Stir fried vegetables

Natural bodies are divided into 3 kingdoms of nature: the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live, and have feeling - Carolus Linnaeus

Stir fried vegetables for eating with rice noodles, my way

This is the usual vegetables dish I make to eat with rice noodles. Usually, I make with one main vegetable like cabbage or broccoli, and combined with 1 or 2 vegetables like carrot, mushroom or tomato... and depending on what I have in hand...

I use the same seasoning for most of my vegetables dishes.

I don't like ginger in stir fry and don't like chilli heat either, so I leave them out.

I can do without pepper in any recipes except for Cacio e Pepe recipe 😁

I try to avoid additives and preservatives as much as possible; there are already some in soy and Maggi sauce.

So I don't use oyster sauce.

I add hoisin sauce, sometimes, in noodle soups

I won't use Balsamic vinegar anymore except those which don't contain sugar colorant (E150).

Main vegetables

broccoli

courgette

cucumber

Chinese cabbage

flat cabbage

Combined with

bell pepper

carrot

cauliflower

tomato

button mushroom

One vegetable alone (eating with white rice)

asparagus

bok/pak choi

bean sprouts (sometimes with button mushrooms)

green beans

spinach

Seasoning (for any stir fry vegetables)

1 pinch of salt

1 pinch cane sugar

1/2 tsp dark soy sauce

1 tbsp Maggi Seasoning

1 tbsp cider vinegar

Sauce

100 ml water

1/2 tsp potato starch

1/2 tsp Maggi Seasoning

=> place in a small bowl and mix well

=> when I add this mixture in the recipe, I eat the dish with rice noodles

Sometimes, I use one of my favourite dip sauces

3 garlic cloves, minced

1 piece of red bell pepper (about 1,5 x 6 cm), peeled and minced (instead of red chilli, don't like the heat)

1/2 tsp salt

1 fresh orange juice

1 tbsp Maggi Seasoning

1 tbsp crushed roast peanuts

=> in the mortar, combine garlic, bell pepper and salt and grind until it becomes a smooth paste (more or less); add orange juice, Maggi, peanuts, and mix well; taste and adjust the seasoning if necessary.  I like the sweet and sour taste, so add lime juice if needed too.

In this recipe

Ingredients for 3-4 servings

1 tbsp grapeseed or rapseed oil*

1 garlic clove, minced

1 small shallot, minced

5-7 leaves of Chinese cabbage (napa cabbage), washed, white parts and leaves separated, cut into 5-7 cm

1 carrot, washed, peeled, cut into thin strips

optional, garnish: herbs (chives, coriander...)

Seasoning (for any stir fry vegetables)

1 pinch of salt

1 pinch cane sugar

1/2 tsp dark soy sauce

1 tbsp Maggi Seasoning

1 tbsp cider vinegar

Sauce

100 ml water

1/2 tsp potato starch

1/2 tsp Maggi Seasoning

=> place in a small bowl and mix well

=> when I add this mixture in the recipe, I eat the dish with rice noodles

* I'm going to stop using olive oil :

• first, it is more and more expensive and above all, olive oil scams are proliferating

• if it is not scammed, the study found traces of mineral oil-saturated hydrocarbons and mineral oil aromatic hydrocarbons which can migrate into foods during production and transportation (organic or not)... and it accumulate in the liver and lymphoid system of the body, causing inflammation

Method

I don't have wok, I use a stainless steel stewpan.  Even with a large frying pan, the grease splatter escape from it.

1. Heat the oil over high heat, add garlic and shallot, stir fry 1-2 mins until they start to lightly brown.

2. Add white parts of cabbage and bell pepper, and cook, tossing often for about 2-3 mins.

3. Add cabbage leaves, and toss them for about 1-2 mins until they are  slightly cooked.

4. Add seasoning, and keep stirring over high heat for 3-4 mins until the vegetables are a little softened.

5. Add the sauce, mix well, and cook until it has thickened and coated the vegetables.

Serve with rice noodles (usually with flat rice noodles).

Taste and adjust the seasoning if necessary, like a few drops of lime juice.

dried flat noodles soaked in cold water for 1 hour before following the cooking