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Fresh Bell Pepper Stir Fry

We’ve done some other stir frys, like one with noodles. This time we chose to go with our Indian rice that we use. Stir fry should always be a go-to if you have fresh veggies in the house. This stir fry centers around bell peppers as I grabbed a bunch from the grocery for a great price. Easy to do, if you’re pressed for time at night, you could always chop them earlier on or the night before (I chopped them up before our push-muscle workout–sample here). This can be vegetarian or not, I added some chicken in for Chris, and I stayed with the veggies.

My plate

My plate

  • Prep Time: 15 minutes
  • Cooking Time: 10 minutes
  • Serves: 3 normal people [I always have to put in normal because Chris eats everything in the world]

Ingredients

  • 4 bell peppers
  • 1/4 red cabbage
  • 3 cloves garlic
  • 4 mushrooms
  • 1 package boneless skinless chicken
  • soy sauce
  • sesame teriyaki [optional: you can use whatever sauce you would like]
  • 1 cup rice
  • 1 tbsp rice vinegar
  • 1 tbsp sesame seeds

Directions

  • Put your rice in the rice cooker and get that ready to go
  • Once rice is done, toss some rice vinegar and sesame seeds in there and mix around, let it
  • Cut up all your veggies
So beautiful

So beautiful

  • Cut the chicken into thin strips on a different board if you are eating meat

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  • Put oil into a wok and throw some crushed or cut garlic in there. Then, add the vegetables to the wok. Pour soy sauce and any other sauces you would like to flavor the veggies
Still pretty

Still pretty

  • Once the vegetables are cooked and flavored to your desire, throw some oil and garlic in another smaller saucepan and heat it up. Then put the chicken strips into this pan and cook. This only takes 5 minutes max. Toss with soy sauce, teriyaki, and sesame seeds

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  • Once your chicken is done, assemble plates. Load the bottom with rice, top it with vegetables, and then some chicken (if you are eating chicken). It’s good to go!
My plate

My plate

Chris' plate

Chris’ plate

Again such an easy dish to make and such an easy dish to eat too! It’s delicious, nutritious, and filling. It also has beautiful colors if you use different peppers. Enjoy with whatever vegetable and seasoning you have. This is a great dish to stay hungry and fit! Cheers!

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Stir Fry Creations

Stir fry is one of my favorite dishes. It’s because there are endless possibilities. And it’s so easy to do. All you need is some veggies and a form of protein in your fridge–you can mix and match and throw things together that don’t seem normal. And that’s the beauty of it! If you have veggies, rice,  and/or noodles, you have no excuse for not home cooking. Let me share with you a dish I just recently prepared, with an attempt to make it as Asian as possible for Chris.

Alana’s Monday Stir Fry

  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Cook Time: 10 minutes 

Ingredients

  • a bunch of bok choy
  • 1/2 an onion
  • 2 large carrots
  • 1 yellow pepper
  • 1 case of Udon noodles 
  • 1/2 pound of wild-caught scallops
  • 1 case of tofu 
  • wok oil & soy sauce 
  • spices such as ground ginger, fresh garlic, pepper, salt, 5 spice, and garlic pepper 

Flower of the Bok Choy

Directions

1. Let’s tackle the boy choy first. Wash the bok choy, scrub out any dirt under cold water. Cut until the stem is almost gone.

2. Cut the rest of the vegetables: thinly slice the onions and carrots. Do proper thick slices of the yellow pepper.

Chopped beauties

3. Put the wok oil and soy sauce in the wok (or frying pan, whatever you have) and heat that baby up! Crush some garlic in there and let the smells get you.

4. Once it is heated, throw those veggies in there. As you are tossing them in the oil, put your spices in, whatever they may be. I put in lots of ginger, garlic, and pepper. Make sure you are constantly tossing the vegetables so that your spices get on it all.

Stir frying!

5. Cube the tofu, wash the scallops, and unwrap the udon noodles. Throw it all into the already cooking mixture. Again, make sure to keep stirring and tossing so that everything soaks up that flavor.

6. Cook to taste and decide when it’s ready! For me it took about 10 minutes, maybe not even that.

Plate of stir fryAnd there you have it, an easy 20-minute dish with tons of nutrient-filled vegetables and protein. PS- there are eggs in the picture, but I didn’t end up using them, but they are a great addition! Get creative. This is only my recipe, and it’s one of many stir-frys.

Cheers and Happy Cooking! 

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