Saturday, December 11, 2010

Bok Choy in Coconut Milk


Ingredients

3 boy choys
1 cup of coconut milk
1 tbsp of Soy sauce 
2 tbsps of peanut butter
1 tspn of grated ginger
1 crushed garlic clove
1 shallot sliced
1 tbsp of canola oil
1 tbsp of mirin (japanese cooking wine)
Water to dilute the sauce in needed
Soba buckwheat noodles

Cook buckwheat noodles in boiling salted water until al dente. Cut the bock choy in half and rinse well under cold water and chop the white part in bite size pieces.  In a large pan saute onion in canola oil for a couple of minutes, add garlic and ginger and cook for 1 more minute. Add coconut milk, soy sauce, and peanut butter and mirin. Season with salt and pepper and taste the sauce to balance the seasonings, add more of anything above if necessary. 
Add the bok choy and cover, cook for 5 minutes or until it's soft but still bring green and crunchy. Add the pasta to the pan, reheat for a minute and mix everything well. 

Benefits of bok choy