Stir-fry
Stir-fry, a personal favorite of mine, is today the most well known Chinese dish. As a rookie cook, stir-fry was the first dish I learned how to cook. It's a quick, healthy, and delicious recipe that has been around for centuries. One of the most original ways to cook and easiest. It has flexible ingredients and in my opinion the most fun dish to cook. Not because of what goes in it but the idea that is all improvising, unless you follow a recipe.
In my past experience with stir-fry, I feel I can say it is one of the easiest things to prepare and cook. When I cooked my first stir-fry dish I had just improvised on some basic ingredients and made my own kind of stir-fry. The concept of stir-fry is simple, to add a combination of meats and vegetables with a sauce and cook it. Traditionally stir-fry doesn't follow a script, it is a scrap dish. When I visited a cooking university when my ambition was to become a chef. I was taught stir-fry is a cooks choice dish that follows his/her's style. It has always been a simple technique to master because it was meant to fuel food shortages.
Stir-fry goes as far back as the Han Dynasty and was created to cook without using too much oil. As a food that can be made from scratch it fit the bill perfectly. It was only till about the 1800s did stir-fry make itself known in the U.S. Immigrants working on the railroad were the main contributors to introducing North Americans to Chinese cuisine. Soon it became widely accepted into the food world as a healthy and tasty dish.
Stir-fry is unlike any dish out there. It really doesn't follow a recipe and reflects the cookers style and taste. There are some specific stir-frys out there, but stir-fry itself is a improvising dish. Before it was categorized it was strictly a scrap recipe. That is why stir-fry is my favorite dish to cook. I would recommend it to anyone new to cooking, stir-fry makes a good, fast meal.