Veggie Medley

Total Time: 15 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 5
• 1 carrot
• 4 -5 mushrooms
• 1 red potatoes
• 1 head broccoli
• 1 stalk celery
• 1/2-3/4 yellow squash
• 1/2-3/4 zucchini
• 1/2 cup soy sauce
• 1/2-3/4 cup peanuts
• 1 tablespoon black pepper
• 1 pinch ginger powder (this stuff is potent)
• 1 teaspoon paprika
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder or 1 clove garlic, minced
• 1 -1 1/2 tablespoon brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 3 tablespoons olive oil

Recipe

• 1 first, chop up your vegetables.
• 2 make your veggie pieces about half bite size.
• 3 microwave the chopped potatoes for 2-3 minutes to get them started.
• 4 the potatoes take longer to cook than the other ingredients.
• 5 pour the oil into a large frying pan or wok.
• 6 let the oil warm up a bit before adding vegetables.
• 7 dump the vegetables and the peanuts into the pan.
• 8 begin cooking on low heat while you season the mixture.
• 9 add the soy sauce first, then the other spices.
• 10 after all the ingredients have been added, increase heat to medium and continue stirring as it cooks.
• 11 it should smell sweet as it gets closer to being done.
• 12 when everything is cooked thoroughly, the dish is done.
• 13 it will be very hot out of the pan, but cools off fast.
• 14 so, don't dilly-dally with it to the dinner table.
• 15 you can adjust the amounts of spice to taste as you get more comfortable with the recipe.
• 16 likewise, you may later want to expand the dish to include onions, peppers, etc.
• 17 this dish goes great with rice, as a side for a slab of meat, or as a meat stir fry with bits of chicken, beef, lamb, or liver, or as a stand alone on the potluck table.
• 18 it even makes carnivores like me want to dig in!