Home-style stir-fry is one of the most common cooking methods in Chinese cuisine. The following are some cooking tips for home cooking for reference:
1. Hot pot and cold oil: Before starting to cook, you should pour some oil into the pot and then heat the pot. Wait until the oil is hot before adding vegetables and other ingredients to the pot. This prevents the ingredients from absorbing oil prematurely, thus keeping the dish light.
2. Quick stir-fry: When stir-frying, use high heat to stir-fry quickly to maintain the freshness and texture of the ingredients. If you cook for too long, the ingredients will become hard and taste bad.
3. Cut the ingredients evenly: Cut the ingredients into small pieces of uniform size, which will help the ingredients to be heated evenly during the frying process and the degree of cookedness will be more consistent.
4. Fry the meat first: If the dish you are cooking contains meat, you should fry the meat first and then add vegetables and other other ingredients. This ensures that the meat is cooked thoroughly and tastes delicious.
5. Add a small amount of water: During the cooking process, you can add a small amount of water to reduce oil smoke and reduce the greasiness of the dishes.
6. Add seasonings: During the cooking process, you can add appropriate amounts of seasonings according to personal taste, such as salt, chicken essence, light soy sauce, cooking wine, etc. However, be careful to control the amount of seasonings to maintain the original flavor of the dishes.
7. Add starch water at the end: At the final stage of cooking, you can add an appropriate amount of starch water to increase the consistency and taste of the dish. The addition time of starch water should not be too early, otherwise it will affect the color and taste of the dishes.
I hope the above tips will help you cook delicious stir-fries at home.