30 seconds and then add onion to it .Saute it till it looks little transparent.
  5. You should always fry crunchy .crispy vegetables first .
  6. Add carrot ,fry it for one minute.
  7. Then add broccoli,baby corn and saute it for one minute.
  8. Add peppers to it .Sprinkle just a pinch of salt on broccoli,while sauteing.Saute for 2 minutes on high flame .
  9. Now add mushroom ,which we have kept aside.Mix it .
  10. Drizzle our stir fry sauce all over it .Coat all the vegetables nicely with the sauce.Let it thicken foe a while (1 minute on high flame )
  11. Stir it and place on a serving platter.
  12. Garnish with sesame seeds and green onion.
  13. Your vegetable stir fry is ready .
  14. Serve it with some Rice or Noodles.You can have them alone as well.
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