Wednesday, November 24, 2010

San Choy Bow

I made my own version of this recipe from the 'all recipes' website. Here's what I made:
This served 2 adults and 2 young children (but we were left wanting more - so I'd double it for 4 adults or older children)

25ml gf soy sauce
20ml Chinese rice wine
1/2 tsp sesame oil
1/2 tsp Chinese 5 spice powder
10ml rice bran oil
250g pork mince
1 tsp each ginger and garlic, minced
3/4 cup cooked rice vermicelli, chopped
3 button mushrooms. diced
1-2 shallots, finely sliced
100g water chestnuts, rinsed and chopped (water chestnuts are a grass not a nut)
6 iceberg lettuce cups
1 tsp sesame seeds, toasted (optional)

Combine soy, rice wine, sesame oil and five spice in a bowl
Heat oil in wok, add the mince and brown well
Add ginger, garlic, shallots and vegetables and stir fry 2-3 minutes
Add vermicelli, mix and then soy mixture and stir until heated through.
Spoon into lettuce cups, 2 per person and sprinkle with sesame seeds.

Extra thoughts:
I think you could add finely diced red capsicum to make this dish more colourful and vege-ful, plus you could probably substitute finely diced celery for the water chestnuts, but it would need to be cooked more. The flavour tasted a lot of the vinegar so if you wanted it more salty, change the ratio. You can also do half pork mince, half chicken mince.

4 comments:

  1. That looks really yummy. I will have to try this soon with my family.
    Allergy Mum - http://allergymum.blogspot.com/

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  2. Yummo! I love San Choy Bow. We also just do it with beef mince sometimes - not authentic, but easy and yummy.

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  3. Hello!

    I stalked you from Cybele Pascal's blog, since we are apparently living parallel lives on opposite sides of the world. I'm also a Libby (and we are a rare breed!) living in Florida and writing the blog "The Allergic Kid."

    So nice to "meet" you!

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  4. Thanks everyone.
    And hello to you too Libby - glad you found me (we are a rare breed aren't we?!) and it's always encouraging to hear that I am not alone. Looking forward to checking out your blog.

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