Simple Choy Sum Stir Fry Recipe with tender-crisp green with garlicky oyster sauce. A perfect side dish that you can pair with any of your favourite meat, rice, or noodle dishes. Ready in 20 mins!
This recipe made with simple cupboard-friendly ingredients like soy sauce, oyster sauce, sesame oil, and garlic. What you must have is a large wok or frying pan!
What is Choy Sum?
Choy Sum is also known as Chinese Mustard Greens and Chinese flowering cabbage. It’s a dark green leafy vegetable very similar to bok choy, baby bok choy, Pak Choy, and Chinese Broccoli ( Kai Lan ). If you cannot find choy sum you can substitute with these vegetables.
You can find it in most UK supermarkets like Tesco, Asda, Morrisons, etc, it’s written as Choi Sum/Mustard leaves in the packaging.
Choy Sum Nutrition
Like most leafy green veggies, Choy Sum is high in fiber, vitamins, nutrients and low in calories and carbohydrates.
Choy Sum has a distinct mustard flavour and a bit bitter in taste but the overall taste is fresh, crisp, and sweet.
How to Make It Perfectly
Roughly chop the garlic cloves. Cut the chilli pepper into thin slices.
Remove the tough end of the choy sum, chop into large bite size pieces and cut the stem into halves lengthwise. Separate the stem and leaves.
To blanch the choy sum, bring the water to boil in a large pot , add a teaspoon of salt and a teaspoon of oil. Add the stem part and boil for 30-40 seconds. Strain it and dip into ice cold water. Drain and gently squeeze the water out. Repeat the process for leaves.
Heat the pan to medium heat, drizzle a tablespoon of oil and add the chopped garlic and stir fry for a few seconds then add the chilli peppers. Stir fry till the garlic turns into a crispy, light golden color. Remove from the pan and set aside.
In the remaining oil, add the blanched choy sum and pour the sauce mix in. Stir fry with high heat for a few seconds. Pour the corn flour and water mixture. Continue to stir fry high heat for 1 min. ( To get the crips and tender texture choy sum, please be aware not to overcook. )
Remove from heat and transfer to a serving plate. Topped with the fried garlic and chilli pepper. Delicious choy sum stir fry is ready. Served with hot steamed rice or stir fry noodle. Enjoy!
Here is more of our family’s favourite Asian Stir Fry Recipes, you can might like :
- Chicken & Mushroom Stir Fry
- Stir-Fried Udon Noodle ( Yaki Udon )
- Chicken and Rice Noodle Stir Fry
- Stir-Fry Prawns & Broccoli
- Beef and Broccoli
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 400 g Choy Sum ( or Bok choy/ Baby Bok Choy/ Pak Choy/ Kai Lan/ Tender Stem Broccoli )
- 10 cloves Garlic ( Add less or more garlic according to your taste )
- 2 Chilli pepper red/green
- ½ tsp Corn Starch + water 1 tbsp
- 1 tbsp Vegetable oil ( or any neutral flavoured vegetable oil )
Sauce
- 1 tbsp Light soy sauce
- 2 tbsp Oyster sauce ( use vegetarian oyster sauce for vegetarian and vegan )
- 1 tsp Sesame oil
Blanching
- 1 tsp Salt
- 1 tsp Oil
Instructions
- Roughly chop the garlic cloves. Cut the chilli pepper into thin slices.
- Remove the tough end of the choy sum, chop into large bite size pieces and cut the stem into halves lengthwise. Separate the stem and leaves.
- To blanch the choy sum, bring the water to boil in a large pot , add a teaspoon of salt and a teaspoon of oil. Add the stem part and boil for 30-40 seconds. Strain it and dip into ice cold water. Drain and gently squeeze the water out. Repeat the process for leaves.
- Heat the pan to medium heat, drizzle a tablespoon of oil and add the chopped garlic and stir fry for a few seconds then add the chilli peppers. Stir fry till the garlic turns into a crispy, light golden color. Remove from the pan and set aside.
- In the remaining oil, add the blanched choy sum and pour the sauce mix in. Stir fry with high heat for a few seconds. Pour the corn flour and water mixture. Continue to stir fry high heat for 1 min. ( To get the crips and tender texture choy sum, please be aware not to overcook. )
- Remove from heat and transfer to a serving plate.
- Topped with the fried garlic and chilli pepper.
- Delicious choy sum stir fry is ready. Enjoy!
- Served with hot steamed rice or stir fry noodle.
Nutrition
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