Frozen Vegetable Stir Fry With Rice Noodles

Frozen stir fry veggies with rice noodles make easy, quick and delicious stir fry noodles perfect for a simple, vegetarian lunch or dinner!

Course Main Course, Side Dish

Cuisine American, Asian

Keyword frozen stir fry vegetables, rice noodles, stir fy, vegetable stir fry with noodles

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 18

Total Time 23

Servings

Calories 268kcal

Author PA

Ingredients

16 oz frozen stir fry vegetables
12 oz rice noodles I used gluten free rice spaghetti noodles
salt adjust to taste

for the noodles:

water as needed to boil the noodles
4 tablespoons butter
1 tablespoon sesame oil or use olive oil or peanut oil as you prefer
1 teaspoon garlic powder
½ teaspoon onion powder
1 tablespoon soy sauce

for the stir fry vegetables:

1 tablespoon sesame oil
½ cup stir fry sauce if you do not have stir fry sauce, use the following optional ingredients to make your own

Optional ingredients for stir fry sauce:

1 tablespoon sesame oil
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 tablespoon brown sugar optional
1 teaspoon fresh ginger minced or grated ginger, or use ginger powder
1 tablespoon fresh garlic minced may use 1 teaspoon garlic powder instead
1 tablespoon cornstarch optional

Instructions

To cook the noodles:

Cook the rice spaghetti noodles (or any other variety of rice noodles or any noodles of your choice) based on package instructions, to make al dente noodles. Make sure not to overcook the noodles, since al dente noodles which is boiled just enough makes the perfect noodles for this recipe.
I used rice spaghetti noodles made using rice and corn as the main ingredients and I cooked for 9 to 10 minutes time in boiling water (in medium to high heat) with a little salt and one tablespoon oil (sesame oil or olive oil or peanut oil preferred) to make the perfect rice spaghetti noodles.
Once the noodles is boiled, immediately drain the water carefully and transfer the noodles to a large frying pan.
Add the butter, garlic powder, onion powder and soy sauce, stir fry the noodles in low to medium heat for about 2 minutes.
Now the noodles is ready and you can keep it aside, while you work on making the stir fry vegetables!

To cook the frozen stir fry vegetables:

In a large sized frying pan or skillet, place the frozen stir fry vegetables.
Cook in low to medium heat until the ice melts and water evaporates (once the ice from frozen veggies melts, make sure to gently mix in between).
Once the water is all evaporated, add sesame oil and enough salt, mix well to combine with the veggies and stir fry the vegetables for about 3 to 4 minutes until the vegetables are lightly cooked but still crunchy in texture (stir in between!).
Once it is done, add the stir fry sauce, mix well with the stir fry vegetables to coat evenly and cook for another 2 to 3 minutes in low heat to make the best stir fry veggies using the frozen mix!
If you do not have homemade or store bought stir fry sauce, you can make the stir fry sauce using the optional ingredients mentioned above for making stir fry sauce.
To make an easy stir fry sauce quickly, combine the ingredients sesame oil, soy sauce, brown sugar (optional) in a mixing bowl.
Also add ginger and garlic, mix well to combine.
Add cornstarch also to the bowl, mix well to combine with the prepared sauce mixture. Make sure there is no lumps from the cornstarch added. If you do not want to use cornstarch, you may even skip the cornstarch, but make sure to all other ingredients other than brown sugar, which is also an optional ingredient.
Once you have combined them all in the mixing bowl, you have your homemade stir fry sauce which you can use in the recipe to complete cooking the stir fry vegetables. Follow the remaining instructions above to complete the preparation of stir fry vegetables using the stir fry sauce you made!
Once the stir fry vegetables is made, add the preapred rice noodles also to the frying pan, gently mix in to combine with the veggies and stir fry the noodles with the vegetables for another 2 to 3 minutes to make delicious stir fried noodles with vegetables.
However, this is optional, you can also just serve the noodles on a serving plate topped with prepared stir fry vegetables as a topping!
If you are making this at home for your family or guests, you can also serve the noodles and stir fry vegetables in separate serving plates, so anyone can just serve themselves the noodles and veggies as they like!

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