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stir-fry

stir-fry

4 2.1
A dish made by quickly frying small pieces of food in a little hot oil while stirring
  • noun
  • /ˈstɜrˌfraɪ/
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  • I'm thinking of making Thai basil stir fry chicken.
  • stir-fry dish
  • vegetable stir-fry
  • tofu stir-fry

So I love using this in fajitas or stir fries, pastas, things like that.

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Examples

  • We use this kale in our salads, in stir fries, we juice it, we make smoothies with it.

  • Sometimes if my stir fry is looking a little dry, I'll add a splash of chicken broth, and that takes care of it!

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  • Before she got an answer, Victoria came and sat down at the table with her bowl of stir-fry vegetables.

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  • Ben and I used to order from our favorite stir-fry place in town every Sunday night when we were newlyweds.

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  • Would you like some veggie stir-fry?

  • For dinner tonight we have a cheeky little stir fry, which is pretty much the easiest thing to cook in the world, so that's why I'm cooking it.

  • This vegan stir fry with cauliflower rice, Brussels, broccoli, carrots and tempeh.

  • I can be boiling pasta, simmering soup, and heating water for tea on the other three burners while I attend closely to a vegetable stir-fry on the front burner.

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  • I made green veggies and Cajun shrimp, beef stir fry, and then this is just chicken and veg and then we have hummus and lots of veggies to dip.

  • When served with rice, this no-fuss stir-fry makes a great family meal.

Synonyms

fried rice
vsstir-fry
11 1.0

Rice cooked in a hot pan with oil, vegetables, and eggs

focuses on small pieces of many foods cooked fast in hot oil
stir-fried rice
vsstir-fry
1 1.6

Rice quickly cooked in a little oil with vegetables or meat

is made with small pieces of varied foods using quick hot oil cooking
saute
vsstir-fry
5.0

A dish of small pieces of food quickly fried in a little oil or butter

requires constant movement of ingredients to cook them evenly
Chinese fried rice
vsstir-fry
1.0

A dish of cooked rice quickly fried with egg, green onions and meat or shrimp

is a general method for small pieces of any food not only rice

How Oily

deep-fried
21 1.7
to pan-fry
3 2.9
stir-fry
4 2.1
grilled
1 1.0

Surface Forms

stir-fry singular
stir-fries plural

Morphology

stir-fry = stir + fry (transparent) = stir + fry

The noun names the dish produced by the action 'stir' + 'fry'; the relation between components and meaning is direct.

Etymology

Stir-fry comes from the words stir and fry, named for a quick cooking method where small pieces of food are 'moved around' while they 'cook in oil' in a hot pan. So a stir-fry is the dish you get when food is cooked this fast way.