Chinese Vegetable Stir Fry Recipe

Yummy and healthy stir fried vegetables

This vegetable stir fry recipe / stir fried vegetable is simple, quick and easy. You can make this recipe in minutes.

Vegetable stir fry is healthy as you retain all the goodness of the vegetables by cooking them for a short time.

Ready stir fry vegetables

That is, you do not overcook them and lose the nutrients such as the vitamins. The vegetables taste great too.

Once you know the vegetable stir fry recipe, you can make your own variations too. Add the vegetables you like or have in your pantry or omit the vegetables that you don't like or don't have.

For this stir fry recipe, you can use a mixture of your favorite vegetables such as onions, beans, carrots, peas, capsicum, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, zucchini, peppers of different colors, egg plant etc.

Cut all the vegetables in bite size pieces. Cut them of the same size too.

The dish looks very inviting with all those colorful vegetables.

You do not need all the above mentioned vegetables every time. You can use 3-4 of them at a time.

I like to use cabbage, onions, carrots and capsicums and that is what I am using in the recipe below.

How to make Vegetable Stir Fry :

Ingredients for vegetable stir fry for three servings

mixed vegetables, chopped thin - 3 cups
onion, chopped thin - 1/2 cup
ginger finely chopped or paste - 1 tsp
garlic finely chopped - 1 tsp
corn starch or arrowroot powder - 1 tbsp
soy sauce - 1 tbsp
vinegar - 1 tsp
oil - 1 tbsp
Salt - 1 tsp or according to taste.
Water or vegetable stock -2 tbsp
chili sauce - 1 tbsp

chopped vegetables for stir fry

Cooking stir fried vegetables

Mix arrowroot powder(or corn starch) in a little water or vegetable stock in a small bowl.
Add soy and chili sauce and vinegar, salt to taste. Mix, Keep aside.
Heat oil in a wok. Keep the flame medium.
Add onions. Stir fry for 2 minutes.
Add ginger and garlic. Stir fry for a minute.
Add cabbage, carrots, capsicum one by one stirring a little every time. Start by adding the vegetables that take longer to cook.
Add a tablespoon of water if you want to cook the vegetables soft.
When the vegetables are almost cooked, Add the arrowroot mixture.
Mix well to coat all the vegetables. The sauce will thicken as it cooks so stir briskly. Take off the fire.

Vegetable stir fry is ready to Serve hot.

Serve it on a bed of plain steamed rice or noodles along with a salad of your choice.

Tips:

You can make it a spicy vegetable stir fry if you like by adding more pepper powder and red chili powder. This will change the color of the final stir fry dish a little.
Or you may add one or two green or red chilies. Slit the chillis in half and add them along with chopped onions.
Add a little red chili paste along with ginger garlic. This will change the color of the stir fry a little.
Add more vinegar if you like more sourness
Add soy sauce if you prefer that.
Add a tea spoon of sugar to balance the sourness if you wish.
You may use corn starch or arrowroot powder, whichever you have.

Ready stir fry vegetables