A Few Easy Stir Fry Recipes Sauces For The Home

Easy Stir Fry

Stir fry is popularly known as the quick and easy method of stirring and frying thinly sliced vegetables, meat, fish, and poultry over high flame.  It is also an excellent solution to weeknight dinners after as long tired day at work.  This is a very nutritious way to make dinner for the entire family.  Honestly, when you get into stir frying, you won’t really need those recipes for you to make a great stir fry dish in your kitchens.  Simply choose a protein source then add some fresh vegetables and throw them in the high flame.  However, the flavors are provided by the sauce and for this we are introducing a few recipes for stir fry sauces in this article.

 In stir frying, it is common that once the ingredients are thoroughly cooked, they are at the end mixed together with a sauce.   Today, there are ready made sauces available commercially but most of them tend to have higher sodium content than home-made sauces.  Therefore, we prefer home-made sauces and they are very easy to make.   Enjoy the sauces and have fun in your kitchens.

1.    BASIC SAUCELESS STIR FRY:  Not every stir fry really use that standard stir fry sauce.  The old trick of preparing a sauce less stir fry is:

• aromatic herbs (basil and mint leaves)
• mince some fresh garlic, add a little
• freshly ground ginger and sprinkle some quality
• Sea salt and you have a delicious meal. 
• You can also moisten the food a little by adding some flavored or toasted sesame oil over the dish before serving them.  You now have your sauce less stir fry. 

2.    THE BROWN SAUCE - The basic popular brown sauce is made by mixing:

• 2 tablespoons soy sauce with
• 1 tablespoon freshly grated ginger,
• ¼ teaspoon clove power, and
• 1 tablespoon molasses. Add
• 2/3 cup cornstarch slurry (mixture of cornstarch and water) to thicken your sauce. 
• 1 teaspoon dry sherry,
• 1 green onion (minced), and either
• 4 red chilies (fresh or dry) or 2 teaspoons crushed red pepper.

3.    WHITE SAUCE - To prepare this basic white sauce, simply combine

• 1 tablespoon freshly grated ginger,
• 1 garlic clove (minced),
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce, and
• ¾ cup stock.
• In a small bowl, mix 2 tablespoons of water and
• 1 tablespoon of cornstarch and stir until dissolved.
• Add the cornstarch liquid to the rest of the sauce.

4.    SWEET AND SOUR - Mix

• ¼ cup stock,
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce,
• 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar,
• 1 tablespoon brown sugar, and
• ½ teaspoon red pepper flakes. Mix
• 2 tablespoons of water and 1 tablespoon of cornstarch together.  Fully dissolved, the cornstarch slurry is added to thicken the sauce.

   
TIPS:  You can also just whip up your own special sauce based on the common stir fry sauce ingredients that follows.  Simply choose a combination of the following; soy sauce, oyster sauce, hoisin sauce, fish sauce, Xo sauce, sesame sauce, vinegar, peanut sauce, Sichuan pepper, white pepper, freshly grated ginger, green onions and five spice powder.  Remember that cornstarch is usually dissolved in a little water first and is flavorless intended to thicken the stir fry sauce only, however the arrowroot thickens and adds a subtle flavor to the sauce.   Have fun and make your own recipes for stir fry sauce at home.

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A delicious Easy Stir Fry That You Can Do At Home

Easy Stir Fry

This easy to make dish is absolutely worth trying but that is if you love cream sauce since it will be filled with it.  This is a super easy and quick dish to make and could provide a different taste from your ordinary stir fries.  Our family likes it and they are no left-over pieces whenever they enjoy this dish at home.  The chicken will be so saucy we always cooked this whenever we want moist chicken for dinner.  We always make this at home and are now part of our regular menu as a jump-off from the regular Asian stir fries.  It is different and even our visitors who tried have copied our recipe to try it on their own kitchens.

MUSTARD CREAM CHICKEN ON TOP OF WATERCRESS:

You can use any brand of regular mustard or what you have on hand and a drop of Splenda or Stevia, and serve on a bed of green leaves or whatever is fresh and available from your garden or the farmers' market.  We also use the spicy brown mustard because it turns out great.  But just add it according to the right kick.  You can also substitute half of the whipped cream if it is too much for the diet.  We found this dish a little bland, but maybe the Dijon mustard could be better for some of you or add some white wine in the sauce according to desire.  If you use watercress, however, it would be perfect.

Some modify this recipe by marinating the chicken breasts in the sauce and then baked in the oven. But this really does not add anything to the dish beside from the evaporation of sauce.  But if you want to experiment on it, leave some sauce behind before baking the chicken so you will have something to dip upon when serving the dish.   Bake at 350 for about 15 minutes and you are done.  This recipe can yield two servings but if you need more, just double the ingredients.  It can be prepared in forty five minutes.

TIPS:  If you want a side dish, serve couscous mixed with sautéed red bell pepper with some carrots and dill. Then buy a strawberry tart to finish it as dessert.

WHAT YOU NEED TO HAVE:

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• 1 bunch watercress, stems trimmed
• 2 chicken breast halves, please remove the skin and debone it
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1/3 cup canned low-salt chicken broth
• 1/4 cup whipping cream
• 2 1/2 tablespoons honey Dijon mustard

Preparation

• Divide watercress between 2 plates.
• Place chicken between sheets of waxed paper.
• Using a rolling pin, please pound the chicken to even 1/2-inch thickness pieces. Then peel off paper after you are done.
• Sprinkle chicken with salt and pepper.
• Melt butter in heavy medium skillet over medium heat.
• Then add the chicken and sauté till cooked through and no longer pink in the insides for about four minutes on each side.
• Place chicken atop the watercress leaves.
• Then add the broth, the cream and mustard to skillet.
• Let it boil until the sauce thickens, but whisk often for about two minutes only.
• Please season it with salt and pepper.
• Then using a spoon, pour the sauce over the chicken in the platter that is over the watercress leaves.
• Serve this easy stir fry recipe while hot with hot steaming rice.

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