vegetarian stir fry + Budget Recipes (21)

Tofu soaks up the flavour of a tangy marinade of soy sauce and dry sherry and is then stir-fried with a crisp mixture of vegetables and cashew nuts and served with noodles.

A simple stir fried vegetables that can be served as a vegetarian main or as a side. The sauce uses lime juice, palm sugar and soy sauce.

Extremely easy and quick to make this kimchi and beansprout stir fry is a great side dish or light vegetarian meal.

If you are looking for a different way to cook eggplants this is a nice variation, I love the heat of it but you can tweak the chilli bean paste and fresh green chillies to your taste.

I always use this when I want to add a little colour to a meal as the four capsicum colours create a stunning presentation. It can be used as a main or a side dish.

Asian eggplant is the feature of this easy side dish, it is stir fried with ginger and soy. Serve with your favourite main dish and steamed rice.

A single serve vegetarian dish made from cucumbers, they are stir fried with Szechuan peppercorns and soy sauce then served with hot chilli oil.

Although suitable as a main I often use this as a side dish. The three types of mushrooms, pioppino, black and straw, are stir fried with tofu then joined by oyster sauce.

This is a quick and easy Chinese dish that combines tinned oyster mushrooms, tofu puffs, bamboo shoots and bean sprouts in a light sauce.

Full of textures this Chinese dish is a quick and easy vegetarian meal. It uses dried cloud ear mushrooms and water chestnuts in a simple soy based sauce.