Riesling with stir fry vegetables makes a great combination. Can you picture the scene, getting home late from work, tired and hungry but not really in the mood to cook? Last night was one of those nights. In the fridge there was half a red pepper, half a punnet of mushrooms, a carrot, a piece of celery, a couple of garlic shoots, an egg and a piece of barbecued pork loin. Given these ingredients I thought, ‘stir fry’. It is quick, easy and very tasty.
To make it even better I had chilled bottle of Fritz Willi Riesling (Mosel, German). Refreshingly crisp with floral aromas, citrus flavours and a mineral touch on the finish. The name comes from King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia, after who the winery is named. I am sure he would have been proud to have his name on this wine. Do you reckon they had stir fries in the early 19th Century in Prussia?
Total time required: 10 mins to prepare and 5 mins to cook.
Ingredients for two people:
- Vegetable Oil (I actually used the fat and gravy from a chicken that I baked in the oven a couple of days before. Always good to keep tasty left overs from roast meats)
- 1/2 red pepper
- 1 small carrot
- 10 button mushrooms
- 1 stick celery
- 3 garlic shoots
- Fresh black pepper
- Handfull bean sprouts
- 1 teaspoon Sesame Oil
- 1 teaspoon Soya Sauce
- Dried red chilli flakes (optional)
- 1 egg
Chop or slice ingredients into small pieces, particularly the carrots which are harder and take longer to cook through. Cut the pork into thin slices and leave to one side.
If you do not have a Wok use a deep saucepan. Get the oil nice and hot and add add all the vegetables, except the bean sprouts, stir to get them covered in oil and so that they do not stick or burn.
Add freshly ground black pepper and dried red chilly flakes (optional), then a splash of sesame oil and soya sauce (which has a salty flavour so I don’t usually add extra salt).
Add the bean sprouts and keep gently stirring.
By now the vegetables should be turning golden, with a nice sauce forming and lovely aromas of sesame and soya.
Now throw in the strips of pork to be heated through and crack an egg and mix it in until cooked.
Take it off the heat and serve.
Hard to beat for a quick, easy and tasty dinner for two. The combination of the stir fried flavours with the crisp aromatic Riesling is superb.
