Upside Down Layered Stir Fry Recipe
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To give you a bit of background with how this recipe came about (click here you want to go straight to the recipe): Pick ‘n Pay asked me to try their MasterChef knife range, which you can currently get for free at Pick ‘n Pay Hyper through their shop, collect and get promotion. So I wanted to make a recipe using the knives, and try them for what they’re for! The MasterChef knives are high-quality and have a sleek, matte black professional finish. The blade is non-stick coated and the hollow ground blade edge makes slicing easier. As if that’s not enough, the weighted handle improves your balance when chopping and the ergonomic handle provides non-slip grip.
I made a Grapefruit and Sweet Piquanté Pepper Salsa with a Rump Steak last time. This time, I felt like something a bit different. I read about a layered stir fry and decided to make a version of my own.
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How to make the Upside Down Layered Stir Fry Recipe
I love a good stir fry, as it’s a great way to add many different vegetables to your dish. For this recipe, I decided to try something I’d never done before and make an ‘upside down stir fry’. This basically means that you assemble your dish in reverse in a bowl, and then place a flat plate upside down on top before gently turning your dish the right way around. Find the recipe below and try make yours at home!
Ingredients for the Upside Down Layered Stir Fry
1 cup Sushi Rice
500 gram Let’s Cook Braai Bacon (with Savoury, Rosemary and Zesty Lemon Sprinkle)
200 grams Rainbow Baby Carrots
Pack of 2 Baby Red Cabbages
150 grams Exotic Shimeji Mushrooms
60 grams Let’s Cook Crushed Garlic, Ginger & Chilli
250 ml Soy, Ginger & Stir fry Sauce
4 Eggs
Some French Chives for garnishing
How to Make the Upside Down Layered Stir Fry
Cook your sushi rice according to the packet.
Slice the braai bacon in pieces and pan fry with a little bit of olive oil in 15 mins.
You can of course also braai the bacon and slice it after, but I panfried the pieces for this recipe.Use scissors to cut the end of the mushroom stems and fry the mushrooms in a bit of oil in a pan.
Slice the baby red cabbages and peel and slice the rainbow carrots in half. Fry them in different pans to be able to layer your dish before serving.
Add the Shimeji Mushrooms to the braai bacon.
Add the Crushed Garlic, Ginger & Chilli to the mushroom and bacon mix and immediately drop the heat.
Add the Soy, Ginger & Stir fry Sauce next.
Meanwhile, fry four eggs in a separate pan.
Assembling the Upside Down Layered Stir Fry
Once all your components are stir fried to perfection, it is time to assemble your dish:
Slowly add the fried eggs upside down into a large serving bowl. Add the different layers in the following order:The sauce/meat/mushroom mix
The carrots
The cabbage
The rice
2. Smooth the rice out and compress it gently.
3. Place a flat plate upside down on top of the bowl and gently turn upside down.
4. Jiggle and tap the bowl a little bit, to make sure the components have loosened off the edges of the bowl, then remove the bowl and voilà, your Upside Down Layered Stir Fry is ready!
5. Enjoy! Please tag me on Instagram if you’ve made this recipe, I’d love to see it!
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About Shawn Godfrey
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Shawn Godfrey is an entrepreneur based in Cape Town, South Africa. After the Covid-19 lockdown saw his business in financial distress, cooking was the creative outlet that helped to keep him sane. To keep track of his recipes, and encourage friends and families to join him, he starts his instagram account The Roasted Dad.
Fast-forward to late 2021 - on a whim Shawn (encouraged by his wife Lianne) enters MasterChef South Africa. It is a crazy time of life: running a 200 people business and struggling to keep it profitable, two small children with a third on the way, and about to move into a new house. But when Shawn gets selected to be one of the 20 contestants participating in the fourth season of MasterChef South Africa, he decides to go all in. Leaving his 7-month-pregnant wife to look after their then three and one-year-old children, he battles it out and comes back home five weeks later with the trophy and a million rand prize money in his pocket.
It all started with an Instagram account, but The Roasted Dad is so much more now. Shawn has stayed his entrepreneurial self and whilst he hosts Private Dinner Parties and Cook-with-Me Demos, does Restaurant Take-Overs, he still runs the lighting company and several other businesses.
On his blog, Shawn shares Restaurant Reviews and Accommodation Reviews, and gives an insight into the wild and wonderful life he leads together with his wife Lianne, and their three children Aiden (6), Olivia (4) and Harvey (2).
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