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Liang Ban Bo Cai (Blanched Spinach with Sesame and Garlic)
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Liang Ban Bo Cai (Blanched Spinach with Sesame and 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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Bring a pot of water to a boil and blanch the spinach 30 seconds, until just wilted.
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Drain and rinse under cold water, then squeeze out the excess liquid and cut into shorter lengths.
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Toss the spinach with the minced garlic, sesame oil, rice vinegar and salt.
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Serve at room temperature or lightly chilled.
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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 Liang Ban Bo Cai (Blanched Spinach with Sesame and 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, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Liang Ban Bo Cai (Blanched Spinach with Sesame and Garlic) carries sesame. 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 | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | Yes | Chao Dou Miao (Pea Shoots with Garlic) |
| 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
- 80 kcal
- Protein
- 4 g
- Carbs
- 5 g
- Fat
- 5 g
- Fiber
- 3 g
- Sugar
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 190 mg
- Saturated fat
- 1 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Liang Ban Bo Cai (Blanched Spinach with Sesame and Garlic) takes about 12 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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