December 2, 2009: Vegetarian Hor Fun

pub-outings, Cindy together with I were left amongst a pile of vegie-box leftovers going one-time inward the refrigerator together with a serious postulate for something vaguely well for you lot for dinner. Luckily, vegetarian hor fun!

This is a pretty uncomplicated noodle stir-fry, that uses upwards any vegies you lot bring together with flavours them all amongst a wonderfully sugariness together with salty sauce. I recall I overdid the liquid - no thing how much cornflour I added, my sauce never actually thickened upwards into the gravy that it was meant to. Regardless, amongst the tofu puffs soaking upwards enough of the saucy goodness together with the crisp vegies reminding us that in that place are other ways to gear upwards vegies than deep-fried, this was a quick together with delicious meal. Thanks Pip!


Vegetarian Hor Fun

sauce:
2 cups vegie stock
1-2 tablespoons 'oyster' sauce
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 tablespoon rice vino (I used sherry!)
1 tablespoon sugar
1 tablespoon cornflour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sesame oil

500g rice noodles (we inappropriately used udon, but they worked simply fine)
chopped vegies (zucchini, carrot, capsicum, choy nub together with mushrooms)
12 fried tofu puffs, halved
2-3 tablespoons oil
1 teaspoon of minced ginger
3 garlic cloves, minced
3 sliced shallots
a pinch of chilli flakes (thanks to my 'everything tastes meliorate amongst chilli' attitude)

Mix the sauce ingredients together together with educate the noodles.

Heat a tablespoon of the stone oil inward your wok together with stir-fry the noodles for a infinitesimal or hence together with hence take away them from the wok together with laid them aside.

Heat the residuum of the stone oil together with hence stir-fry the ginger, garlic, shallots together with chilli for 30 seconds or so, until you lot showtime to sneeze from the ginger together with chilli fumes.

Throw inward the vegies together with the tofu together with stir-fry everything for v minutes or so, making certain all the vegies are getting simply about of the heat. Once everything is starting to larn tender, pour inward the sauce together with stir it through, simmering until it thickens upwards a bit.

You tin add together a dash to a greater extent than cornflour (premixed amongst a few tablespoons of water) hither if you lot postulate to brand the sauce a chip thicker.

Ladle the saucy vegies over the noodles together with garnish amongst a few cashews. Delightful!