Recipe: Tasty Choy sum(Chinese oysters sauce)

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Choy sum(Chinese oysters sauce). Choy sum is a simple leafy dish with garlic, soy sauce and oyster sauce. Choy sum is a green leafy vegetable similar to gai lan, and can be characterized by the distinct yellow flowers which it bears. Each flower has four yellow, oval to round petals with six.

For home-styled choy sum, many Cantonese people choose to blanch choy sum, as it will result in a light, refreshing flavor that is not oily.

Yu choy, or choy sum, is a green, leafy, Chinese vegetable, similar in appearance to Chinese broccoli, which it's often mistaken for.

Yu choy has longer, thinner stalks, and they have tiny yellow flowers rather than the white ones that Chinese broccoli have.

You can have Choy sum(Chinese oysters sauce) using 18 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Choy sum(Chinese oysters sauce)

1. It’s 2 of table spoons oysters sauce.

2. Prepare 2 of caps of white wine.

3. Prepare 10 pieces of white mushrooms.

4. You need 1 of big clove of garlic crushed.

5. Prepare of Small ginger crushed.

6. It’s of Big shrimps.

7. It’s 1 Packet of chicken filets diced.

8. Prepare 2 tsp of Cajun spices.

9. It’s 5 pieces of asparagus cut in twos.

10. Prepare 5 pieces of big carrots diced.

11. It’s 3 of table of vegetable oil.

12. It’s 1 of big red capsicum diced.

13. It’s 1 of big yellow capsicum diced.

14. It’s 2 tsp of corn starch dissolved in water thick like pap.

15. Prepare of I big bulb of white onions.

16. Prepare 1 cup of clean water depends on quantity or thickness you want.

17. It’s 1/2 tsp of sea salt.

18. Prepare 1 handful of fresh spinach to garnish.

Yu choy is also a bit sweeter than the broccoli, which has a more bitter flavour.

Heat oil in a frying pan over medium heat.

Pour the sauce over the vegetables and serve.

Chinese yu choy is one of the sweetest-tasting Chinese leafy green vegetables available, especially when they are picked when young and tender.

Choy sum(Chinese oysters sauce) instructions

1. Get a clean pot on the fire.

2. Put the oil and allow to heat a little.

3. Stir fry the diced chicken filets and shrimps until a little tender remove from heat and set aside.

4. Add a little oil on the same pot again,add the diced onions,crushed garlic and ginger and stir fry until a little brown.

5. Add the cup of water and allow to shimmer a bit.

6. Add the chicken filets and shrimp.

7. Add the mushrooms and asparagus,oysters sauce,white wine.

8. Add the Cajun spices and corn starch stir and feel the taste before adding the sea salt.

9. Add the remaining ingredients and cover to cook for 3 minuets.

10. Add the spinach stir and remove from heat.

11. Serve while it’s still very hot.

12. I sip mine alone just like pepper soup.

You may have seen this vegetable lightly blanched and served with oyster sauce at dim sum houses, though it's less common than the Chinese Broccoli with oyster sauce that we find more often.

Choy sum stalks are quite long and they come in big batches, so it can be a bit tricky to fit them in a frying pan.

In a small bowl mix together oyster sauce, sugar, soy sauce and water and set aside.

Rinse choy sum under cold water and cut in half so you will have stems and leaves remaining.

The fried garlic and the sauce can be made in advance to make it.