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Ingredients
2 tablespoons neutral oil, like corn or canola
1 tablespoon minced garlic
4 to 6 heads baby bok choy, or ½ head large bok choy, leaves and stems separated and stems roughly chopped
10 small shiitake mushrooms, caps only, left whole
1 teaspoon sugar
½ cup or more chicken stock or water
2 tablespoons fish sauce
Nutritional analysis per serving (4 servings)
11 grams carbs; 1 milligram cholesterol; 58 calories; 1 gram fat; 3 grams fiber; 764 milligrams sodium; 4 grams protein; 5 grams sugar
Note: The information shown is Edamam’s estimate based on available ingredients and preparation. It should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice.
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Preparation
- Step 1
Put wok or large skillet over maximum heat, and add oil. When oil smokes, add garlic. Stir once, and add the bok choy. Cook for a minute or two until it just begins to brown. Then stir, and add shiitakes and sugar.
- Step 2
Cook, stirring occasionally, a minute or two, and add the chicken stock and fish sauce. Cook, stirring, until the bok choy is tender. Add a bit more stock or water if necessary -- the mixture should not dry out entirely. Serve immediately.
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Comments
Bok choy takes almost no time to cook, shiitakes take several minutes. Isn't this recipe going to give you either limp, overcooked greens or tough, undercooked mushrooms?
I added a couple of thin, skin-on fish filets to one side of the pan first thing, then let them cook while I proceeded in the other half of the pan as per the recipe, such that I had a one-dish meal. It was delicious. 10 small shiitakes is about 4 ounces, but for four servings, I'd recommend both more bok choy (I used 1/2 head of a big one) and more mushrooms.
I love bok choy with shiitakes and have made (and enjoyed) all the versions of bok choy in New York Times Cooking (generally adding shiitakes, if they weren't called for in the recipe), as well as various no-recipe versions of my own. Once I tried this version, however, I've never made it any other way.
Cooked mushrooms and garlic first. Then bok choy and sauce. Used 3/4 the amount of fish sauce and added a splash of soy sauce.
when and where does the teaspoon of sugar come into play?
Bok choy takes almost no time to cook, shiitakes take several minutes. Isn't this recipe going to give you either limp, overcooked greens or tough, undercooked mushrooms?