San Choy Bau

Australian

San Choy Bau

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San Choy Bau is Australian home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is 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.

30 min Medium

Ingredients

Serves
6

The quantities follow this count.

How to cook it

  1. Wash the lettuce leaves and set aside whole to use as cups.

  2. Heat the oil in a wok and stir-fry the garlic and ginger for 30 seconds.

  3. Add the pork mince and cook, breaking it up, until browned, about 6 minutes.

  4. Stir in the diced mushrooms, carrot, and chopped water chestnuts, and cook for 3 minutes.

  5. Add the soy sauce and hoisin sauce and cook until the vegetables are just tender, about 2 minutes.

  6. Scatter with sliced green onion and spoon into the lettuce cups to serve.

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Serve it with

A Australian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside San Choy Bau, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

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. San Choy Bau carries soy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in San Choy Bau
Allergen In this dish Cook this instead
Peanuts No
Tree nuts No
Dairy No
Gluten No
Shellfish No
Eggs No
Soy Yes Aussie Butter Chicken
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
270 kcal
Protein
24 g
Carbs
12 g
Fat
14 g
Fiber
1 g
Sugar
2 g
Sodium
620 mg
Saturated fat
4 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

San Choy Bau takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.

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