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Simple, fast, colorful, and easy vegetable stir fry in a wok being tossed with a spider ladle.

Easy Stir Fry Vegetables Recipe

This healthy recipe goes by fast! Colorful veggies are tossed with a light stir fry sauce and added ginger to bring everything up a notch.
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Course: Entree, Side Dish
Cuisine: Asian, Chinese, Filipino
Keyword: 30 minutes or less, breakfast, easy, gluten-free option, healthy, quick, stir fry, vegan option, vegetables, veggie stir fry
Prep Time: 12 minutes
Cook Time: 12 minutes
Total Time: 24 minutes
Servings: 3 people

Equipment

  • wok or large braiser pan
  • wok spatula or long tongs

Ingredients

Vegetables

  • 1 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 2 garlic cloves minced
  • 2 shallots sliced about a half inch thick
  • 1 medium yellow sweet potato cubes
  • 3 Portabella mushrooms or Shitake; cut lengthwise and thinly
  • 2 red bell pepper lengthwise about a quarter inch thick
  • 3 medium carrots on a diagonal, about a quarter inch thick
  • 2 celery stalks on a diagonal, about a quarter inch thick
  • 3 tbsp ginger julienne (or grate the ginger if you don't like to bite into it)
  • 1 cup snap peas or snow peas

Stir Fry Sauce

  • 1½ tbsp soy sauce
  • 3 tbsp vegetable broth or chicken broth
  • ½ tbsp oyster sauce
  • 1 tbsp brown sugar
  • ½ tsp seasame oil
  • 1 tsp rice vinegar
  • salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

Make Stir Fry Sauce

  • Combine sauce ingredients in a bowl. Set aside.

Make Vegetable Stir Fry

  • Clean all the vegetables and be sure to throughly pat them dry. Cut the veggies.
  • Heat the wok or pan first (medium-high heat), then add the oil. Add the garlic and shallots. Ten seconds in the oil then move to the side.
    Add the potatoes.
  • Once the potatoes seem a little seared, finish stir frying them.
    Remove the potatoes, garlic, shallots and place in a bowl and set aside.
  • Add a little oil to the pan if needed. Then, add the mushrooms.
  • After one minute, add the carrots, peppers, celery, and ginger.
    Let them sit to "fry" for two minutes then toss around.
  • Add the stir fry sauce.
  • Add snap peas.
    Toss everything until the vegetables are almost fully cooked.
    Add back the potatoes, garlic, and shallots.
    Remove the pan from the heat immediately.
  • Sprinkle salt and pepper to taste.
    Enjoy and Serve!