Showing posts with label stir fry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stir fry. Show all posts

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Stir Fry!!

Stir fry is my FAVOURITE meal. It takes half an hour, is healthy and friggin delicious. I get massive cravings for it at least twice a week. Not to mention quinoa (pronounced keen-wah for those who have never heard of it) is the greatest thing ever.









Makes 4 portions:

Ingredients

4-5 medium carrots
2 peppers of different colours (I always use a red, and either an orange or yellow)
1 onion
a head of broccoli
1.5 cups of quinoa
Half a bottle of Renee's Tangy Thai Sauce.
Salt and Pepper
Olive Oil

Prepare the Quinoa:

1. Soak the quinoa in hot water for 5-10 minutes. Rinse it off then put it in a pot with 3 cups of water. Add some olive oil and salt. Bring it to a boil, then put it to a simmer and cover. Let it sit on the heat for 15 minutes, then remove from heat and stand for 5 minutes.

The stir fry:

1. Cut everything up into nice slices. Put the broccoli in a bowl with a little water and cover in plastic wrap with a vent hole.
2. On med-high heat saute the carrots until they start to brown.
3. Add the onions, saute until they start to brown. Turn the heat to med-low
4. When the quinoa has about 10 minutes left add the peppers and continue to saute over med-low heat.
5. Microwave your broccoli for 2 minutes 30 seconds.
6. Add the broccoli to the rest of the veggies. Dump a liberal amount of sauce into them and mix it up. Season with salt and pepper.
7. Scoop some quinoa on a plate, drizzle some sauce over it and then put your veggies on it and prepare to be amazed.

The sauce I use is here and is found in the meat department (yuck) at save on. http://www.renees.com/products_sauces_thai.asp

Last time I made the stir fry I tried this (supposedly) amazing chicken stuff by Gardein. The texture was GREAT, however the taste was awful. It does look a lot like chicken though:



Anyways. I have to go study some more. I am going to post the recipe to my first home-made pizza I've ever made later tonight or tomorrow. It was perfect.