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Suan Rong Kong Xin Cai (Garlic Water Spinach)
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Suan Rong Kong Xin Cai (Garlic Water Spinach) 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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Wash the water spinach well and cut into 3-inch lengths.
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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 but not browned.
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Add the water spinach and stir-fry 2 to 3 minutes over high heat, until just wilted and still bright green.
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Season with salt and serve immediately.
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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 Suan Rong Kong Xin Cai (Garlic 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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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Suan Rong Kong Xin Cai (Garlic Water Spinach) 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
- 110 kcal
- Protein
- 3 g
- Carbs
- 5 g
- Fat
- 9 g
- Fiber
- 3 g
- Sugar
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 380 mg
- Saturated fat
- 1 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Suan Rong Kong Xin Cai (Garlic Water Spinach) 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 summer, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
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