The great thing about shopping at Aldi is that they have a large variety of different foods to offer at affordable prices with consistent quality. One of the problems of shopping at Aldi is that they have such a huge variety of items available, it is sometimes difficult to see everything they have to offer. The items are stocked closely together because the intent is not to try and market their brand to you, you already know that you’re buying their brand.
While my husband and I were shopping for groceries we came across two items we hadn’t seen before; Aldi’s Sweet & Sour Stir-Fry and their Szechuan Stir-Fry. We have actually cooked and like their Teriyaki Stir-fry that includes noodles. The Sweet & Sour Stir-Fry and Szechuan Stir-Fry do not include noodles, but we added rice to to make the meal complete.
The Sweet & Sour Stir-Fry includes sugar snap peas, carrots, pineapple, and red bell peppers, along with a sweet and sour sauce. The flavors work really well together, and it is ready in about ten minutes. For our meal we included a cup of rice and three chicken breasts to feed our family of four and a half and we had leftovers. From a nutrition stand-point the meal is good because it includes a lot of vegetables and some fruit (a few pineapple chunks). My daughters and I enjoy pineapple so I told them the next time we cook this meal we would add more pineapple.
I think that the key to the stir-fry is simmering the ingredients together in the sweet and sour sauce. Simmering allows all of the ingredients to bring out their full flavor. If adding additional pineapple to this I would definitely add during the first step of cooking the vegetables so that everything is fully heated before adding the sauce, allowing all of the flavors to combine. The meal is so simple your teenager could probably do this by themselves for a healthy dinner.
This meal also worked out to be a Meal for Less than $10.00 and it is something that we will eat again in the future. The stir-fry was $2.49; a cup a rice approximately $.50; and three chicken breasts $3.00 — a complete meal for $5.99. We’ll add this one as a favorite to our meal list, and continue looking for new ideas when we shop Aldi.