Malaysian
Stir-Fried Bok Choy with Sambal Belacan
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Stir-Fried Bok Choy with Sambal Belacan is Malaysian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the cooked vegetable. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Blend or mash the garlic, red chilies, and shrimp paste into a paste.
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Heat the oil in a wok over high heat and fry the paste until fragrant, about 1 minute.
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Add the bok choy and stir-fry until it starts to wilt, about 2 minutes.
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Add the water, cover, and cook until the stems are crisp-tender, about 3 minutes.
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Season with salt and serve hot.
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Serve it with
A Malaysian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Stir-Fried Bok Choy with Sambal Belacan, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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Something to sip
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Stir-Fried Bok Choy with Sambal Belacan carries shellfish. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | Yes | Choy Sum Goreng Bawang Putih (Stir-Fried Choy Sum with Garlic) |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 150 kcal
- Protein
- 4 g
- Carbs
- 8 g
- Fat
- 11 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sugar
- 3 g
- Sodium
- 390 mg
- Saturated fat
- 1 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Stir-Fried Bok Choy with Sambal Belacan takes about 15 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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