Good Eating Monday: Cabbage Home Stir-Fry

Today's recipe is something I make often for myself:

 Cabbage Stir-fry. 

I used "home" in the title because it's home-made.

The beauty of stir-fry is it's like soup: you can add whatever you like that's on hand. It can be meatless or you can add meat. I often use sliced hot-dogs, but you can use anything you prefer.

Cabbage is the bulk of the recipe. One quarter wedge is what I use for Hubby and myself. For just me, I use just half a quarter wedge. 

A half wedge of cabbage with lots of other veggies mixed in should suffice for 4.

For the rice, I like to use the Minute Rice single serving cups of Jasmine Rice. It's the perfect amount.

The first photo is a veggie batch I made for myself for lunch and the next shot has some of my purple bush beans in the skillet with matchstick carrots. (They turn green when cooked.)

This recipe as is for about two servings, though actual quantities are really up to you.

Cabbage Home Stir-Fry

Base Ingredients:1/2 Tablespoon olive oil 

1 teaspoon sesame seed oil

1/2  cup carrot matchsticks

1 quarter wedge of white cabbage. sliced thin

1/4 to 1/2 red onion, sliced thin

Sesame seeds for a decorative finish

Other Options to Add In Quantities You Wish: 

Bell Pepper, chopped, any color

Yellow squash or Zucchini, sliced 

Sweet Peas or Chinese Pea Pods

Green beans

Sliced Mushrooms

Fresh spinach

Frozen peas

Fresh or frozen broccoli

Sweet potato, sliced in thin strips

Green Onions, minced

Fresh pineapple or canned pineapple chunks 

Any meat you like or have leftover

Fresh grated ginger 

Directions:

The secret of stir-frying is you cook stuff in the order from what takes longest to get tender to what gets tender quickly.

In skilled over medium high heat: add olive oil and sesame seed oil, then add your denser  vegetables like carrot matchsticks, sweet potato strips, beans or broccoli first.

Stir every 2 or 3 minutes to keep from burning.

When the denser veggies are starting to get tender, add the medium dense items: Cabbage, Meat , Chinese pea pods or sweet peas, etc.

Continue stirring until cabbage is wilted.

Now add the things that cook quickly: frozen peas, fresh spinach, pineapple chunks, green onions, mushrooms and bell pepper.

Continue stirring until everything is heated through. 

Turn off heat and cover while you microwave your Minute Rice cups and plate, then spoon your pretty stir-fry over each rice serving and top with a shake or two of sesame seeds. 

The sesame seed oil gives it a nice slightly nutty taste.

Put a bottle of low-sodium soy sauce on the table for those who want that.

(If you made a full pan of steam rice, 1/2 cup is one serving.)