Tasty Stir Fry Sauces?

MiniSquish

Hey, am eating alot of stir frys at the moment and usually make a sauce from chilli sauce (not sweet chilli) and soy mixed together, however am finding that a bit hot and boring at this stage. Does anyone have a low fat/low cal recipe for a tasty sauce? Thanks in advance.

jam_mac_jam

Mirin, soy sauce and a bit of seasame oil.
With beef a load of black pepper garlic and soy sauce and allow to marinate first.

Alopex

Do you have to stick with low fat?

Thai green/red with cocunut milk is great, just instead of rice/noodles add broccoli and other veg. Not low fat but it is low carb.

LimeFruitGum

Chop up some ginger in with your soy sauce (can get either gluten free or low-salt versions, if that is a factor for you)

You could try variations of lemon or lime juice with various herbs. Lime juice & chilli can be really tasty.

MiniSquish

Well I'm on a low fat diet at the moment and I'm nearing my target weight loss so I want to keep the fat low and the options healthy until then. I can use Reduced Fat Coconut Milk though. I had a stirfry this evening and just went with my regular chilli sauce and soy but I fried the veg and chicken in a little bit of sesame oil and that improved the flavour for me.

Animord

MiniSquish wrote: »

Well I'm on a low fat diet at the moment and I'm nearing my target weight loss so I want to keep the fat low and the options healthy until then. I can use Reduced Fat Coconut Milk though. I had a stirfry this evening and just went with my regular chilli sauce and soy but I fried the veg and chicken in a little bit of sesame oil and that improved the flavour for me.

I spent a while reading the backs of the coconut milk tins a few years ago and I am pretty certain that low fat coconut milk is just 'more watered down coconut milk' so if you use much of it you are better off just buying the real thing and watering it down yourself.

pinkypinky

Soy sauce, sesame oil and a spoonful of honey is lovely on any kind of pork. You don't need much of the honey at all.

i shove in a bunch of spices, like ginger cinnamon rosemary cardamom cumin and other stuff i've completely forgotten right now, and some lemon juice
maybe paprika
i don't like hot spices though so it's spicy but in a mild way

you could make a curry type stir fry with most of the above and turmeric. if you stir fry the food separately and stick the spices in a saucepan with some water, let them simmer and thicken, you can pour the nice curry sauce on top after cooking
if you want more of a kick to it put in some cayenne pepper and more ginger i think

i have to admit my all time favourite is the old el paso BBQ spice, but that's full of salt and sugar
still working on making a homemade bbq spice