Wasn’t feeling like spending a lot of effort on cooking last night, but still wanted something fresh, delicious and quick to prepare. So… I just made a nice, simple stir fry. I here try to reproduce what I did from memory.
Started by heating some oil in a wok, adding a teaspoon or two of mustard seeds. Leave until the mustard seeds start to pop (that gives the oil a nice flavour).
Add a finely chopped onion, a finely chopped chili (this is all the chili i used in this, adds nice flavour, a tiny bit of spice and it’s certainly not too much) and some crushed garlic (I used 2 cloves of some good organic garlic… may want more or less depending on the strength of your garlic).
Basically, you want the onions to start going clear… I also added a tiny amount of turmeric.
I then added some finely chopped capsicum, then some carrots. It’s about now that I added some light soy sauce. Keeps things moist and adds nice flavour.
In a mortar and pestle, I ground up some sesame seeds, cumin and cardamon (not much of each, the aim is to add subtle flavours) and then add to mix. I also added some roughly chopped swiss-brown mushrooms (button mushrooms would work too, I just felt like the swiss-brown as they have a nice flavour). I also added a bit more of the light soy, just to keep things moist.
I also added finely chopped broccoli and at the end snow peas.
Served on rice, delicious.
Was interesting for me as I usually end up using tofu and creating some sort of sauce to go over a stir fry. This was flavoursome (Michael also thought so, ended up coming over for food before we all went out), filling and there’s left overs :)
(I also used my Microwave’s wonderful “Rice” button… I love that. Obviously, put the rice on *FIRST* before you start any prep for the stir fry. Both were ready about the same time.)