It’s only Tuesday, really? Oh well, this week is feeling like a long blur. After all the holidays, fun and days off – these 5 days weeks are tough! I’m still using up plenty of leftovers from Saturday, Stacey brought over two huge containers of fresh sprouts, plus I had a ton in my fridge already. So I’ve been packing them into my smoothies and lunch salads as much as I can before they go bad. And I gotta say they’re really good in smoothies. I also had a container of chopped pineapple chunks left that I decided to try in a stir fry sauce this time inspired by the raw recipe we did.
Pineapple Stir Fry Sauce
- 1 cup chopped pineapple chunks
- 1/4 cup tamari
- 2 tbsp. toasted sesame oil
- 2 tbsp. raw honey
- 2 tbsp. lemon juice
- 1 tbsp. onion powder
- 2 tbsp. fresh grated ginger
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1/4 cup water, as needed
Blend all ingredients in a high speed blender and pour into a wok with stir fry ingredients and cook over medium high heat for 10 minutes or to desired texture.
I chopped up Lightlife Organic Flax Tempeh that I picked up on my last trip to Whole Foods, it’s a nice change from traditional tempeh giving it more texture. It’s also a splurge for me since I usually get the cheaper organic tempeh from Trader Joe’s, living large this week!
I stir fried it with chopped cabbage, snow peas, celery and zucchini in a little toasted sesame oil for about 5 minutes.
Then added the sauce and stir fried for another 10 minutes.
And dinner was ready.
The sauce was wonderful – tangy, sweet, nice ginger flavor and a little spicy. Pineapples work well pureed into the stir fry sauce too. And this sauce could be a raw dressing. The pineapple core holds a lot of vitamins and fiber, but is impossible to eat raw. With this sauce, I like that I can throw chunks from the core into the Vita-Mix to be pureed with the rest of the sauce to get those benefits.
I’ve never thought about adding sprouts to my smoothies! That’s a good idea!
I really like the idea of the pineapple stir fry—I love that tangy sweet flavor, but have only tried to reach it with oranges!
I’ll have to throw some sprouts into my next smoothie—that sounds great, and I’m all about sneaking them in whenever I can :)
Pineapple is great in the sauce, but if you’re putting pineapple core chunks in, it’ll probably need to be blended a little longer for a smooth texture. :-)
Smoothies are great for sneaking in more veggies, the raw instructor even recommended saving broccoli stalk chunks, pineapple cores and squash scraps to add to smoothies.
Can I seriously come to your house and eat the things you make ; p it looks soooooo good always! I would love to eat all your yummy meals!!!
Mmmmmmm tempeh, I need to buy some stat!
Oh my wii fit board will continue to sit, lol, it took us 2 years to open the rockband for the wii that I bought, crazy, so Im sure this thing will not be used anytime soon ; )
Thanks! :-) Lately I’ve been preferring tempeh over tofu because of the better flavor and texture and it’s so easy to cook.
I want to use my Wii Fit more, but knowing it’s not as good of a workout as what I normally do, it hasn’t been a priority. I would like to try the yoga more with it to hopefully improve my skills before joining a real yoga class. :-P
One of my favorite things about the Vita…no wasteage! Pineapple is one of my favorite flavors for stir-fry! I think I’ll save this recipe until I’m not all raw though so I can stir fry those veggies!!
Totally agreed on not wasting veggies and the Vita is great for sneaking in more veggies. This sauce could go raw too, maybe marinade raw veggies in it for a day or two for a raw stirred, not fried, dish. :-)
It’s so funny you commented on my blog today Christine. I was just thinking of you yeterday, because we had salad club at work and I had this amazing salad with tons of veggies and fruits, and I thought to myself “Christine would totally love this!”
Happy New year to you! I’m way behind on reading my favorite blogs
Jennifer
I’m a firm believer that pineapple belongs on everrrryyyyything! <3 this looks fantastic!