How To Make Quick and Easy Stir-Fry
This easy, 20-minute stir-fry recipe is complete with veggies, carbohydrates, and proteins. Easily change up this recipe with your fave veggies and meat!
Serves:
Ingredients
- 2-3cupsveggies of choice,such as broccoli, scallions, carrots, onions, peppers, spinach, squash, tomatoes, zucchini
- ½lbpasta,or 1½ cups rice
- 1½cupsprotein,such as beef, chicken, pork, shrimp, seafood, tofu
- 2tbspolive oil
- 2-3tbspsoy sauce,to taste
- 1tbspbrown sugar,or more to taste
- 1tbsprice vinegar
- 2clovesgarlic,minced
- ½tspsesame oil
- 1tspSriracha,add more/less to taste, optional
For Garnish:
- freshly ground black pepper
- toasted sesame seeds
- chili flakes
Instructions
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Prepare noodles or rice according to directions.
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In a small saucepan, add in each of the sauce ingredients and whisk together. Cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally until the brown sugar is dissolved. Do not burn.
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Meanwhile, stir-fry the protein in a large skillet or wok with olive oil over medium-high heat until cooked. Remove protein from skillet and set aside.
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Add veggies to skillet, and stir to coat in the remaining oil. (Add ½ tablespoon oil if need be.) Stir-fry the veggies in the skillet over medium-high heat for 3 to 4 minutes.
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Then add in the (drained) noodles or rice, along with the cooked protein.
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Pour sauce evenly over stir fry and stir to coat. Cook for an additional 1 to 2 minutes. Add sesame oil and sriracha, if desired.
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Then garnish with sesame seeds and freshly ground black pepper, and serve!
Nutrition
- Calories: 389.74kcal
- Fat: 10.99g
- Saturated Fat: 1.57g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 7.01g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 1.73g
- Carbohydrates: 61.09g
- Fiber: 2.67g
- Sugar: 5.18g
- Protein: 10.95g
- Sodium: 592.27mg
- Calcium: 27.77mg
- Potassium: 241.68mg
- Iron: 1.31mg
- Vitamin A: 1.61µg
- Vitamin C: 5.19mg
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