Lessons > How to Stir-Fry
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Lesson Overview
Stir-frying is an indispensable cooking technique because nearly any ingredient can be stir-fried. Once learned, stir-frying will provide you with the flexibility to build any dish to suit your tastes whether you’re craving black bean flavors, sweet and sour, ginger and garlic or flavors such as …
Click to expand...Lesson Objectives
At the end of this lesson you'll be able to:
- list the components of a stir-fry
- properly prepare ingredients for stir-frying
- define the term velveting
- velvet proteins by oil- or water-blanching them
- list various stir-frying tips
- explain why different components are added at different times to the wok
- implement the stir-fry technique
Course Syllabus
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START: Watch Lesson Platform Tour | |
1. | Introduction: How to Stir-Fry |
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2. | Complete Your Self Assessment |
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3. | Stir-Fry Components |
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4. | Preparing Ingredients for Stir-Frying |
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5. | What is Velveting? |
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6. | Tips for Successful Stir-Frying |
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7. | How to Stir-Fry |
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8. | Practice Activities & Recipes |
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9. | Lesson Quiz |
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Prerequisites & Related Lessons
Please consider these additional lessons to support your learning and discovery. Some of these lessons are prerequisites that may help contextualize what you are learning and form a baseline of knowledge and skill. Other lessons are related and may help you explore next steps or dive deeper on a learning topic.
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14 Videos
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9 Tasks
Task 1: Introduction: How to Stir-Fry
Task 2: Complete Your Self Assessment
Task 3: Stir-Fry Components
Task 4: Preparing Ingredients for Stir-Frying
Task 5: What is Velveting?
Task 6: Tips for Successful Stir-Frying
Task 7: How to Stir-Fry
Task 8: Practice Activities & Recipes
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