Healthy Meal Idea - Stir Fry

Thank you to a very special someone who made me walk the walk and not just talk the talk this weekend :)  Thanks to her, I have a brand new healthy recipe to share with all of you.

Ingredients (for two people)

• 1/2 red pepper
• 1 large carrot
• 1 large stalk of broccoli
• 2 handfuls of snap peas
• 4 leaves of red chard
• a few pieces of garlic
• Noodles
• Some type of protein (we used tofu)

Preparations

1. Chop up all the veggies into small pieces.  Cut diagonally for things like the carrots to provide more surface area.  By the way, I learned a new thing about broccoli this weekend.  Once you chop the broccoli bits off the stalk, you can strip the stalk of the fibery outer bits and eat the insides.  It tastes great!  Mix in the newly chopped veggies with the minced up garlic.
2. While you’re chopping the veggies, boil some water and dump in the noodles so they can start cooking.
3. Fry up the tofu (or protein of your choice) and then remove from the pan.  This should only take a minute or two but could vary depending on your choice of protein.
4. When the noodles are ready, remove them from the boiling water
5. By now all your veggies are chopped up, your tofu is fried and your noodles are out of water.  Mix everything up and dump into a fry pan with a bit of olive oil on the bottom.  Fry for a few minutes and season with whatever you want.  We used soy sauce and curry.
6. Fry for 2 or 3 minutes and you’re done!

Effort Required

Almost zero.  With two people working on this, and my contribution consisted mainly of chopping some veggies and making smart ass comments, the meal took less than 20 minutes to make.

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Oh, and for a truly healthy dinner, finish this up with some fresh strawberries for dessert, like we did!

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