Gai Choy or Jie Cai tastes quite bitter no wonder it is also called green mustard. Growing up in a tropical country with mosquitoes everywhere; my mom used to tell me if I eat this veggies I won't be bitten by mosquitoes because my blood would be bitter and mosquitoes won't like it.
I don't think it's true but it worked to get me to eat this.
I was very happy when I found the organic one at our local farmer market so I called mom and asked for the recipe.
The ingredients:
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Gai Choy
Printable Recipe
Ingredients:
3 stems of Gai Choy cut into 1 inch height, separate the stems and the leaves
2 Tablespoon oil
1 Tablespoon minced Garlic
2 Tablespoon chopped red onion
1 big red chili
1 Tablespoon fish sauce
1 Tablespoon oyster sauce
1 teaspoon of sugar
1 teaspoon of dried shrimp
Salt & Pepper as preferred
½ cup of water
Heat the pan, when the pan is hot add garlic, onion, red chili, and dried shrimp follow with the stems. Stir with wooden spatula.
Add chili, sugar, oyster sauce, fish sauce, salt & pepper, keep stirring
Add the leaves part, water, cover for about a minute
Keep cooking and stirring until the stems part is soft.
Enjoy!
