Stir-fried pak choi with sesame sauce

Stir-fried pak choi with sesame sauce

Whether you grow your own or buy it ready to use, pak choi is a versatile and tasty veg not to be missed

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 4

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

Ready in 15 minutes

Method

  1. For the sauce, toast the sesame seeds in a dry frying-pan until they colour and smell fragrant. Crush to a paste with the sugar, garlic and soy sauce in a pestle and mortar or spice grinder. Add enough sesame oil to make a pourable sauce.
  2. Heat a little oil in a wok and fry the ginger and garlic, add the pak choi and stir-fry quickly until the stems are just tender. Tip onto a plate and drizzle with the sauce.

Per serving

219 kcalories, protein 4.1g, carbohydrate 7.4g, fat 19.4 g, saturated fat 2.7g, fibre 1.9g, salt 2.19 g

Recipe from olive magazine, November 2008.

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  • 26 May 2009

    Shelley's commented on this recipe

    Absolutely delicious ! Fantastic sauce on steamed broccoli too.

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  • 26 May 2009

    Shelley's rated this recipe

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    27 June 2009

    sue commented on this recipe

    What did I do wrong? Toasted seeds and spent 10 mins with a mortar & pestle, followed by a high power mini processor and not a single crushed or otherwise damaged sesame seed! Also the idea of "quickly" frying wedges of pak choi. Unless quick is meant to mean 15 mins. of stir frying? Recipe states ready in 15 mins, mine took nearly 40 mins from beginning to end. We ate it with a very lumpy mass of sesame seed. Oh and is 50g of seeds really right? It seems a huge amount for 4 smallish veg.

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  • 02 July 2009

    miss.moss rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    We halved the recipe to keep from overwhelming ourselves with so much greens, everything went well. Was hard to crush the seeds, but we just used a rough sauce. The sauce was great, can imagine using for all sorts of other vegetables if bok choy is not in season or findable. @sue -- you can actually eat the veg without cooking, so the "quickly frying" should be fine (altho my husband does prefer cooking to a mush also).

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  • 26 January 2012

    i-heart-cooking commented on this recipe

    Question: Ingredients lists states ".01 tbsp golden caster sugar" - surely this ".01 tbsp" is an error!! & instead what is meant is "1tbsp..." Confirm please anyone? Would like to try this recipe ASAP. Thanks!

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  • 08 March 2012

    JoWiltshire commented on this recipe

    To follow up on i-heart-cooking's comment, fortunately I still had the original magazine, and it definitely calls for 1 tbsp sugar, not 0.01 tbsp sugar.

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  • 28 December 2012

    Charlotte rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    This is absolutely delicious and I'm going to do it again.... however I also couldn't crush the sesame seeds with either a pestle and morter or grinder, so we just accepted the sauce was very thick and textured. I stir fried the bok choi, they didn't take too long to do 4-6 1/2s at a time. (I doubled the quantities for a dinner party). I served withthe slow-braised soy&five spice beef and followed with the spiced baked figs with ginger marcarpone

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 4

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

Ready in 15 minutes

Ingredients

SESAME SAUCE

  • 50g sesame seeds
  • .01 tbsp golden caster sugar
  • 1 garlic clove , crushed
  • 3 tbsp soy sauce
  • sesame oil
  • chilli oil to serve
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Per serving

219 kcalories, protein 4.1g, carbohydrate 7.4g, fat 19.4 g, saturated fat 2.7g, fibre 1.9g, salt 2.19 g

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