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I love stir-fried foods. The combination of flavors and textures is wonderful and all those vegetables make stir-fry meals healthy. Stir-frying a meal at home is easy and quick - all you need is a wok or a heavy frying pan, a little oil, some vegetables, tofu, pork, chicken or beef and a flavorful sauce.

If you're new to stir-frying, you'll need to keep a few things in mind.

Prepare all your ingredients before you start stir-frying your dish.
Cut all your foods into pieces that are similar in size (bite size is good).
Start with the foods that take longest to cook first, like meat, and finish with foods that cook quickly, like bean sprouts.

Don't fret if you don't have a wok; a heavy duty frying pan will do just fine. However, a typical wok is inexpensive and makes a nice addition to your kitchen.

You can use almost any combination of meats, seafood and fresh vegetables in your stir-fry, which is great for the budget because you can use foods that are on sale at the grocery (you can also find stir-fry meal kits - talk about easy). Or you can choose foods that are ready to toss into the wok, like precut carrot strips and broccoli pieces, chicken or beef strips, shrimp, bean sprouts, or sliced peppers and mushrooms, to save time.

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