How To Stir Fry?

[TATTRAT]

Originally Posted by GrillingFool

It's all Tattrat's fault for
posting that link to the beatbox "cooking" video.
I should have been working, but noooooo.....

LOL!!!! Sorry, my Bad!

[GrillingFool]

Add the soy at the end. You might want to thin it a bit with water or stock, maybe
add a bit of sugar. It might be too salty.
To thicken, best to use the cornstarch and water method... about a tablespoon
of cornstarch in 1/4 cup of cold water. Mix well, add to boiling liquid, stir constantly
till thickened.
Dunno about marinating the tofu, I don't eat the stuff.

[Caine]

Stir-fry the meat, or in your case the tofu, in about 2 tablespoons of peanut oil, then remove it from the wok. Add additional oil and stir fry all your vegetables together, starting with the hardest vegetable and working your way down to the softest vegetable. Once all vegetables are cooked, add the sauce and heat to boiling. Add the thickener and return to boiling until the sauce is the desired thickness. Reduce the heat and add the meat or tofu back into the wok and heat through. Remove from heat and it's ready to serve.

[gamecube10074]

Originally Posted by Maverick2272

Bingo! Hot hot hot. We also keep a handy supply of soy sauce, fish sauce, and several Chinese and Japanese flavoring sauces to use. It's fun sometimes to mix and match sauces and see what happens, LOL.

That post frightens me...
Don't mess with our flavors

[Maverick2272]

Originally Posted by gamecube10074

That post frightens me...
Don't mess with our flavors

LOL
As long as it doesn't get up and walk out of the Wok I am OK with it

walk out of the wok.. hehe

[PJP]

All you do is chop vegetables (zucchini, mushrooms, carrots, green beans, red bell peppers...) and stir fry with johnny's salt, blk pepper, and I also use finely ground red pepper powder for a kick. Don't forget to oil your pan.

[expatgirl]

HINT: you know if you're oil is hot enough (and I would suggest peanut oil as it has a high heating temp.) when you can put a wooden spoon in and it sizzles on the tip......start with some chopped garlic to season the oil and quickly add your densest veggies and work your way down..........meat comes about 1/4 of the way unless you want to do it separately.....add soy sauce and other seasonings to taste and at the end thicken with cornstarch and chinese brown sauce which makes the sauce a nice rich brown color.......

[sparrowgrass]

Don't put too much in the pan at once--if you do, stuff will steam and not sear.

(My own favorite mistake.)

[mbasiszta]

Odd. No one mentioned the eggs, which I believe is a staple of stir-fried rice.

That said, I whip 2 eggs up real well and then pour them into a warm
skillet. Cook them with a lid on. You should get a nice mostly flat
solid pan-shaped egg serving.

Pour the finished project onto a plate and cut nice rectangular
egg strips. I like about 4 times longer than across.

Stir them in the rest of your mixture close to the end of the total
cooking job, so as not to break the slices of egg.