Veggie stir fries have been on a constant rotation at our house lately. They’re such a great way to use up our CSA box veggies in a really delicious, filling way. We use whatever grain we have cooked from dinner the night before (seriously, I think we’ve used EVERY type of grain) and sometimes we don’t even make them “Asian” inspired.
I ran out of soy sauce for about a week, but we kept making any-veggie fried rice by cooking everything in oil, then splashing in a couple tablespoons of our best balsamic vinegar and topping it with goat or blue cheese. Yum!
Spicy Peanut Any-Veggie Fried Rice
Ingredients
Spicy Peanut Stir Fry Sauce:
- 1/3 cup soy sauce (or coconut aminos, tamari)
- 1/4 cup rice vinegar or lime juice (or other light colored vinegar)
- 2 to 4 tbsp sriracha (or other Asian hot sauce, or 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes)
- 2 tbsp peanut butter (or other nut butter, tahini, or sesame oil)
- 2 tsp 2 teaspoons honey (or brown sugar, honey)
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 1- inch piece fresh ginger, minced
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 cup finely chopped onion (leek, shallot, scallions, any kind of onion)
- 2 to 3 dense vegetables, finely chopped (carrots, celery, asparagus, fennel, bell pepper, summer squash, zucchini, etc)
- 3 cups cooked grains (any kind of rice, farro, barley, quinoa, etc. preferably one-day old)
- 3 cups roughly chopped leafy greens (kale, Swiss chard, spinach, escarole, beet greens, bok choy, dandelion greens, etc)
- 2 large eggs
- Garnishes: more sriracha, sesame seeds, chopped peanuts, cilantro, chives, lime wedges
Instructions
- Whisk together the soy sauce, rice vinegar, sriracha, peanut butter, water, and honey in a small bowl. Set aside.
- Warm oil in a 12-inch nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add onion, dense vegetables, and 1 tablespoon water and stir frequently using a wooden spoon for 3 to 5 minutes, or until almost tender. Stir in the garlic and ginger and cook for another 30 seconds.
- Stir in the rice, greens, and peanut sauce and stir until everything is coated in sauce and the greens are wilted, 1 to 2 minutes.
- Push the rice to the side to create a large clearing in the skillet.. Crack the eggs into the skillet and use the wooden spoon to scramble rapidly. When the eggs are cooked, stir them into the rice.
- Serve immediately, garnished as desired.
Spicy Peanut Stir Fry Sauce:
- 1/3 cup soy sauce (or coconut aminos, tamari)
- 1/4 cup rice vinegar or lime juice (or other light colored vinegar)
- 2 to 4 tbsp sriracha (or other Asian hot sauce, or 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes)
- 2 tbsp peanut butter (or other nut butter, tahini, or sesame oil)
- 2 tsp 2 teaspoons honey (or brown sugar, honey)
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 1- inch piece fresh ginger, minced
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 cup finely chopped onion (leek, shallot, scallions, any kind of onion)
- 2 to 3 dense vegetables, finely chopped (carrots, celery, asparagus, fennel, bell pepper, summer squash, zucchini, etc)
- 3 cups cooked grains (any kind of rice, farro, barley, quinoa, etc. preferably one-day old)
- 3 cups roughly chopped leafy greens (kale, Swiss chard, spinach, escarole, beet greens, bok choy, dandelion greens, etc)
- 2 large eggs
- Garnishes: more sriracha, sesame seeds, chopped peanuts, cilantro, chives, lime wedges
Notes
- Firm, starchy vegetables like potatoes and winter squash won’t cook fast enough to use here.
- Cabbage is firm and takes longer to cook, so it counts as a “dense vegetable”, not as a leafy green!
- Feel free to add meat! Cook bacon or sausage first, before you do anything else, then cook the vegetables in the grease, instead of using olive oil.
- If you have any tender (or frozen) vegetables such as corn or peas, add those at the very end, when you add the rice.
- Hall’s Organics is delivering for free ($30 minimum) all over the peninsula. Their strawberries are out of this world, as is the rest of their produce.
- Pop-up farmer’s market at Stationaery in downtown Carmel every Wednesday and Saturday from 10:30am -1:30pm.
- Sunday farmer’s market at the mid-valley shopping center in Carmel Valley from 9am-1pm.
