In every stir fry recipe, the flavor enhancement is usually the sauce that is carefully blended to suit ones desired taste buds. Stir fry recipe are frequently derived from home made cooking out of family tradition and acquired taste. It is a mixture of herbs and spices, and sprinkle with Oriental such as soy, oyster, fish sauce, sweet and sour, sesame oil, hoisin sauce and even the sweet chili that can be bought in Asian stores near you. The perfect combination of these ready-made Oriental sauces can totally create an overwhelming aroma and flavorful dish on your fry. However, use the sauces at right amounts to avoid too much saltiness or too sweet for your preferred taste.
In Asian cuisines, you will find these notably in their kitchens to bring out that desired Asian taste in their fried dishes. Home cooking is therefore the secret to wonderful and fantastic fry sauces that provide distinctive flavor to fries. In this article, we will share with you a recipe for a fry just for you to learn and start making your own stir fry at your kitchens. These ingredients are standard and are mixed together to fashion that combination of flavors enough to provide that perfect fry for you. Learning from this, you can create your own stir fry in your kitchen. But before we begin, here is a quick review. When we make a fry, we add the sauce at the end of the cooking, after the food is cooked. This is because fry can burn or over-reduce quickly. So cook the food first then add the sauce and let it boil and then serve the dish immediately while hot.
INGEREDIENTS:
2 tablespoons soy
2 tablespoons dry sherry
½ teaspoon cornstarch
½ teaspoon sugar
2 teaspoons chile-garlic
1 teaspoon sesame oil
The key ingredients are with recommended brands:
Kikkoman soy Dry sherry Cornstarch Sugar Huy Fong Chile-garlic Kadoya Toasted sesame oil Chicken or vegetable stock (this is optional, but often useful for vegetables)
Sugar and cornstarch are also optional. If you use them, especially in large quantities (more than 1 teaspoon cornstarch and 1 tablespoons sugar for four servings) you will produce something similar to a lunch special at a Chinese-American restaurant. Sometimes, this is exactly what we want.
The Thai and Vietnamese stir fries however frequently contains fish and sometimes mixed with soy flavor, but is usually fish flavor alone. The Thai stir fry with basil for example is only flavored with nothing more than soy flavor and fish added with water and sugar, plus the basil.
The Korean fried squid on the other hand is a favorite fried dish. It usually contains a riot of vegetables and is bright red from Gochu-Chang Chile Paste or the Korean Chile Powder or even both. Other versions already include soy flavored, sugar and sesame oil and ginger aside from the chile paste and powder.
Creating your own concoctions for a stir fry recipe sauce is not a dream. Nothing can actually go wrong in your creativity. The sauce you will produce can be improved as you continue cooking.
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