Choy Sum with Garlic
Elevate Your Dining to Cloud 9
Welcome to Chopstick Heaven, where every meal becomes a celebration of flavor and elegance. Today, we’re creating a staple vegetable dish: Choy Sum with Garlic. This is one of the best ways to enjoy Chinese vegetables. This choy sum recipe takes less than 10 minutes to make and is simple, quick, and delicious, perfect for a weeknight dinner or a big family gathering. It will leave you—and your guests—feeling like you’ve dined on cloud nine.
Prep: 10 mins
Cook: 5 mins
Difficulty Level: Easy
Serves: 4 People
Ingredients
- 200 g of Choy Sum
- 2 Cloves of Garlic, Crushed and roughly chopped
- 4 Cloves of Garlic, Minced
- 2 tablespoon of Oil
- 2 tablespoons of water
- ½ teaspoon of Salt
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Instructions
1. Prepare the Choy Sum:
- Cut the Choy Sum in half, separating the leaves from the stems.
- Blanch the stems of the Choy Sum for 2 minutes in Boiling Water.
- The leaves do not need blanching, they will be cooked when fried. Blanching the leaves gives an overly wet and sloppy dish.
2. Prepare the Garlic:
- Take the Garlic and crush and roughly dice 2 cloves, these will be fried with the Choy Sum.
- Take the remaining 4 cloves of Garlic and dice them very finely, these will be used to produce the Garlic Sauce.
3. Fry the Choy Sum:
- Add a half a tablespoon of Oil to a wok on a high heat.
- Add the Crushed Garlic and the Choy Sum.
- Fry for 2-3 mins.
- Remove from the heat and put on a serving plate.
4. Make the Garlic Sauce:
- Add the rest of the Oil to the wok on a high heat.
- Add the Finely Diced Garlic.
- Fry for 30 seconds to a minute. Do not burn the Garlic.
- Add the Water and the Salt.
5. Finish and Serve:
Remove from heat and pour the Garlic Sauce over the Choy Sum.
Serve immediately using your Chopstick Heaven personalized chopsticks to complete the divine experience.
Serving Suggestions
Pair this Choi Sum with Garlic Sauce with dishes like Pork, Red Bean Curd, and Potato and Steamed Rice for a complete Chinese-inspired feast. It’s also delightful alongside a light soup like egg drop or hot and sour soup.
Pro Tips
- Don’t Burn the Garlic: At the high heat we are cooking, it is really easy to burn your Garlic. This won’t taste good!
- Don’t Blach the Leaves: Blaching the leaves makes the Choy Sum too limp and sloppy
- Swap the Salt: You can swap the salt out for Soy Sauce for a salty and umami-rich flavor.
A Touch of Chopstick Heaven
This Choy Sum with Garlic dish is a perfect and quick way to get a vegetable dish into your meal. With your personalized Chopstick Heaven chopsticks in hand, every bite becomes an indulgent experience. Treat yourself—and your loved ones—to this luxurious take on a beloved classic.
So, the next time you cook Choy Sum with Garlic, remember to reach for your Chopstick Heaven personalized chopsticks to make meal time heavenly and elevate your experience to Cloud9. Your friends will be impressed, and every meal will be a journey to the clouds.
Welcome to Chopstick Heaven—where we make mealtime truly heavenly.