BOSH! Rainbow stir-fry recipe

This dish is exactly what we mean when we say ‘eat the rainbow’.

Just look at all that colour! It’s a super-quick dish to cook so get everything ready before you start and you'll cut the time in half. Use an oil with a high smoke point, like rapeseed oil, so that it doesn’t burn. This delicious stir-fry contains edamame beans, noodles and cashew nuts, but to boost the protein even further add a little tofu to taste.

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Ingredients

• 1 red onion
• 5cm piece fresh ginger
• 1 red pepper
• 40g cavolo nero
• 50g Tenderstem broccoli
• 50g baby sweetcorn
• 1 carrot
• 50g frozen edamame beans
• 150g wholewheat noodles
• ½ tbsp rapeseed oil
• 1 tsp sesame oil
• 60g mangetout
• Salt and black pepper

For the sauce:

• 3 garlic cloves
• 3 limes
• 1–2 fresh red Thai chillies
• ½ tbsp soy sauce
• 1 tsp sesame oil
• 1½ tbsp rice wine vinegar
• 20g fresh coriander leaves

To serve:

• 25g cashews
• 4 radishes
• 1 spring onion
• 1 lime
• 10g fresh coriander leaves
• 1 tbsp mixed sesame seeds

You will need:

• Blender
• Fine grater or microplane
• Saucepan
• Wok

Method

1. First, make the sauce. Peel and roughly chop the garlic, halve the limes, rip the stems from the chillies. Then cut them in half lengthways and remove the seeds if you wish. Put the garlic cloves, soy sauce, sesame oil, rice wine vinegar, chillies and coriander leaves into the blender. Squeeze the lime juice into the blender and blitz to make a sauce. Taste, tweak and season to perfection with salt and pepper, then keep to one side.
2. Now, prep the components of the stir-fry. Peel and thinly slice the red onion and peel the ginger by scraping off the skin with a spoon, then grate. Trim, halve and core the red pepper, then thinly slice. Remove the tough stalks from the cavolo nero and thinly slice the leaves. Trim and quarter the Tenderstem broccoli lengthways. Halve the baby sweetcorn lengthways and peel the carrot and cut it into matchsticks. Cook the edamame following the packet instructions.
3. Trim and thinly slice the radishes and trim and thinly slice the spring onion. Cut the lime into wedges.
4. Now, prep the noodles. Cook the noodles following packet instructions and drain the noodles in a sieve, tip them back into the saucepan, pour over the sauce and toss to combine.
5. Time to make your stir-fry. Heat the rapeseed oil in the wok over a high heat and add the red onion, ginger, pepper and a pinch of salt and stir (or toss) for 1 minute. Add the broccoli and baby sweetcorn and stir for 1 minute. Add the cavolo nero, edamame and sesame oil and stir for 1 minute.
6. Add the carrot and mangetout and stir for 1 minute. Tip the cooked noodles into the pan and stir for 1 minute.
7. Plate up the stir-fry, sprinkle it with the cashews, radish, spring onion, coriander leaves and sesame seeds and serve immediately with the lime wedges.