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stir-fried

American  
[stur-frahyd] / ˈstɜrˌfraɪd /

adjective

  1. (of food) prepared by cooking quickly in a small amount of oil over high heat.

    stir-fried shrimp and snow peas.


Etymology

Origin of stir-fried

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

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There’s also crispy shrimp, which is a stir-fried shrimp dish with sweet chili sauce.

From Los Angeles Times

One idea is to introduce a new Thai dish made with lotus root, stir-fried mushroom and slow-cooked beef.

From Los Angeles Times

Stir-fried; used as a stuffing, filling, or basis of sauce; and even served as a fried snack, oncom is traditionally made by combining a bit of old oncom with something like soybean pulp and leaving it to ferment.

From Salon

The line included a woman who gingerly scooped stir-fried Korean glass noodles topped with minced crickets onto her plate, and a man who wouldn't stop grilling the young chef.

From BBC

Next to it was a plate of chilli crickets, the bug version of a beloved Singaporean dish - stir-fried mud crabs doused in a rich, sweet chilli sauce.

From BBC