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Stir frys
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Ok i have never made one before but whilst mr fussy is away or the weekend 
i want to try some.
So post your variations of what you have and how you go about it if you can please
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i want to try some.So post your variations of what you have and how you go about it if you can please
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I like thai 7 spice with chicken or pork. Mange toute, baby corn, chinese cabbage, bean sprouts, chinese mushrooms, spring onions and carrots.
served with brown basmati rice. also, put some cajun in when cooking the rice.
Meat, veg, soy sauce, teriaki sauce, sweet chilli sauce and chinese 5 spice - simple and tastes good.
fry the meat, chuck the sauce in, then the veg, fry for a few mins and booom tasty meal.
serve with plain boiled or steamed rice for me(i prefer basmati rice). or noodles is good too.
1. Get all your ingredients prepared first. The idea is quick, intense cooking so everything retains it's 'crunch' so you can't be larking about with the cellophane wrapping of your bean sprouts while your mange tout are burning !
2. HOT HOT HOT. You've got to keep that wok as hot as you possibly can.
The veg vicky suggested are all good. Water chestnuts are good too, only about 50p a can and really crunchy. Chinese 5 spice is good, but it does have an aniseedy twang to it, so if you don't like liqucorice i wouldn't use it. Blue Dragon, do a good range of sauces, in little sachets so you're dish isn't swamped in sauce. Chicken and thin strips of beef seem to be the best meats to use. Beef, green pepper and onion go very well together with black bean or oyster sauce. If you don't like really salty food, go for yellow bean sauce.
I was going to say that !
Anyone recommend sauces that are yummy?
I'm not keen on black bean sauces or sweet and sour type things or seafood stuff.
Other than that i am not fussy lol.
The meat will be one of the first things you need to put in.
Onions and garlic and meat and spices, cook for a bit. Things like peppers, mange tout next. Cook for a bit. Mushrooms/beansprouts/sauce (if you put the sauce in first, you'll just boil everything). Cook for a bit. Then anything that doesn't need actually cooking, just heating through like water chestnuts/fruit
Szechuan - spicy tomato flavour
Yellow bean - not as overpowering as black bean
Oyster - rich, salty. Goes well will pork and especially beef and of course seafood
make your own?
hehe made me chuckle
i read that fast and thought u said she put cigarettes in it ha!
Yeah I would go with that, my own preference and is to keep stuff simple you don't want to put too many different ingredients in as you lose the taste from the more delicately flavoured ingredients, its always to put contrasting flavours in, if I was to make one I would use fillet of beef cut as fine as you can. As already mentioned get your pan as hot as possible, ideally till the oil begins too smoke, I like to use peanut oil, an easy combination of veg that will work well is carrots, broccoli and mushrooms very simple but work very well together, fry your beef off add your veggies, a bit of garlic and ginger, 5 spice half an oxo cube a little water and a bit of cornflower.
Beansprouts, chicken, mix of veg, chow main sauce and noodles.