Sweet Sour Stir Fry Food

SWEET AND SOUR CHICKEN STIR FRY

Steps:

• Mix together Sauce ingredients. Mix together Thickener in a separate small bowl.
• Heat oil in a wok or skillet over high heat. Add garlic and onion, cook for 1 minute.
• Add chicken and stir fry until it it is white all over but still pink inside.
• Add capsicum and stir fry for 2 minutes.
• Add Sauce ingredients. Stir until sugar has dissolved and the sauce begins to bubble.
• Add Thickener. Bring to simmer, stirring constantly. Then cook until it thickens to a syrup consistency - about 3 minutes.
• Stir through pineapple pieces (just to warm) and remove from stove.
• Serve immediately with rice - or for a low carb, low cal option, try Cauliflower Rice! Garnish with shallots if desired.

SWEET-AND-SOUR PORK STIR-FRY

Steps:

• In a small bowl, stir together 1/3 cup pineapple juice, vinegar, soy sauce, cornstarch, and 1/4 cup water. Season sauce with salt and pepper.
• In a large nonstick skillet, heat 1 tablespoon oil over medium-high. Cook pork, in two batches, until well browned on one side, about 1 minute (pork will cook more later); transfer to a plate.
• To skillet, add scallion whites and bell peppers; season with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring, until peppers are crisp-tender, 6 to 8 minutes.
• Add pork (along with any juices), broccoli, and pineapple chunks. Whisk sauce; add to skillet. Bring to a simmer; cook, stirring, until broccoli is warmed through, 2 to 4 minutes. Stir in scallion greens, and serve with rice.

SWEET AND SOUR STIR-FRY

Steps:

• Cook noodles according to directions on package.
• Drain in colander and rinse thoroughly under cold water.
• Place colander on a plate and refrigerate.
• Bring 2-3 cups water to boil.
• Cut broccoli florets into bite-size pieces.
• Peel and discard tough outer stems and cut remaining stems into chunks.
• Place prepared carrots and broccoli in bowl, cover with boiling water and let sit 2 minutes.
• Drain, rinse with cold water and set aside.
• Heat wok or skillet over medium-high.
• Add grapeseed oil, garlic and ginger and cook 1 minute.
• If anything starts to stick, add 1 tablespoon water.
• Add broccoli, carrots and snow peas, stir and cook 2-3 minutes.
• Add pineapple, 1 tablespoon vinegar, 1 tablespoon mirin, 1 tablespoon soy sauce and cook 1 minute longer.
• Remove vegetables from wok and set aside.
• Pour remaining tablespoon of vinegar, mirin and soy sauce into empty wok.
• Fold in chilled noodles until evenly coated and heated through.
• Drizzle with 1 tablespoon sesame oil.
• Transfer noodles to serving dish.
• Toss vegetables briefly in hot wok to reheat, drizzle with remaining tablespoon toasted sesame oil and spoon vegetables over noodles.
• Top with sesame seeds and serve.

SWEET & SOUR STIR-FRY

Steps:

• In a bowl, cover 100g of fine rice noodles with boiling kettle water to rehydrate them.
• To make a sauce, drain the juice from 1 x 227g tin of pineapple chunks into a separate bowl, mix with 2 heaped teaspoons of cornflour, 1 tablespoon of cider vinegar, 2 teaspoons low-salt soy sauce and 4 tablespoons of water, then put aside.
• Put a wok or large frying pan on a high heat and lightly toast 2 teaspoons of sesame seeds while it heats up, then tip into a little bowl.
• Place the pineapple chunks in the dry pan, then roughly chop 30g of cashew nuts and add 1 minute later.
• Trim 4 spring onions, slice into 2cm chunks and add to the pan. Let it all char and get attitude while you peel 2 cloves of garlic and a 2cm piece of ginger, finely slice them with 1 fresh red chilli (deseed if you like), and finely slice 200g of sugar snaps at an angle lengthways.
• Add 1 tablespoon of groundnut oil to the pan, then add the garlic, ginger and chilli. Toss for 30 seconds, then toss in the sugar snaps and the more robust sprouts (200g total) for 1 minute, followed by the sauce. Bring it to the boil for a minute or two to thicken, then taste and season to perfection.
• Serve the stir-fry on top of the drained noodles. Quickly return the empty pan to the heat, pour in a good splash of boiling kettle water, use a wooden spoon to really scrape up all that delicious sticky goodness from the bottom, stirring for 1 minute until slightly thickened, then drizzle over the stir-fry.
• Sprinkle over any delicate sprouts, such as alfalfa, along with the toasted sesame seeds, and serve with lime wedges, for squeezing over.

SWEET AND SOUR STIR-FRY

Steps:

• Make sauce; in a small bowl, stir together all sauce ingredients until cornstarch has dissolved.
• Set aside.
• In wok, heat oil over medium heat.
• Add onion and cook, stirring often until golden, about 8 minutes.
• Add bell peppers and asparagus; increase heat to medium-high and stir-fry for 5 minutes.
• Add tomatoes and pineapple chunks and stir-fry for another 5 minutes.
• Stir in tofu and reserved sauce and cook, stirring, until mixture has thickened slightly, about 2-3 minutes.
• Taste and adjust sweet/sour balance to your liking with additional honey, vinegar and/or soy sauce.
• Serve at once.

SWEET & SOUR PORK STIR-FRY

Steps:

• Mix 4 tbsp of pineapple juice into the cornflour until smooth, then stir in the tomato sauce, soy, sugar and vinegar.
• Heat oil until very hot in a wok, then throw in the pork for 1 min, stirring. Lift pork out onto a plate, then set aside.
• Add the pepper, stir-fry for 2 mins, then add the pineapple and most of the spring onions for 30 secs. Stir in the sauce for 1 min, splashing in a little water as it cooks, then stir the pork back in for 20-30 secs until just cooked through - it should still be tender. Scatter with the remaining spring onions and serve with rice or noodles.

SWEET AND SOUR GROUND PORK STIR-FRY

Steps:

• Heat a large skillet over high heat. Cook and stir ground pork in the hot skillet until browned and crumbly, 5 to 7 minutes; drain and discard grease.
• Return skillet to high heat. Stir onion and carrots into the ground beef; stir-fry until the vegetables are hot, about 2 minutes.
• Stir rice vinegar, ketchup, sugar, and soy sauce together in a bowl; pour over pork mixture. Add broccoli and bell pepper to the mixture; stir. Place a cover on the skillet, reduce heat to medium, and cook until the broccoli is tender, 7 to 10 minutes.

SWEET & SOUR STIR-FRY SAUCE

Steps:

• Combine all in a 1-cup measuring cup.

SWEET AND SOUR CHICKEN STIR-FRY

Steps:

• Stir together sauce ingredients.
• Place a wok over high heat.
• When wok is hot, add 2 tbsp peanut oil.
• when oil is hot, add garlic and chicken and stir fry until chicken is cooked (about 3 mins).
• Remove from wok and set aside.
• Pour remaining 1 tbsp oil into wok.
• when oil is hot, add onion and bell pepper.
• Stir fry until vegetables are tender crisp (about 2 mins).
• Add pea pods, stir fry about 1 minutes.
• Return chicken to wok.
• Stir sweet and sour sauce, pour into wok along with pineapple.
• Stir until sauce boils and thickens.
• Serve over hot cooked white rice.

SWEET AND SOUR STIR FRY SAUCE

Steps:

• Combine all ingredients until sugar and corn starch are completely dissolved.
• Stir before adding to stir fry at the last minute of cooking time.

SWEET AND SOUR STIR FRY

Steps:

• Mix 1/4 cup water, the vinegar, honey, soy sauce, ginger and pineapple juice. Place tofu in small glass or plastic bowl. Pour juice mixture over tofu; toss gently. Cover and refrigerate 1 to 2 hours.
• Remove tofu from marinade; reserve marinade. Dissolve cornstarch in 2 tablespoons water.
• Heat sesame oil in wok or 12-inch skillet over medium-high heat. Add onion and carrots; stir-fry about 3 minutes or until crisp-tender. Add pineapple, tofu and bell pepper; gently stir-fry 2 minutes.
• Stir cornstarch mixture into reserved marinade; pour into wok. Cook 2 minutes, stirring occasionally. Reduce heat; cover and cook 2 minutes. Serve over rice. Sprinkle with nuts.

SWEET & SOUR STIR-FRY

Steps:

• Heat cooking oil in wok.
• Stir-fry onion, garlic, lemongrass, ginger, lemon rind, and lime leaves until fragrant.
• Stir-fry chicken with the spices till almost thoroughly cooked.
• Add bell pepper, snow peas, and baby corn one by one.
• Stir-fry briefly just to seal the flavour.
• Add plum sauce, lemon juice, and sambal oelek.
• Keep stirring.
• As the condiments are evenly distributed, add the cornmeal solution and simmer briefly.
• Serve with fragrant rice.