This Asian Vegetable Stir Fry recipe is packed with vegetables like broccoli, carrots, mushrooms, bell pepper and cabbage. The veggies are stir fried with a simple Asian-style sauce.
Asian Vegetable Stir Fry
We absolutely love this dish when we’re looking for something light and healthy for dinner. I serve it up with a little bit of grilled chicken for a complete meal. But if you’re vegetarian, or if you just enjoy eating a meatless meal once in a while, it’s totally delicious served over rice or Asian noodles too (use vegetable broth for vegetarian).
If you happen to be following the Weight Watchers WW program, there is a link to WW Points in the recipe card below.
Asian Vegetables:
There are a lot of Asian vegetables, and they’re not all in this dish. If you’d like to try swapping out a few of the vegetables in this recipe for something else, I do have a few suggestions. My advice to you is to visit your local Asian market, and you’ll find a lot of vegetables there that you won’t spot in a traditional grocery store.
Yardlong beans, also called asparagus beans, are great to add to a stir fry. Mustard greens and garlic chives are also delicious additions to an Asian Vegetable Stir Fry. Japanese eggplant is delicious too. Choy Sum is similar to Bok Choy and can be used in a stir fry. These would all be interesting additions, so give them a try!
Jasmine rice is my favorite rice to make for serving with this Asian Vegetable Stir Fry. It’s light and fluffy, and it has a good texture. It also cooks quickly- in about 15 minutes. Chinese style noodles (sold in your market’s International aisle) are easy to make, and they’re good when served with stir fry too.
If you’re a fan of stir fry recipes, you might also enjoy my Three Pea Stir Fry (a medley stir fry of three different kinds of peas). My Lemony Stir Fried Sugar Snap Peas are pretty delicious too!
Asian Style Recipes:
- Asian Chicken Salad
- Udon Noodles with Asian Vegetables and Peanut Sauce
- Asian Turkey Salad
- Slow Cooker Asian Braised Beef
- Seared Asian Tuna Steaks
- Asian Spiced Pork Tenderloin
Asian Vegetable Stir Fry
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon sesame oil
- 1 tablespoon water
- 1 cup broccoli florets
- ½ large red bell pepper, sliced into strips
- 1 medium garlic clove, minced
- 1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger
- ¾ cup julienned carrots
- 6 shiitake mushrooms, sliced into slivers
- ⅓ cup cashews
- 1 cup bok choy or Napa cabbage, shredded
- 3 tablespoons fat free chicken broth (can use vegetable broth)
- 3 tablespoons low sodium soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
Instructions
- In a large skillet or wok, combine oil, water, broccoli, bell pepper, garlic and ginger. Cook on medium heat for 1 minute. Add carrots, mushrooms, cashews and cabbage and stir fry for 2 minutes.
- Whisk together broth, soy sauce and cornstarch; add to vegetable mixture and stir fry for 2 minutes.
- Serve alone or over rice or noodles.
Notes
- This may be a side dish or a main dish served over noodles or rice.
- Reduce fat/calories by using less oil.
- If preparing this as a gluten free dish, be sure to use a brand of soy sauce that is designated as GF.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Would pineapple be good in this recipe
Sounds good to me!
Needs more flavor which is difficult with low sodium soy sauce. Suggest sprinkling baking sida on chicken after sliced let sit 10 min then rinse well. Chicken is more tender.
I love vegetable stir fries. This was great. I always add more veggies. I added onions, jalapeños (for a pop of heat), bean sprouts, water chestnuts, bamboo shoots and baby corn. Also I used shitake and baby bella mushrooms and red, yellow and orange bell pepper. This was great over rice. Thanks for nice stir fry.
Made using no mushrooms, fresh carrots, or cabbage; added some frozen mixed carrots and peas, and then everything else the same.
Cooked some seasoned frozen seitan, and mixed in with the sauce. Served with some lo me in noodles.
This was delicious! Only change I made was sub veggie broth and tahini in the first step instead of water and sesame oil. I don’t think this is 4 servings for me. 2 large, maybe 3 ?
Nice dish. We added diced chicken, onion, green pepper, water chestnuts, ground red pepper (just a little) and toasted sesame oil before serving, just a little. Also we are heavier on the garlic and ginger.
Delicious recipe and so easy to make.
We love making this and my kids absolutely enjoy it. Thanks for a great recipe. It’s a keeper.
Awesome stir fry recipe! Super easy to make and really delicious.