"Stir It Up" – Who Else Wants to Cook Stir-Fried Recipes at Home?

Stir-fry is a popular cooking technique from the east. It is quick, convenient, and perfect for weeknight meals. Stir-frying involves stirring the ingredients over high heat in a wok or hot pan, which allows the food to become crispy without becoming scorched. You can prepare all types of foods – meat, poultry, seafood, and a variety of vegetables.

It is also healthy cooking because the crisp-tender vegetables will retain more nutrients than boiling them. Stir-frying also needs just a small amount of oil, ensuring that the fat content will be low.

This cooking method, however, is not new. Bronze inscriptions on pots have been found from China’s Eastern Zhou period (771-256 BC). Many scholars believe that the pan or wok was used during the Han dynasty (206 B.C-220 A.D.) but for drying grain and not cooking. It was during the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) that it was first used for cooking.

Restaurants in modern-day China can turn out a lot of dishes very quickly, thanks to the speedy cooking method of stir-frying. You can also use the same technique in your home kitchen to replicate the success of the Chinese takeout. It is perfect for a weeknight when you don’t have a lot of time and want to prepare something quickly.

You can prepare hundreds of stir-fried foods at home. So, you will never run out of options.

In this book, I will introduce you to some healthy and quick stir-fried food recipes that will surely please you, your friends, and your family. I will show you how you make prepare them easily at home.

Happy reading!