Vietnamese
Rau Muong Xao Toi (Garlic Stir-Fried Water Spinach)
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Rau Muong Xao Toi (Garlic Stir-Fried Water Spinach) is Vietnamese 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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Trim the tough bottom ends of the water spinach and cut the stems and leaves into 3-inch lengths, keeping stems and leaves separated.
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Wash the greens thoroughly in a large bowl of cold water and spin or shake dry.
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Mince the garlic finely.
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Heat the oil in a wok over high heat until it shimmers, then add the garlic and stir constantly until just golden, about 20 seconds so it does not burn.
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Add the water spinach stems first and toss over high heat for 1 minute to start softening them.
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Add the leaves, fish sauce, and salt, and toss constantly until the stems are crisp-tender and the leaves are wilted and glossy, about 2 minutes.
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Serve immediately while still bright green, alongside rice.
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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 Rau Muong Xao Toi (Garlic Stir-Fried Water Spinach), 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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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. Rau Muong Xao Toi (Garlic Stir-Fried Water Spinach) carries fish. 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 | Yes | Nam Xao Cai (An Chay Mushrooms with Greens) |
| 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
- 90 kcal
- Protein
- 3 g
- Carbs
- 4 g
- Fat
- 7 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sugar
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 470 mg
- Saturated fat
- 1 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Rau Muong Xao Toi (Garlic Stir-Fried Water Spinach) 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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