These Healthy & Easy Stir Fry Recipes are perfect for busy nights when you’re craving takeout or need to clear out your vegetable crisper!
The Secret to a Great-Tasting Stir Fry
Want your stir fries to taste just like the ones at your favourite restaurant? Use a wok instead of a traditional skillet or frying pan!
There’s a reason why restaurant chefs use woks to make stir fries. They retain and equally distribute heat so everything cooks quickly and evenly. You can also fit more food in them which is perfect if you’re making a large batch or meal prepping! You also don’t need to use as much oil when you’re cooking in a wok, so your homemade stir fry will be even healthier.
Healthy Stir Fry Recipes
Stir fry recipes are a great choice when you’re trying eat healthy or need a quick weeknight meal. They’re super easy to make – basically all you have to do is dump a bunch of veggies and protein into a frying pan or wok and go to town!
If you want to make a stir fry, you really just have to go with whatever ingredients you’re craving or look at what you have on hand. With most stir fry recipes, you can make modifications or swap in certain ingredients for others, so they’re great for using up leftovers!
How to make an easy stir fry
Here’s how to make stir fry:
- Choose a protein. While I’ve included recipes for chicken, beef, shrimp and vegetarian stir fries, you can use pretty much any protein source you’d like! Even ground turkey makes a delicious stir fry.
- Prepare your ingredients beforehand. Since a stir fry cooks so quickly, you should have all your ingredients prepped ahead of time so you can throw them in as required. You can even slice, chop, or mince your vegetables and aromatics a few days before you go to cook (like I suggest in Dinner Prep Pro) to make weeknight dinners a breeze.
- Make a stir fry sauce. This doesn’t need to be complicated or expensive. A lot of great stir fry sauces are made from pantry staples. I really like using this 2-ingredient sauce—it couldn’t be easier!
- Add ingredients in the correct order. To prevent any burning, it’s important to add ingredients based on how long it takes for them to cook because stir fries cook on a high heat.
- Thicken your stir fry sauce. If your recipe calls for it, you can thicken your sauce by making a cornstarch slurry. Simply whisk some water with cornstarch and pour it in just as everything’s finished cooking.
Chicken Recipes
Got some chicken breasts in the freezer? Dice them up and all them to any of these delicious stir fries. Whether you’re looking for a copycat chicken chow mein recipe or cheap and easy ramen stir fry, these recipes have you covered!
Beef Recipes
These beef stir fry recipes are great if you want something different! They’re packed with flavour and are easy to make, too.
Shrimp Recipes
Shrimp’s speedy cooking makes it a perfect pairing for a stir fry. These dinners come together in no time and taste amazing!
Vegetarian & Vegan Recipes
You can make a fantastic stir fry with plant-based proteins! Try these vegetarian and vegan recipes that are jam-packed with tasty veggies, or tofu.
Frequently Asked Questions
You can serve your stir fry with brown or white rice, cauliflower rice, noodles or quinoa. If you want a low-carb meal, you can just eat the stir fry on its own.
All these recipes are super healthy. They’re made with fresh veggies and protein. Plus, they all use homemade sauces that are free of preservatives, so they’re a lot healthier than your typical takeout stir fry.
You can definitely use frozen vegetables to make these healthy stir fries. I prefer fresh veggies, but frozen will work if they’re all you have on hand.
These stir fries are all super easy to make, but you can cut down on prep time even further with just a bit of extra work. You can make the stir fry sauce and store it in a mason jar in the fridge for up to a week, cut up the vegetables a few days in advance and store them in glass bowls, and even cut up and marinade the protein if need be.
I prefer using a wok to make stir fry, but if you don’t have one, a skillet or fry pan will work too.
Meal Prep Tools
- If you want to make the best tasting stir fries, pick up a wok!
- Grab some glass meal prep bowls to pack up your weekly lunches.
- A rice cooker is invaluable for saving time, and it cooks other grains, too!
- Meal prep with your freezer! Butcher Box, conveniently delivers a variety of meats to your door frozen.
- Freeze and refrigerate leftovers in round glass microwave-safe bowls with lids.
- **Get my full list of tools here**
Share With Me!
Did you make this recipe or want to share your thoughts? Make sure to leave your review below and tag me on Instagram #thegirlonbloor so I can check it out!