Spaghetti Squash Stir Fry with Creamy Peanut Sauce | Oil Free, Gluten Free, Vegan

I love not following recipes, don’t you? This is just a crazy good experiment of mine inspired by Healthy is a Verb and Ambitious Kitchen.  Came out pretty bomb.  I have no idea what the exact measurements are, I was just throwing stuff together.  Feel it out, and make it with whatever veggies you like. With V day coming up, this is the perfect one to share with your hubby.  Or, save the rest for later gator! Have fun!

The Stir Fry

• 1/3 cup water, (keep a glass of water close by, this is used to prevent sticking to pan without added oil)
• 1/3 small onion, thinly sliced
• 1 garlic clove, grated finely using cheese grater or minced
• 1 small chunk of fresh ginger, also grated finely
• 1/3 head of broccoli with stem, chopped
• 2-3 red cabbage leaves, chiffonade
• 1/3 red bell pepper, thinly sliced
• 1/3 cup of mushrooms, rough chop
• 2 leaves bok choy, thinly sliced, stem and all!
• 1/2 roasted spaghetti squash, scraped
• 1/2 orange
• 1/2 lime
• 1/4 cup almonds, chopped (I totally forgot about these until after I took pic and ate some of it, makes a great crunch!)

1. If you haven’t roasted your squash yet, prehead oven to 400*F. Cut it in half the long way and place it open side down on a parchment lined baking sheet and bake for ~45 minutes or until soft
2. In a large frying pan over medium to high heat, heat the water, onion, garlic, and ginger, about 3-5 minutes, mixing often
3. Throw in the broccoli, cabbage, bell pepper, and mushrooms, let it get happy for another 2 minutes
4. Next comes the bok choy and mix another minute, feel free to add water if needed
5. Scrape out half of the spaghetti squash (keeping seeds- yum love squash seeds!) and mix that in
6. Mix in ~1/2 cup of peanut pinto sauce and mix until well combined
7. Peel orange and cut it into slices perpendicular to the way the sections go to make nice little orange pieces like in the picture. Makes for a delish orange, peanut, gingery kind of asian vibe
8. Mix in orange chunks, and top with lime to squeeze and crushed / chopped nuts. YUM!

Peanut Pinto Sauce

• ~1/2 cup dry pinto beans, soaked for 6 hours and boiled for ~30 minutes, [or feel free to use canned no salt added pinto beans, drained and rinsed (I like Eden’s brand the best, if using Eden’s, drain, but no need to rinse)] 
• ~1/4 cup of peanut butter (the kind with one ingredient only: Peanuts. if there are “hydrogenated oils” on the ingredients label, toss it)
• ~2 Tbsp maple syrup
• ~1 cup boiling water (from cooking beans)
• juice of ~1/2 lime*

Blend all ingredients in a high speed blender until smooth.  Not sure about the measurements but I think it would be hard to make this combo taste bad. Hope you’re hungry!

*I put lime or lemon juice on everything, for flavor, for peak iron absorption, and it makes me feel amazing!

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