Article: STIR-FRY A ONE-PAN MEAL, ASIAN OR NOT.(AT HOME)

Stir-fries can be simple or sophisticated, Asian or not. Think of them as one-skillet meals, always a boon to cooks in a hurry and to those who hate to scrub pots and pans.

With these stir-fry recipes, one vessel does dinner, if you don't count the saucepan for cooking rice as a side dish. But the rice pan is a breeze to wash, barring any burned-on stuff.

Perish the thought. Rice should always be cooked at gentle temperatures after initial high heat, so that the grains remain intact and have time to absorb the liquid.

Note that a skillet is the recommended vessel for both recipes. It used to be trendy to own a wok, the curved-bottom pan with two ...

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