Saturday, 10 May 2014

Rainbow Bean Sprouts Stir-fry and Soy bean stir fry



Beans sprouts do not have any strong flavour and therefore can easily adopt to the other ingredients they are cooked with. The difficulty is that they are very tender vegetable and cannot stand up to much cooking. You can cook them only for a short while say 4 to 5 minutes. If overcooked they will become wilted and mushy.
Bean sprouts
Bean sprouts

Here I have attempted to use different coloured vegetable to give the dish an attractive look. These dark coloured vegetables are a storehouse of several phytonutrients.



                                       Recipe summary
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                            Rainbow Bean Sprouts Stir-fry
Preparation Time: 10 minutes

Cooking  Time: 10 minutes
Serves: 4

1.Wash and clean the bean 500 grams sprouts but do not remove the roots because lot of nutrition is there. 
Ingredients for Rainbow Bean Sprouts Stir-fry
Ingredients

2. Heat the wok and when ready add 2 tsp sesame oil and then 1 onion chopped, 2 tsp minced garlic, diced and 1 tsp minced ginger, diced and fry for 10 minutes or till the onion is well cooked.

3. Add all the other colourful ingredients: 50 grams each of green, orange, red, and yellow capsicum, julienned, 50 grams carrot julienne and cook for a minute in slow fire.
Rainbow Bean Sprouts Stir-fry

4. Add bean sprouts, 1/2 tsp salt and 1 tsp soy sauce and fry for about 2 minutes.
Serve hot with rice.

The rainbow bean sprout stir-fry can be consumed on its own as a snack or as a side dish for any meat preparations. It can also be served with rice


Rainbow Bean Sprouts Stir-fry is ready.

                                                                                  
Recipe follows in detail with pictures.

                     

                                     
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cooking  Time: 10 minutes
Serves: 4

Ingredients:

Main
500 grams bean sprouts, rinsed
Others
1 onion chopped
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp minced garlic, diced
1 tsp minced ginger, diced
50 grams each of green, orange, red, and yellow capsicum, jullioned
50 grams carrot julienne
2 tsp sesame oil
1 tsp soy sauce




Ingredients for Rainbow Bean Sprouts Stir-fry
Ingredients for Rainbow Bean Sprouts Stir-fry 
Preparation

Wash and clean the bean sprouts but do not remove the roots because lot of nutrition is there. Discard the rotten and wilted sprouts.



Method:
Heat the wok and when ready add the oil and then onion, garlic and ginger and fry for 10 minutes or till the onion is well cooked.

Add all the other colourful ingredients and cook for a minute in 
slow fire.


              Bean sprout is being cooked in a wok

Add bean sprouts, salt and soy sauce and fry for about 2 minutes.
Serve hot with rice.

Bean sprouts spoil quickly.  They do not refrigerate well. If you refrigerate, do not leave it for longer than a day. If blanched or lightly boiled it could be left in the fridge overnight and then used in the salad in the same way as the fresh sprouts.

The rainbow bean sprout stir-fry can be consumed on its own as a snack or as a side dish for any meat preparations. It can also be served with rice.
Rainbow bean sprout stir-fry mixed with rice
Rainbow Bean Sprout Stir-fry mixed with rice

This is about 4 servings of one cup each.


                               Soy Bean Sprouts Stir-fry

Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking times:10 minutes
Serves:4


Soy Bean Sprouts Stir-fry
Soy Bean Sprouts Stir-fry




Soy Bean Sprouts Stir-fry
Soy Bean Sprouts

Soy bean sprout is very similar to green bean (mung) sprout but it has a stronger taste than the latter. Here is a very simple recipe for soy bean sprout sir-fry.

Onion, leeks and garlic
Onion, leeks and garlic


Ingredients




Preparation

In most restaurants they will remove the head and root of the sprouts.This is because the sprout stems will look like noodles when stir-fried and therefore will blend well with noodle recipes. The head, the seed part, has a strong taste and the root is slightly hard.If you buy tender sprouts the roots will not be hard. But in the super-market shelf or in your refrigerator the sprouts will continue to grow and the roots may become harder.
If you like you can remove the head and the roots. I have not removed them because they are very nutritious. You can use the head and the root when making juice.

Method

1. Heat the oil in a large frying pan or a wok and add onions and fry in low heat for 5 minutes.
2. Add sliced garlic cloves and leeks and continue to fry for another 5 minutes.
3. Add the sprouts, fish sauce and the stock and cook covered for 10 minutes or until the stock evaporates.By this time the sprouts will be well cooked.
4. Turn off the heat and dish out the stir-fry.
5. Serve as a side dish  or with rice.
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Onion ans leeks are being sautéd in a wok.
Onion ans leeks are being sauteed in a wok.

Soy sprouts added to the wok
Soy sprouts added to the wok


Serves :4

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