Broccoli with Garlic, Gai Lan with Ginger Sauce, and Morning Glory with Shrimp Paste and Chilis – we’ll be using these three dishes to illustrate three flavor profiles that you can apply to almost any vegetable.
Stir-fried greens are an important part of any Chinese meal, and are a quick and easy thing to whip up as a side dish. When learning how to cook these, it’s best to think in terms of ‘technique’ and ‘flavor profile’. If you guys like this sort of thing, let us know and we can do another video one day with three more flavor profiles.
As always, the detailed recipes and a discussion on other vegetables/flavor profiles are over here on /r/cooking:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/comments/6wqmkd/recipes_how_to_stirfry_basically_any_vegetable/
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Just cut the stems thin. They’re very nice.
Is the shrimp paste you’re using similar to the Vietnamese mắm tôm or mắm tép?
MSG give me nightmares
You throw away the gai-lan stems? What kind of Chinese person are you?!? My grandmother would smack my knuckles with the wok chang for wasting food! Peel the woody skin, split them in half and cook those suckers up! Toss them in first to give them a little head start blanching before you put in the rest. You probably throw away the broccoli stems too, huh? Grandma would be disappointed!
It’s kangkung not morning glory
I really like the information contained in this video.
. My only question is what is a tasty alternative to morning glory?
it’s blasphemy to throw away the Gailan stems!… they are are the best part…! it’s so good when it’s stir-fried it so it’s crispy on the outside but cooked just right inside with vegetable juices
as soon as you said msg, i knew that you care very little for people
Love your videos! Quick question: do these veggies keep over the week if I wanted to cook a bunch for meal prep lunches? I notice that dishes with a corn starch slurry often are watery the next day. How about these dishes?
super thumbs up, i’m from the philippines and vegi is my second best superfood to me, because of they’ve make you healthy inside and outside.
Cah kangkung?
Awesome video
thanks
going to Chinatown on Christmas to find and make these dishes..
one more thing
sorry…
ugh
it’s Vegetable!!!
not Veg!
that abbreviation makes my skin crawl
(label be as some random nutter, thats fine)
What the hell is “morning glory”?
Good info but? Who adds MSG just because? It’s a flavor enhancer If your making great food why even think about adding this poison?
arent that morning glory illegals in US? if not im definitely gonna export that into US ffs
Or for easy cooking use garlic and oyster sauce. Love my brocolli and kai lan!!!
Msg!
Seem so delicious… love my co-asian 🙂
A sprinkle of MSG – what have you read about the effect of MSG – there is already too much pollution’s in the current food chains do not add more.
PLEASE NO MSG … NOT GOOD AT ALL.
msg, that is so bad ….
Bringing a Chinese face into a video brings the “i am gonna get ripped off now” emotion
Can I ask which of your recipes you would use for 1) Cabbage, and 2) spring greens please.
What I have been cooking for my American boyfriend in Guangzhou for the last 4 years… Just wanna cry real hard
love your videos! traditional chinese cooking has a special place in my heart. thank you!
There is no need for the preliminary cocking. Some of the nutrients will be lost. Instead, during stir fry, add in some water, cap it for a few seconds and the vege is done. There is also no need for corn starch and msg. Just a bit of salt will do, at most some soya sauce.
I didn’t know veggies need to be blanched. Is this a version for western viewers? Or simply Cantonese version? I’m from Sichuan so I don’t see corn starch and sugar used in sautéed veggies.
What i find funny and confusing how everyone talks about smoking hot and high heat when stir frying… and i don’t want to get into the cr*p that some telling people to stir-fry meat instead of propeply deep frying it or burning on flaxseed oil on your nice and clean raw iron/steel pan/wok… :SIGH: Now the thing, while every time they put in garlic it doesn’t even fry. If you put minced garlic into hot wok with some oil, at least the smaller bits would immediately turn brown and fry up… Smokin’ hot right?! Then people fry broccoli over high heat for 2 mins or more without blanching it and guess what?! With minced garlic… on high heat… ohh you need at least a 50k BTU wok burner… right?! Turning the heat off under a smoking hot wok would still burn the garlic every time i tried it. So really whats the myth?! Either fake videos with fake bs about “smoking hot woks” or you don’t even need all that high heat. The last dish in the video seems almost legit but the heat still seems super low. After wasting some food over a 2 week period i can do it but these online vids seem inaccurate… even on weak gas burners…
NO MSG OR SUGAR FOR ME.
I WANT TO LIVE, I DON’T WANT TO DIE!
Garlic and ginger with morning Glory is my favorite!
Why always boil the veggies first before stir fry?
Why corn-starch
can you make a video of chives?,thanks!
空心菜先煮再炒，吃起来不会太软吗
NO MSG please ………….
NO MSG!!! POISON!
This video is excellent, thank you very much for being such an informative channel. I am new to stir fry though and I have a few questions that I hope I can get some help on from you guys.
1. How true is the claim that you cannot perform a tasty or good stir-fry on a Western stovetop (especially electric). I have an electric stovetop and I recently got a cast iron wok but I’m still unsure of the technique to use because I think I am limited by my stovetop capabilities.
2. Related to the first question, but should I really get my wok as hot as I possibly can for stir fry? I have heard of people pre-heating their woks for 20 minutes to prepare for a stir fry but isn’t this a bit dangerous? I fear that that kind of heat could heat the oil high enough that it catches on fire or even warps the wok.
I hope you guys can answer my questions. I love stir fry but there is so much misinformation of the internet and bad advice.
BTW we cook 通菜 and 西洋菜 a lot
after salt and sugar.whats the third seasoning did u put？
Hmmm, warm raw broccoli with warm raw garlic. Nasty.
cute gal
Great video. Thanks. I’m wondering whether there is a method behind choosing a sauce for a particular veg or you do it by “instinct”. Greetings
Thanks guys!!! I made some super tasty baby bok choy last night with your garlic recipe here, last night.