Stardew Valley #57: Stir Fry

Ingredients: Cave Carrot, Common Mushroom, Kale, Oil

Item Description: Julienned vegetables on a bed of rice.

For cave carrot i'll go with regular carrot, a fairly common mushroom, kale, and for the oil i'm gonna use sesame oil, which has a strong flavour and will contribute to the sauce for this stir fry. I've also got bamboo shoots for extra stir fry crunch, and i'll make a simple sauce from soy sauce, oyster sauce, vinegar and fresh ginger.

Oh and let's not forget the rice! as the description says, we've got a bed of rice which i've steamed already.

Here's a rare step I tend to forget mentioning... washing the vegetables! i typically give them a rinse, one easy way is to just pour some water in the bag, close it up in your hand and shake it around a bit... preferably over the sink though, in case the bag has holes...

I don't think I can or should julienne cut mushrooms, im just gonna slice them normal like.

We can and must julienne the carrots though! And grate some fresh ginger.

I've also cut the bamboo shoots a bit thinner.

And lastly, the kale is already chopped! What it's looking extremely full? don't worry itll shrink down a bit during cooking... i hope..

I already put a bit in the bottom of the pan, but seeing how much veg we got in here i'll add a bit more sesame oil.

Then the soy, oyster, and vinegar sauces. And come to think if it, its all quite a bitter and sour selection of vegetables, so im going to add a teaspoon of brown sugar as well. It's very wet, we're gonna have to fry off as much of the liquid as we can.

What did I tell you? The kale would shrink down! Trust the process! Now we can plate up on top of the rice.

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I'm happy with this! But I do make stir frys all the time, its one of my go-to quick dinners. And this ones quite a simple flavoured one and with mushrooms instead of meat... so its not exactly mind-blowing. But its nice and filling, strongly flavoured by the ginger and sesame making it sour and bitter, but not in a bad way.