Sesame Sauce Drizzled Bok Choy Stir Fry

Author: Anita Jacobson

Courses: Side Dish Sauce

Cuisines: Chinese

Diets: Gluten Free Vegan

Ingredients: Vegetables

Prep Time: 15 mins

Cook Time: 10 mins

Total Time: 25 mins

Serves: 4

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon oil
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 inch ginger, thinly sliced
• 300 gram baby bok choy, halved/quartered, washed and drained
• 1 tablespoon fried minced garlic for garnish (optional)
• Sesame sauce
• 50 gram sesame seeds, toasted
• 1 tablespoon fried minced garlic
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 2 tablespoon soy sauce
• 2 tablespoon sesame oil
• 6 tablespoon water
• 1 teaspoon chili oil (optional)

Instructions

• Sesame sauce
  1. In a food processor, puree together toasted sesame seeds, fried minced garlic, and sugar.
  2. Transfer to a bowl, then mix together with the rest of the sesame sauce ingredients. Set aside
• Bok choy stir fry
  1. Heat oil over medium high heat in a large frying pan. Sauté garlic and ginger until fragrant, about 2 minutes.
  2. Add bok choy to the pan, stir well, then cover the pan and cook for 2 minutes.
  3. Remove the cover, the leafy dark green part of the bok choy should look fully wilted while the light green stems should still look quite firm.
  4. Turn off heat and arrange on a serving plate.
  5. Add sesame sauce to the frying pan and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 3 minutes. Then drizzle the sauce over the arranged bok choy.
  6. Garnish with some fried minced garlic and serve immediately.