Chinese Stir-Fried Greens
Ingredients:
Any green leafy vegetable (spinach, cabbage, nappa cabbage, kale, swiss chard, etc.) about 1 lb.
3-4 cloves garlichot red chile (optional)
oil
salt
MSG
How to Prepare:
- Chop the vegetable in large pices, wash in a large bowl, drain water.
- Cut garlic into large pieces.
- Cut red chile on diagonal, one or two slices is okay if the chile is very hot.
- Heat about 3 T. oil in wok until hot. Swirl the oil around with spatula.
- Add garlic and chile. Add about 1/2 t. salt.
- Stir briefly with spatula, don’t let garlic brown. Throw in the vegetables. Stir briefly.
- Add more salt to taste, probably another 1/4-1/2 teaspoon.
- Add about 1/4 teaspoon MSG. Stir some more.
- If it is a very watery vegetable like Spinach you won’t need to add any water. Other vegetables need some water.
- If it needs water add 1/4-1/2 cup. Tender, watery vegetables only need 1-2 minutes to cook, others like cabbage or kale may need up to 5 minutes, it also depends on how soft or crunchy you like them.
- Transfer to serving dish and eat immediately. Eat the garlic, too, it’s yummy.
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December 7th, 2007 at 4:03 am |
great recipe, sounds good, going to give this one and some of your other recipes a try.
December 12th, 2007 at 11:13 pm |
these were great! i love green leafy vegies.
December 22nd, 2007 at 2:53 am |
This was a great recipe. I ended up using peanut oil in the ingredients because I’ve read before that when doing stir fry you have to use an oil with a high smoke point. I think doing this also gives the food a nice flavor.
January 23rd, 2008 at 11:20 pm |
WoW! Great recipe. Wanna taste this new recipe asap. Thanks.