Stir fry isn’t a recipe it’s like… a style of cooking.
Do you have vegetable? Half a cabbage counts. Maybe you have a second vegetable in a can or perhaps a half frozen bag of vegetable somewhere.
Perhaps a protein? Egg maybe? Bean?
All big solids should be chopped onto bite-sized bits. The size of ur thumb or smaller.
Do you have a sauce, or things that could mix together to become a liquid sauce?
Get ur pan very hot. Put oil in it and let it get VERY hot too.
Ok all the solids go in the REALLY hot pan until it’s all hot and looks sorta cooked. This should take less than 5 minutes and be very noisy
Pour the sauce on and let the proteins get all the way cooked.
Dump it on your plate: Congrats u stir fried.
Stir fry is like… soup. Sure you can plan to make stir fry or soup but 99% of the time I make it because I have random scraps of edible tasty stuff from other recipes that need to be used, so I throw it all together and pour a few extra spices on it and apply heat.
Stir fry is anything that can be stirred together in a ripping hot pan for 5-10 minutes and then dumped on a plate.
Half a cabbage is very good at getting stir fried in my household. Even just cabbage on its own - stir fry it and pour on a random sauce I like. Bam, meal.
Want to get fancy? Cook a grain (rice, noodles, etc.) and dump your stir fry and sauce on a bed of Grain.
Maybe it’s tomato-garlic sauce left over from spaghetti night. Maybe it’s Alfredo cheese sauce, or some sort of wine-garlic-ginger thing. Maybe it’s just straight A1 steak sauce or the last dregs of pesto, or a pat of peanut butter with lime juice and soy sauce.
If you have an ingredient or leftovers that needs to be cooked and consumed before it goes bad, stir fry always has your back.
