stir-fry
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At one industrial park, companies are developing robots that can stir-fry chicken and brew lattes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026
Notably, the outdoor kitchen, located on the other side of the indoor kitchen, is a feature the couple uses daily for their stir-fry recipes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2025
Once, in a fit of what I can only describe as kitchen-stage fright, I added rosemary to a stir-fry.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2025
While poking around, I found an essay from the Yale Daily News — an ode to the cafeteria’s surprisingly good tomato-egg stir-fry.
From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2025
Safer’s mom watches as Pigeon picks all the chicken out of his stir-fry and pushes it to one side of his plate.
From "Liar & Spy" by Rebecca Stead
For the less revolutionary among us, there is plenty more on the table: steamed buns, red meats, preserved vegetables, rice, seasonal stir-fries and delicately-flavoured seafood.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2025
Instead of growing the plant to maturity, you can grow flavorful baby greens, stalks and shoots to spice up stir-fries, salads, sandwiches and smoothies.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2023
All are united by a distinctive flavor profile that can stand on its own or add interest to salads, stir-fries, braises and more.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2023
A stream of stir-fries, soups and sweets appeared at my door just a few miles away; on my phone, a text: “Have you eaten?”
From New York Times ● May 14, 2023
When I walk in the door I can smell the onions frying and I know my dad is making one of his whatever’s-on-the-bottom-shelf-of-the-refrigerator stir-fries.
From "The Misfits" by James Howe
I like to enjoy my noods in soup form, but you can also follow this step-by-step process for stir-fried noodles.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
Traditional Kung Pao chicken calls for stir-fried chicken, so no, this recipe isn’t authentic in the slightest.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026
One idea is to introduce a new Thai dish made with lotus root, stir-fried mushroom and slow-cooked beef.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024
The line included a woman who gingerly scooped stir-fried Korean glass noodles topped with minced crickets onto her plate, and a man who wouldn't stop grilling the young chef.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2024
I’d rather come back as a sow bug, myself; or a stir-fried shrimp.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
He has a taste for street food, and appears on social media wearing a T-shirt and shorts while stir-frying with a wok, or performing 1980s Thai pop on the saxophone or piano.
From Barron's ● Feb. 8, 2026
In the experiments the researchers cooked chicken breast using five different methods: pan frying, stir-frying, deep-fat frying, boiling and air-frying, in a well-controlled research kitchen.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 26, 2024
Retail investor Helen Wu is not bashful talking about "stir-frying" - the practice of pumping up stocks with hot concepts.
From Reuters ● Nov. 1, 2023
Most of us think of just stir-frying or sautéing bok choy, gai lin and their many associates.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
During their time in Cuba, these Chinese laborers cooked with local rice options such as Valencian short-grain and long-grain white rice, along with other Cuban essential ingredients, using the Chinese method of stir-frying.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2021
