Korean style Stir-Fry

Tasty, healthy, crunchy, fresh...simply packed full of flavour. It's quick and it's easy and it's healthy.

A recipe for 2 but if you have lots of friends over just throw in as much as your wok/frying pan will hold. Check the taste from time to time.

If you prefer beef simply substitute the tofu for steak.

Ingredients

100g pak choi chopped into strips - simply put it on its side and chop right to the base
150g Tofu (I love the wet block of tofu, you can cut it down into cubes and marinate in the soy sauce)
200g beansprouts
1/2 carrot or 1 small - sliced into long, thin crudites
6 tablespoons soy sauce
3 tablespoons of mirin but clear honey is fine too
1 tablespoon of veg or sunflower oil for the frying pan
2 garlic cloves, sliced, crushed, whatever
1 red chilli finely chopped
4 spring onions chopped into small rounds
handful of sesame seeds (nice toased)
handful of pine nuts

Serve either noodles (or rice)

Method

• Cut up the tofu into cubes or similar shapes, add to a bowl and pour over the soy sauce and mirin. Leave to marinate for a least an hour, turn the tofu from time to time to coat. 
• Once marinated remove the tofu from the soy & mirin sauce and on a very high heat in the veg oil and keep turning until all sides are brown and crispy looking. Keep the sauce to use with the other ingredients. Remove from the pan and set aside.
• At this point I threw my 3 minute egg noodles into a pan of boiling water.
• Add the spring onions, garlic and chilli and fry for a minute before throwing in the pak choi, beansprouts and pine nuts. Fry for a further 2 minutes then add the sauce you saved from the tofu. Taste it - do you want more soy sauce?
• Both stir-fry and noodles are ready. At this point you can add the noodles to the frying pan and stir them through. Add the tofu and sprinkle over the sesame seeds.
• Enjoy.

You will find that the pak choi, tofu, beansprouts and spring onions all come in bigger packs than the amounts suggested in this recipe SO if you want to make sure your fridge doesn't become clogged with food that gets wasted invite some friends over and add the entire contents of the packets or bunches etc. that you have to buy and simply double up on the soy sauce and mirin. Taste frequently and alter as necessary!