Vegetable Stir Fry 🍲 – never the same but always easy

Stop paying $12 per person (+30% tax & tip) for chicken & broccoli and make your own awesome stir-fry at home. I make a variation of this at least once a week and never get bored of it. When you make it at home, you can supercharge your stir fry with superfoods like lion's mane mushrooms, plus you skip all the sugar that restaurants put in their sauce.

3 Mushroom Stir-Fry (Shitake, Oyster, Lion's Mane)

Step 1: Select Your Ingredients

This is a great recipe to cook the night before you go grocery shopping to use up all the veggies that might otherwise go to waste. I haven't met a vegetable I couldn't stir fry yet.

This looks like a lot of stuff but actually you can skip anything you don't have or don't like. Think of this as a framework that you can put whatever you want into.

Here's everything you'll need for about 5 servings...

• 1/8 to 1/4 cup oil (I like olive oil, coconut oil, ghee, & avocado oil)

• 1 tablespoon Turmeric powder or 4" of fresh Turmeric, grated

• 1 tablespoon Ginger powder or 4" of fresh Ginger, peeled & grated

• 1 tablespoon Garlic powder or 8 cloves of garlic, minced or pressed

• 1 teaspoon Black Pepper

• (Optional) Additional fresh herbs you have around (Rosemary, Basil, Cilantro, Thyme, Sage, or Lemon Grass)

• (Optional) 1 Onion, 2 large Leeks, or 1 bunch of Green Onions, diced

• (Optional) 1/2 head of Celery or 1 pound Bok Choy, chopped

• (Optional) 1 pound of Root Vegetables, peeled and cut into small cubes (Carrot, Potato, Beet, Rutabaga, Turnip, Butternut Squash)

• 1-3 pounds of Hardy Vegetables, cut into bite-size (Cauliflower, Broccoli, Green Beans, Asparagus, Zucchini, Summer Squash, Brussel Sprouts)

• (Optional) 1/2-1 pound of Flavorful Vegetables (all Mushrooms, Peppers, Cilantro, Parsley)

• Bragg's Liquid Aminos, Tamari, Soy Sauce, or Salt

I like to serve this over Brown Rice with Cumin Seeds. (Just make Brown Rice however you normally do and add 1/2 teaspoon of Cumin Seeds per cup of Rice.)

If you're avoiding carbs, you can "rice" cauliflower, broccoli, or butternut squash in a food processor to serve this over. Another great option is to serve this over baked sweet potato and/or spinach.

Step 2: Prepare Yourself & Your Ingredients

1. The energy that you're carrying in your body is going to go into your food ⚡️⚡️⚡️Take a few minutes to do your favorite practice for clearing and refocusing your energy.

2. The energy of what's happening in the kitchen will go into the food. If you're feeling pissy or have an upset friend in the kitchen, you'll need to shift that or you'll taste it later. I recommend intentional silence or listening to mantra music while you cook. Here's a chill playlist and a party playlist that I often use while cooking.

3. Wash your hands with soap and hot water, clean under your nails if possible.

4. Tie back your hair or cover your head.

5. Wash the veggies that you aren't peeling. Mushrooms are the only vegetable you don't want to wash because they absorb a ton of water. You can brush the dirt off mushrooms with a damp towel.

6. Cut up your veggies as noted in the ingredient list In general, you want to mince spices and chop everything else up into bite-size pieces. Not sure how to cut up a certain vegetable? Just do an internet search and you'll figure it out.

Step 3 Stir Fry!

1. Heat up a large pan on medium heat. Add your Oil, Turmeric, Ginger, Garlic, and Black Pepper. Stir your spices occasionally with love. Cook for a few minutes to release all the health benefits of these spices into the oil.

2. Add the Onion/Leek and cook until a little translucent.

3. Add the Celery/Bok Choy and cook until they start to soften. Add some Bragg's/Tamari/Soy Sauce/Salt over the top.

4. If you're using Mushrooms, add them next. Cook until they release their water and decrease in size. Mushrooms are almost impossible to overcook.

5. If you're using Root Vegetables, add them now and cook them until they start to soften. Add some Bragg's/Tamari/Soy Sauce/Salt over the top.

6. Add your Hardy Vegetables and cook them until they are still firm but yummy. Add some Bragg's/Tamari/Soy Sauce/Salt over the top.

7. Add your Flavorful Vegetables. They will probably cook as soon as they hit the pan.

8. Taste your creation! Add Bragg's/Tamari/Soy Sauce/Salt until the flavors pop out.
   
   
   
   

Spices, Red Cabbage, Celery, Oyster Mushrooms, and Brag’s Liquid Aminos

Send me your feedback!

Please let me know what worked or what was confusing. If you're new to thinking about how your energy affects the food you prepare, let me know how experimenting with that goes.

If you're new to Turmeric,

Turmeric is an epic spice renowned for its anti-inflammatory effects. It may single-handedly be why there's virtually no Alzheimer's in India. I add Turmeric to almost every savory dish I cook. The only downside is that Turmeric stains everything it touches. I recommend cooking naked or wearing an apron to protect your clothes from Turmeric stains.