Vegetable Stir Fry. It's Easy, Quick and "Crunchy"
Vegetable stir fry is usually associated with Asian cooking. It allows you to cook vegetable on a high
heat while implementing many motions during the cooking session. Stiring, lifting, even tossing are commonly
used. Surely, it will take some mere energy rather than other methods.
But the result is worth enough. All motions you make will evaporate the water contain in vegetable after
they touched the heat part of the bottom pan, while placing them on the edge side of the pan will allow
the veggies to "rest" for a moment to brown themselves.
It is always wise to prepare all the ingredients before you are start cooking, especially when you
prepare vegetable stir fry. On this method, preparation session could be so time consuming. It requires
all ingredients are cut uniformly on bite site pieces. So, it almost impossible if you do it while you
are cooking. The high heat will have burned your food while you are cutting the others.
In fact, doing a lot of practices on stir frying will enable you to improve your cutting skill, too. But,
please do concentrate while you are cutting the vegetables, since small bite size pieces rule are still
applicable until the cut of the closest part to your finger.
Though vegetable stir fry method is closely associated with Asian cooking, it does not mean that you have to
use an Asian wok, a large deep bowl made of thin metal with gentle curved sides, a long handled spatula and a
long handled scoop. However, these utensils will make the task easier.
The wok is made in such a way that it concentrates the heat to the center pan, with the edges as a warm
resting area. The long spatula and scoop are used to keep the vegetable in all stir frying motions, to ensure
that every piece gets evenly exposed to the heat without scorching and to seal them in flavor. They also keep
your hands away from the heat while doing the motions, too.
Vegetable Stir Fry - Step by step
The steps on preparing vegetable stir fry are similar to sauteing vegetable steps, those are:
- Cut the vegetables into uniformly bite sized pieces. Let me remain you to cut all the ingredients
without anything left. You will have no time to cut them while you are cooking. Once you have the pan hot...
you can not stop!
- Pre-heat the wok over a very high heat. Click her for more information about why we should pre-heat the pan before start stir frying.
- Add a little oil to cover the surface of the pan, you can tilt pan to distribute oil evenly. Wait for
some moments until the oil smokes or you can test the oil with a bit of the aromatics, ginger or garlic; if it sizzles the oil is ready. You can use peanut, corn, or canola oil for stir frying.
- Add aromatic such as garlic or ginger. In less than a minute, they will release their aroma. Then,
you can
add protein (meat, chicken, seafood, tofu) if you wish. Stir well.
- Add the vegetables that will take the longest time to cook first and those needed the least last. Some
recipes allow you to blanch this kind of vegetables first. This method can save your stir frying time and
retain the green color of the veggies, too. However, it will lose the "crunch"
of the vegetables.
- The vegetables should be kept constantly moving in the pan. Once in a while, push them up to the
sides of
the wok out of the most intensely heated part of the pan. This makes room for items to be added to
the bottom
of the wok in their turn.
- If the vegetables seem a little dry, do not add more oil, instead add a little water.
- For finishing, add the liquid ingredients such as soy sauce or sesame oil and seasoning. For
thinly sliced
or shredded dishes, turn down the heat for a few minutes while the flavors combine, adjust the seasoning,
and serve. For dishes with tougher or larger cut ingredients, place a lid over the wok and adjust the
temperature to maintain a simmer so that the food steams until it has absorbed a portion or all of the
liquid, adjust the seasoning, stir quickly, and serve.
By the way...
Seasoning is something crucial when you are cooking because actually cooking
is all about taste. Click here
to review some food seasoning tips for impressive dishes.
- If you wish, you can thickened the stir fried food with a small amount of diluted arrowroot or
cornstarch.
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