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Quick Ginger and Miso Stir-fry

Miso is a savoury paste made from fermented soya beans. It’s a good source of B vitamins and you can also make a hot drink from it by stirring a teaspoon into a mug of boiling water.

Serves: 2
Time to prepare: 20 mins
Time to cook: 10 mins
Dietary requirements: Dairy-free, Egg-free, Kosher, Vegan

Ingredients

  • 1 tsp miso paste dissolved in 2 tbsp boiling water
  • 1 tbsp tomato purée
  • 2½ cm root ginger (approx 30g)
  • 1 green pepper, chopped into matchsticks
  • 1 red pepper, chopped into matchsticks
  • ¼ white cabbage, cored and thinly sliced
  • 1 carrot, peeled and cut into matchsticks
  • 1 red chilli, finely chopped
  • 6 spring onions, finely chopped
  • 50g fresh or frozen green soya (edamame) beans
  • 50g cashews, roughly chopped
  • 2 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 1 tbsp toasted sesame oil
  • 2.8 litres/5 pints vegetable stock
  • 400g/14oz chopped onion
  • 1.25kg/2.5lb chopped carrot
  • 285g/10oz peanut butter
  • 5+ tbsp lemon juice
  • Salt and pepper, to taste
  • ½ onion, chopped
  • 1 tbsp sunflower oil
  • 1 carrot, chopped
  • 1 medium potato, chopped
  • 1 stick celery, diced
  • 50g broccoli, broken into small florets
  • 50g red lentils
  • 1 tsp miso
  • ½ pint/300ml vegetable stock
  • 200g tin chopped tomatoes
  • ½ tsp thyme
  • Salt and pepper
  • 1½ dsp olive oil
  • 200g/6oz mushrooms, finely sliced
  • 1–2 tbsp good quality soya sauce, eg shoyu or tamari
  • ½–1 level dsp miso (2 tsp), according to taste or yeast extract (such as Marmite) to taste
  • 1 level dsp wholemeal flour
  • Fresh or dried tarragon to taste

Instructions

  1. Mix the tomato purée into the warm miso.
  2. Grate the ginger coarsely, gather up the grated ginger and squeeze the juice into the miso mixture.
  3. Heat the vegetable oil and sesame oil in a large wok and stir fry the vegetables, beans and nuts for 5 minutes.
  4. Stir in the miso ginger mixture and cook for a further minute.
  5. Serve on a bed of rice or noodles.

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