I can't eat gluten. I can't eat eggs. So when I'm hungry and the kids are clamoring for food because I'm already running behind, I can just cook up some eggs and toast for the kids, but then I have nothing for myself to eat, or I can cook a whole meal for the family that I can also eat, but that usually takes time.
Recently, I was trying to figure out if I could make something really quickly, and then had this idea to make a beef and vegetable stir fry with rice noodles. I knew I could make it quickly, from start to finish, even with the meat and greenbeans still frozen and everything raw. I put on a timer and got to work.
Originally I thought it would take me 15 minutes to do it, but I kept readjusting the sauce to try to get the flavor right, because I was making it up on the fly, and I also needed to find the ingredients for the sauce and get them out of my stockpile, so it ended up taking me 22 minutes to make, start to finish.
Then I tried making it again, already knowing what to put in it, and despite needing to wash a cereal bowl for my daughter and find where the sugar went because the kids took it, and even with my kids opening the dishwasher while I was cooking which made me not be able to work at the counter, it still took me only 20 and a half minutes, so I feel comfortable saying this is a 20 minute recipe provided you have mise en place and don't have kids calling you to do other things while you're at it. And even with kids interrupting, it still is a fast recipe.
This meal is pretty cheap to make, providing you buy the minute steak on sale like I do, and it is gluten free providing you use gluten free soy sauce. It is also conveniently a meal in one, so need for a bunch of sides.
And did I mention that it tastes absolutely divine?
Easy 20 Minute Start to Finish Stir Fry Recipe- Gluten Free, Frugal
Ingredients:1 half pount package rice vermicelli noodles or 1 lb divided in half (there are two thicknesses of these- get the thinner kind since they soften just from soaking, no cooking required)
1/4 cup oil
2-3 carrots
2 peppers
3 cups frozen green beans
2 cups packed chopped swiss chard
1 package minute steaks (250 grams or half a pound)
6 tablespoons gluten free soy sauce
1/2 cup water
1 1/2 teaspoons vinegar (apple cider, white vinegar, or rice vinegar)
1/2 teaspoon garlic
1/2 teaspoon ginger
2 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon sesame oil
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