Easy Wok Food!

[missjef]

Just bought a wok the other day! Having fun making basic stir fry's just with chicken/pork and i think sharwoods sauce's and some stir fry vegetable packs, but they taste a bit flavourless and just dont taste as nice as it does from the local chinese takeaway so does anyone have any good easy delicious food to cook up in a wok??
many thanks!
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[mccfluff]

if you've got a chinese supermarket near its worth going and stocking up on food/sauces its much cheaper.

[hammerman]

It's all a question of experimenting.

In your cupboard, you should be armed with a variety of dried herbs and spices along with white and red wine vinegar, honey, soy sauce, teriyaki sauce, golden syrup, worcester sauce, hoi sin sauce, curry pastes, creamed coconut, tin of coconut milk, olive oils, lemon and lime juice, tomatoe ketchup and probably a lot i've forgotten.

Keep things simple....today i did a gorgeous egg fried rice for lunch....

as much rice as is necessary
1/2 onion finely chopped
1/2 pepper finely chopped
sliced mushrooms
Garlic finely chopped (amount according to taste)
Ginger...finely shopped
2 eggs.
Soy sauce
Lime juice
Chilli (if required)

Boil rice and drain

Chop peppers, mushrooms and onions and fry off until golden in a wok.

Add rice, crack two eggs into rice, add garlic, chilli and ginger and stir vigorously on a high heat making sure the eggs are well stirred in.

Add a few squirts of soy sauce and stir-fry for a few minutes.

Of course you can add or take away anything you don't/do like. I often add slithers of pineapple too.

[China Doll]

Woks can be used for everything. I'm currently making spag bol in mine. All I can say is shed loads of garlic, lea and perins, basil, other various herbs I found and some birds eye chillies.

I use it to make chillies, curries, red thai curry..... loads of things. Rice dishes as already mentioned. Morrocan chicken, jerk chicken stew thing..... Just get experimenting.

[pastafreak]

Some basics you should have.....fresh ginger,garlic,bird rye chillies(red),fat green chillies.lemon grass,fresh coriander.Thai Sweet Chilli sauce.Oyster sauce,light and dark soy,spring onions,corn flour,Chinese rice wine,tinned bamboo shoots and water chesnuts,sesame oil,chilli bean sauce,Hoisin sauce,chicken stock. Don't try to get all this at once,do search out an asian grocers......you never know what you will find! Look for a basic chinese cookery book-try second hand shops.....and start experimenting!

[SRH]

Smoked paprika's great too - you can buy it in little red tins from supermarkets or online at Tesco, Sainsburys etc. It is sweet and smoky, giving that lovely Chinese restaurant taste.