Stir Fry Sauce
This simple, easy to follow, short taking time – only more or less 10 minutes- practical recipe stir fry sauce will give you an all-purpose sauce with oyster sauce and soy sauce that can be used for beef, chicken, and shrimp. It is also vegetarian friendly. Do try!!
The healthy and delicious stir fry sauce is unavoidable when you want to cook some or many Asian Cuisines. Stir frying is a common cooking method in Asian Cuisines and the nicest stir fry sauce is needed o have best result of your homemade Asian Cuisines.
WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO DO TO MAKE YOUR OWN AND THE BEST STIR FRY SAUCE AT HOME?
First of all, you only need to have several ingredients such as soy sauce, sugar, oyster sauce, cornstarch and some water. The cornstarch is important because the cornstarch will make the stir fry sauce thick. So, the stir fry sauce will grip to the meat making every bite bursting with deep, delicious taste.
Another amazing thing about the cornstarch is because the cornstarch can be used to “velvet” the proteins of the meat such as pork, chicken, beef, fish, shrimp and many others in stir frying, so you will get the original taste and texture for your Asian Cuisines.
One of the Chicken dishes using the stir fry sauce is the nice, tasty and yummy Chicken with Broccoli and Carrots. Once you know how to make your own stir fry sauce, you can cook almost anything and you will always get the best result and you don’t have to go and buy your favorite kind of food using stir fry sauce at the Eatery anymore.
The original stir fry is better not be flooded with too much sauce. The sauce is almost never gripped to the ingredients. So, to have a good end result, mix all the ingredients of the sauce in a tiny bowl before you use them. Always stir the sauce fast before the sauce is added into the stir fry, so nothing stays at the base of the bowl.
It is advisable not to use too much cornstarch because you don’t want to have too soft and sticky stir fry sauce, right? It is highly recommended to use a spatula in the cooking process, so you use the spatula to stir and throw slowly up and down the ingredients in a back and forth moves.
HOW MANY CALORIES OF STIR FRY SAUCE PER SERVING?
This Stir Fry Sauce has only 272 calories for ½ cup of sauce.
WHAT MEALS TO SERVE WITH STIR FRY SAUCE?
The nicest way to serve the Stir Fry Sauce is with beef, shrimp or chicken. Some other meals such as Mongolian Beef, Cashew Shrimp, Onion Scallion Chicken and Beef and Broccoli can be served together with Stir Fry Sauce for more complete Asian Cuisines and for more complete weekday lunch or weeknight dinner.
One delicious pair dish with the stir fry sauce is Cashew Shrimp. For Cashew Shrimp, you need to have the ingredients such as 8 oz of shelled and deveined shrimp, 2 tablespoons of cooking oil, 1 piece of peeled and sliced into thin pieces or 1 inch of ginger, 2 oz or a handful of snow peas.
Some other ingredients such as, ¼ of peeled and sliced into diamond shape of small carrot, ¼ cup of sliced into halves of canned straw mushrooms, and last but not least, ½ cup of cleaned up of roasted cashew nuts. You also need to marinade the shrimp and make the stir fry sauce. You are going to prepare and cook the Cashew Shrimp in less than half an hour. Enjoy!!
COURSE : MAIN COURSE CONDIMENT
CUISINE : ASIAN (CHINESE)
KEYWORD : CHINESE STIR FRY SAUCE
PREP TIME : 5 MINUTES
COOK TIME : 5 MINUTES
TOTAL TIME : 10 MINUTES
SERVINGS : 3 PEOPLE
CALORIES : 272 CALORIES
INGREDIENTS :
FOR THE STIR FRY SAUCE :
- 2 tablespoons of oyster sauce
- ½ teaspoon of sesame oil
- 2 tablespoons of soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon of cornstarch
- 1 teaspoon of sugar
- ½ cup of water
FOR THE CHICKEN WITH CARROTS AND BROCCOLI :
- 12 oz of boneless and skinless of chicken breasts
- 4 oz of broccoli florets
- 2 tablespoons of cooking oil
- 4 oz of baby carrots
- ½ cup of Stir Fry Sauce
INSTRUCTIONS :
FOR THE STIR FRY SAUCE :
- Prepare a sauce pan. And then, all of the ingredients are mixed in the sauce pan. They are stirred to mix properly. The sauce is heated up on low heat until the sauce a little bit thickens. The stir fry sauce is ready for Asian stir fry Dishes.
FOR THE CHICKEN WITH CARROTS AND BROCCOLI :
- The skinless and boneless chicken breasts are chopped into bite-sized pieces. The corn starch is added to the chicken. They are mixed properly, so the chicken is fully coated or covered with the corn starch. Put them aside.
- Prepare a large flat base frying pan. And then, the large flat base frying pan is heated up on medium heat. The cooking oil followed by the pieces of chicken breasts is put into the large flat base frying pan when it is heated. The pieces of chickens are cooked until the exteriors become white.
- The broccoli florets and baby carrots are put into the large flat base frying pan. They are stirred and thrown up and down slowly for several times before the stir fry sauce is put into the large flat base frying pan.
- Continue cooking the Chicken with Carrots and Broccoli for the next 1 minute. The Chicken pieces are topped with white sesame. Now, Your Homemade Chicken with Carrots and Broccoli with the Stir Fry Sauce is ready and you quickly serve it.