Vietnamese
Nam Xao Cai (An Chay Mushrooms with Greens)
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Nam Xao Cai (An Chay Mushrooms with Greens) is Vietnamese home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the cooked vegetable and the dish at the centre. 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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Slice the mushrooms and cut the bok choy into thick pieces, keeping stems and leaves separated.
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Heat the oil in a wok over high heat and fry the garlic until fragrant, about 20 seconds.
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Add the mushrooms and stir-fry until they release their liquid and start to brown, about 3 minutes.
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Add the bok choy stems and stir-fry 1 minute.
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Add the leaves and soy sauce and toss until the stems are crisp-tender and the leaves are wilted, about 2 minutes.
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Serve hot, with rice served alongside. This is an an chay dish, seasoned with soy rather than fish sauce.
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Serve it with
A Vietnamese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Nam Xao Cai (An Chay Mushrooms with Greens), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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Something to sip
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What it is eaten with
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Something cool and fresh
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. Nam Xao Cai (An Chay Mushrooms with Greens) carries gluten and soy. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Banh Xeo (Vietnamese Sizzling Crepes) |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | Yes | Banh Xeo (Vietnamese Sizzling Crepes) |
| 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
- 100 kcal
- Protein
- 4 g
- Carbs
- 4 g
- Fat
- 7 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sugar
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 230 mg
- Saturated fat
- 1 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Nam Xao Cai (An Chay Mushrooms with Greens) 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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