How to Make Vegetable Stir-Fry

Stir-fried vegetables are an easy and quick meal. However, stir-frying only give your bland veggies a new dimension if you can do it properly. The colorful vegetable stir-fry are mixed with various veggies in a tasty sticky sauce. This effortless vegetarian stir fry works wonderfully as a side dish or a whole dinner.

Your shiny, delicious stir-fried vegetable with the perfect texture will take your breath away. In addition, you will instantly recognize the unique flavor you are used to from the restaurant.

List of the Best Vegetables For Stir-Frying

Here are a few of the top stir-fry veggies from each category to give you some ideas.

Hard vegetables

You need to add hard vegetables to the pan first, as they take longer to cook.

• Carrot
• Mushroom
• Onion
• Radish
• Potato
• Beet

Soft vegetables

Almost all of the stir-fry dish’s vegetables are generally soft. Once the hard vegetables have had enough softened, add these soft veggies; they’ll all cook in around the same length.

• Asparagus
• Bell Peppers
• Brussels Sprouts
• Cabbage
• Cauliflower
• Broccoli
• Snow Peas
• Zucchini

How to Make Vegetable Stir-Fry in Simple Steps

It’s simple to make the tastiest stir-fried veggies! There are only three simple stages you’ll have to follow.

1. cut the veggies for a stir fry

All the best stir-fry recipes have one thing in common: they chop the vegetables uniformly. Here are a few suggestions for this.

• To maximize surface area, cut the aromatics. It includes finely sliced or chopped onions, as well as sliced mushrooms. More surface area allows them to cook faster and assures that the inner portion is cooked properly at a higher temperature, which is necessary for a stir fry.

• Cut the remaining veggies uniformly. Make the portions the same size to ensure that they cook at around the same time. Cooking time is affected by moisture and density. Vegetables with a higher moisture content and density will take longer to cook.

• Chop vegetables that require more time to prepare into smaller pieces. For example, zucchini has more moisture than broccoli and cauliflower combined, so if you are making them together, ensure that your florets are tiny.

2. Process of stir-frying the veggies

• Firstly, take a big pan and heat the oil. You can add a drop of water to the pan to test the temperature of the oil; if it sizzles, the oil is hot enough. Add veggies that take longer to cook. Stir-fry the mushrooms and onions together until they are both soft.

• Then mix the remaining veggies. Add the bell peppers, broccoli, and snow peas. Stir-fry the vegetables until they are crisp-tender. When the vegetables are crisp-tender, they will turn a rich green color. Finally, season it with pepper and salt. 

• Then add garlic. Create a space in the middle of the pan and push the veggies to the sides. You need to add the garlic powder once the butter has melted in the mixture. Without stirring, let it sear before adding it to the veggies.

Process of making the sauce for vegetable stir-fry

• You can make the sauce for your vegetable stir-fry as basic or complex as you wish. However, simple sauces are preferable since they accentuate the vegetables and allow them to shine. When the veggies are almost done, add the sauce and cook together.

• To prepare stir-fry sauce, add coconut aminos, bone broth, or any other alternative soy sauce to the veggies at the end. Then stir-fry until the sauce becomes glossy. The heat will absorb the excess moisture. Add pepper and salt to taste to finish it off.

Conclusion

The healthiest method of cooking veggies is stir-frying them. It is because most nutrients are retained during quick stir-frying at high heat. In addition, this vegetable mixture is low in calories and contains vitamins and minerals such as potassium, vitamin K, vitamin C, beta-carotene, folic acid, and antioxidants. 

Hence, I hope this article will help you make the best stir-fry vegetable.