stir-fry - use in sentences

Noun used with modifier

  • vegetable: Try adding dried fruit to your breakfast cereal, having salad for lunch, or a vegetable stir-fry for dinner.
  • chicken: Very good wine with oriental cooking - I enjoyed it last week-end with a simple Thai-inspired Chicken stir-fry.
  • prawn: We particularly like the hot prawn stir-fry, a crunchy prawn dish with curry leaves and onions.
  • pepper: Spoon the tofu and pepper stir-fry onto the plates and garnish the dish with the chopped fresh chives.

Object

  • chicken: Stir-fried chicken and prawns are the healthiest dishes you can opt for.
  • cabbage: Serve with noodles, rice, creamy mashed potatoes or stir-fried green cabbage with caraway seed.

Modifies a noun

  • dish: Southern cooking involves classic, light stir-fry dishes made from a vast array of ingredients.
  • vegetable: Cover with the stir-fry vegetables, pressing down well.
  • sauce: They are great served with rice or noodles, some even come complete with noodles, rice, pasta and stir-fry sauces.
  • recipe: Each wok comes with cooking instructions and some favorite stir-fry recipes.

Modifying Another Word

  • then: Just mix a bowl of rubbish with some mad caps, then stir-fry it with jabberwocky.

Preposition: in

  • oil: Remove chicken from marinade and stir-fry in oil in a wok for 2 minutes.

Preposition: for

  • minute: Add the rice, stir-fry for 2 minutes then pour in the cider or wine.
  • second: Add the chillies, half the ginger and the garlic and stir-fry for 30 seconds.

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