EASY RAINBOW VEGAN STIR-FRY

A quick and simple rainbow vegan stir-fry recipe, using only 6 cupboard/freezer ingredients and taking less than 15 minutes. Such a tasty and easy way to eat the rainbow!

Stir-fry bowls are one of my favourite go-to meals. They’re perfect for using up whatever food I have in my fridge. Or if there’s nothing in my fridge, one can still be thrown together using just cupboard and freezer ingredients. This recipe is time-friendly, budget-friendly, and lazy-friendly – the best kind of combination, in my opinion!

Time-saver Hack

My trick for super quick and easy stir-fry meals is to buy bags of mixed stir-fry veggies. It may be a bit of a cop-out. But let me tell you, the time it saves from having to chop up loads of different vegetables is so worth it.

If you do go for chopping up your own vegetables, these are my favourite veggies to combine -they’re fairly quick to chop up, so it won’t add too much extra time to the meal, and get in almost all of the colours of the rainbow:

• Red and yellow peppers
• Carrots
• Green beans
• Red cabbage
• Mushrooms

Of course, if you have other vegetables in your fridge that you want/need to use up, by all means chop away and swap them into the recipe. But after a long day, when all I want is a quick, low-effort meal, pre-chopped stir-fry mixes are a real time-saver.

Budget Hack

Now you may be thinking that pre-chopped bags of veggies can get expensive. But they definitely don’t have to be! In fact, I pretty much always buy my bags of stir-fry veg when they’re reduced, often for less than £1/bag. Once bought, I’ll stick the bag in the freezer. I like to stock up so that there’s always one on hand to whip up this rainbow stir-fry.

You can also buy frozen vegetables, which are often much cheaper than fresh, and get a variety of mixes to stock your freezer. Buy these when they’re on offer to save even more!

Easy Meal Hack

To round out my meal, I like to add in a couple more extras. A bag of @fullgreen.official cauliflower rice gets in even more vegetables and is a quick stand-in for rice. Feel free to swap in any other grains though: quinoa, rice (white, brown, black, red), rice noodles, etc. To make the meal more satiating I’ll also add a plant protein source, like chickpeas. Other beans would also work, or tofu/tempeh.

Once you’ve got your ingredients assembled, all this meal requires is throwing everything into a wok and cooking it up in a delicious sauce. The sauce I always come back to is just three ingredients in equal parts: tamari, tahini, and miso paste. I find it’s the perfect blend of savoury, salty, and creamy, with a hint of sweetness.

For optimal consistency, you can mix these ingredients in a small bowl before adding it to the wok. But full disclosure: I never do. I just add them separately into the wok and mix everything together until all of the veggies and chickpeas seem coated. It’s good enough for me!

The end result is a vibrantly colourful and absolutely delicious stir-fry bowl, packed full of nutrition, flavour, and plant goodness!

I hope you give this recipe a try. If you do let me know! Take a photo and tag me on Instagram @bitesbybekah. I’d love to connect with you and it always makes me so happy to see your creations!

FAST FIVE REASONS TO TRY: Easy Rainbow Vegan Stir-fry

1. Eating the rainbow is reason enough – gotta love a colourful bowl!
2. Takes less than 15 minutes to throw together.
3. Uses simple ingredients that are likely stocked in your cupboard/freezer.
4. Easily customisable – swap out the cauliflower rice for any other grain, the chickpeas for another protein, and use whatever veggies you have an on hand.
5. Filled with nourishing ingredients, and a great way to get a variety of vegetables into a meal.