Stir-Fry with Hot-and-Sour Sauce

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 1996, America's Test Kitchen TV

We found that when cooking a stir-fry at home, a large preheated skillet was the trick to well-browned meat and vegetables.

SERVES 4

TIME 45 minutes

Stir-Fry with Hot-and-Sour Sauce

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

To perfect our stir-fry recipe so that the food was caramelized rather than pale and bland, we used a large nonstick skillet, 12 to 14 inches in diameter, so that there was plenty of surface area for the food to brown. But even with a wide ...

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