Ginger Garlic Stir Fry

Hey all, I wanted to share a recipe that is my go-to for stir fry. It is seriously so easy, fresh and DELICIOUS. Even Chris loves it, and he's no stir fry fan. The secret is my special sauce that I use (eyebrow wiggle and wink).

I love this recipe because it's a good way to use up leftover veggies. I'll usually do this towards the end of the week, when I might have half a cabbage or a lone red pepper leftover. It's filling and satisfying and perty cheap!

Ingredients:

1 c sliced veggies/serving; onions and carrots are always a MUST, and then I like to add broccoli, peppers, cabbage as I have them. If I'm feeling lazy, I sometimes use a frozen stir fry veggie mix.

1/2 c of protein; I usually use tofu, but beef or chicken would be great

1 cup cooked rice/serving

1 recipe of the sauce found below

1 T cooking oil

Ahem. So what I usually do is prepare the sauce below, then I'll marinate my tofu in the sauce. Tofu holds flavors wonderfully. Then I'll throw about a tablespoon of oil in a frying pan and cook it until it's nice and crispy on all sides. If you use tofu, save the marinade; with raw meat, this might be unsafe, so you may have to make more sauce.

Then, I'll remove my tofu from the pan and start cooking the veggies in the same pan (you can use 2 separate pans so you could cook your protein/veggies at the same time), adding a little oil if needed. When they are getting close to how I like them I will throw in the sauce I used to marinate the tofu and let the veggies soak it up a little, for about 3 minutes. Then I pull it off the heat. To eat I usually pull a cup of rice and then top it with the veggies/tofu. Delicious, healthy, and fast.

Sauce:

It's mind blowing how easy this sauce is to make—and how good it turns out. And I like to use it because I know what's in it, unlike Bragg's or other bottled teriyaki sauces that can have preservatives or high fructose corn syrup in them (yuck).

1/4 c soy sauce

1 c water

2 cloves garlic, minced (more if you like garlic)

1 tbl minced fresh ginger

1 t sugar (optional)

1 tbl corn starch

Mix the soy sauce, garlic, ginger, and sugar together in a small bowl, reserving a 1/4 water. Mix the water with the corn starch until it is dissolved, and pour into sauce. Easy peasy :)!