On Your Way To Five A Day Stir-fry

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 2 tablespoons oil, for stir-frying (i prefer groundnut oil for stir-frying but any vegetable oil will do, not olive oil though)
• 400 g minced turkey or 400 g ground lamb
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 5 cm fresh ginger, finely shredded
• 1 red chili pepper, de-seeded and finely sliced (optional)
• 4 spring onions (green and parts)
• 1 carrot, grated
• 5 mushrooms (shitake, chestnut or closed cup)
• 3 tablespoons lime juice (fresh is best but i have used "jif" etc. and it was still good. you can substitute lemon juice for l)
• 3 tablespoons fish sauce
• 2 tablespoons oyster sauce
• 200 g savoy cabbage, shredded (discard the stalk and slice widthways into approximately half cm shreds)
• 175 g bean sprouts

Recipe

• 1 place oil in a wok or large frying pan over a high heat. add minced meat and stir fry until cooked (about five minutes.) it's important to keep the meat moving in the pan so that it cooks evenly and doesn't "clump" together or burn.
• 2 turn the heat down to medium and add the garlic, ginger and chilli (if using). stir-fry one minute.
• 3 add carrot, mushrooms and spring onions. as you stir-fry, add the lime juice, fish sauce, and oyster sauce. stir-fry about 1 minute.
• 4 add the savoy cabbage and stir fry for one to two minutes (cabbage should be slightly wilted but still crunchy).
• 5 add the bean sprouts and stir-fry briefly (to mix).
• 6 taste and add a little soy sauce if you think it needs more salt - remember that fish sauce and oyster sauce are both heavily salted condiments!
• 7 serve with egg or rice noodles.