Chinese
Chao Dou Miao (Pea Shoots with Garlic)
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Chao Dou Miao (Pea Shoots with Garlic) is Chinese 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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Rinse the pea shoots and trim any tough stems.
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Heat the oil in a wok over high heat until just smoking.
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Add the garlic and stir-fry a few seconds until fragrant.
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Add the pea shoots and stir-fry 2 minutes over high heat, tossing constantly, until just wilted.
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Season with salt and serve right away, before they lose their bright color.
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Serve it with
A Chinese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Chao Dou Miao (Pea Shoots with Garlic), 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. Chao Dou Miao (Pea Shoots with Garlic) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish |
|---|---|
| Peanuts | No |
| Tree nuts | No |
| Dairy | No |
| Gluten | No |
| Shellfish | No |
| 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
- 120 kcal
- Protein
- 5 g
- Carbs
- 5 g
- Fat
- 9 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sugar
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 380 mg
- Saturated fat
- 1 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Chao Dou Miao (Pea Shoots with Garlic) takes about 10 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. It is at its best in spring, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
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