Stir-Fried Water Chestnuts, Snow Peas, Corn, and Ham

Name: Stir-Fried Water Chestnuts, Snow Peas, Corn, and Ham
Yield: Serves 2
Ingredients: 3 ounces snow peas (as small as possible); 2 tablespoons minced cilantro (coriander) leaves or 1 tablespoon minced dill; Salt and pepper; ⅓ cup water; 1 tablespoon vegetable oil; About 1½ ounces firm country-style dry-cured ham; 3 slim scallions (green onions); 1 ear of corn; 6 ounces Chinese water chestnuts

Preparation info

Serves
2

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Vegetables from Amaranth to Zucchini

By Elizabeth Schneider

Published 2001

About

All crunch, sugar, and color, this is an easy dish to make and to like. Serve the simple toss as a main course with scented rice. Or offer the lively mix to brighten grilled seafood or poultry, as you would salsa. What follows is for a duo. You can double or triple to suit your wok and the number of diners.

Ingredients

3 ounces snow peas (as small as possible)
6 ounces Chinese water chestnuts
3

Main course
Gluten-free

Method

Zip out snow pea “backbones” as needed (some don’t require this—try a few). Scrub and peel water chestnuts. Halve and slice—not too thin. Trim scallions and thin-slice on diagonal, separating dark and lighter parts. Shuck corn and cut kernels from cob. Cut ham into teeny dice (to make about ¼ cu