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baby bok choy
I've enjoyed this many times in restaurants but never cooked it at home and want to cook it tonight....any recipes or suggestions would be very much appreciated. Thanks, Ellie |
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On Jul 10, 12:49*pm, wrote:
> I've enjoyed this many times in restaurants but never cooked it at home > and want to cook it tonight....any recipes or suggestions would be very > much appreciated. Wash it, leave them whole if they're small (trimming off the root end), or cut in 2" pieces if they're large and you feel like it. Slice 2 or 3 pieces of fresh ginger. Heat a wok or heavy pan very hot, add 1 or 2 TB of peanut oil (or some neutral oil, not olive), toss in the ginger slices for a few seconds as the oil continues to get really hot. Now add the bok choy and stir until all has a little sheen from the oil and the leaves begin to wilt. If the residual water from washing it is not still producing steam add a bit more-- maybe 1/4 cup. Pinch of salt, optional pinch of sugar, optional half pinch of msg. I always add the sugar, sometimes the msg. Remove the ginger slices and serve. Total cooking time in the neighborhood of 2 minutes. You can also just drop the bok choy in a big pot of boiling water for a minute, but then you don't get the delicate infusion of ginger flavor. We had a tasty variation in Shanghai once. (so-called baby bok choy are really a different plant from the larger, whiter variety. Their real name is Shanghai bok choy.) They were left whole and stir-fried/ steamed as describe above, then lined up on a platter. A row of whole, medium-sized shiitakes were arranged below them. The mushrooms had been stirred quickly in oil and then simmered until soft. -aem |
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>I've enjoyed this many times in restaurants but never cooked it at home >and want to cook it tonight....any recipes or suggestions would be very >much appreciated. I like slicing the bok choy lengthwise in two, dressing it with tamari, sesame oil, rice vinegar, and pepper, and setting it on a lightly greased pan under the broiler for five to seven minutes. Steve |
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> I've enjoyed this many times in restaurants but never cooked it at home > and want to cook it tonight....any recipes or suggestions would be very > much appreciated. Baby bok choy is essentially a dwarf variety of regular bok choy (not harvested prematurely), there are various versions of each... any bok choy recipe can be used with either... just don't over cook...bok choy is more about texture. Bok choy is really two sepasrate vegetables, the stalks and the leaves I like to eat the stalks raw with a dipping sauce and add the leaves to light soups. Epicurious has many recipes: http://www.epicurious.com/tools/sear...y%20bok%20choy |
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> wrote in message ... > > I've enjoyed this many times in restaurants but never cooked it at home > and want to cook it tonight....any recipes or suggestions would be very > much appreciated. > Thanks, > Ellie > Baby is also called shanghai cabbage (in some asian markets). It is good in a stir fry with fresh grated ginger, fresh garlic, shallots and something like a toasted or spicy sesame oil. |
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Boron wrote on Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:01:46 -0400:
>> I've enjoyed this many times in restaurants but never cooked >> it at home and want to cook it tonight....any recipes or >> suggestions would be very much appreciated. Thanks, Ellie > We're growing even smaller versions of it this year - dwarf > bok choy. It is picked at 2." > Lovely stuff. We stir fry it with garlic, a bit of rice wine > vinegar and a dash of soy sauce. It's good stuff in stir-fries, blanched in Chinese and Japanese cold noodle salads etc. One of the most unusual uses was in a recipe for Scotch Broth (for real!) -- James Silverton Potomac, Maryland Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not |
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On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:15:42 GMT, "James Silverton"
> wrote: > Boron wrote on Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:01:46 -0400: > >>> I've enjoyed this many times in restaurants but never cooked >>> it at home and want to cook it tonight....any recipes or >>> suggestions would be very much appreciated. Thanks, Ellie > >> We're growing even smaller versions of it this year - dwarf >> bok choy. It is picked at 2." > >> Lovely stuff. We stir fry it with garlic, a bit of rice wine >> vinegar and a dash of soy sauce. > >It's good stuff in stir-fries, blanched in Chinese and Japanese cold >noodle salads etc. One of the most unusual uses was in a recipe for >Scotch Broth (for real!) It is a nice "green" to add to soups. Think of escarole soup. Boron |
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