Quick and Easy Chinese Greens

Name: Quick and Easy Chinese Greens (Choi Sum)
Yield: Serves 4 as part of a rice meal
Cuisine: China
Ingredients: 1 pound Chinese greens (choi sum), cut into 3-inch lengths and thickest stalks cut lengthwise in half; 2 teaspoons cornstarch, dissolved in; 3 scallions, cut into 1-inch lengths; ½ inch ginger, peeled and minced; 1 tablespoon peanut oil or vegetable oil; 1 tablespoon minced garlic; ¼ teaspoon sugar; 1 tablespoon cold water; ½ cup chicken stock or vegetarian stock, preferably unsalted, or water; 1 tablespoon oyster sauce; 1 tablespoon Chinese cooking wine or dry sherry; 1 tablespoon soy sauce

Choi Sum

Preparation info

Serves
4
as part of a rice meal

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Seductions of Rice

By Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid

Published 1998

About

Our friend Ruth, who is Chinese from Sabah in Malaysia and whose daughter, Hanna, was in kindergarten with our son Tashi, complains because the only food that Hanna likes is green vegetables. She especially loves stir-fried choi sum. “This is a problem?” we ask. “If only we had this problem with our kids!” Ruth smiles gently. She’s just rubbing it in.

But even Tashi, who is not the world’s most daring eater, enjoys stir-fried choi sum. He especially likes it if we don’