Roasted Bok Choy side dish or Meal (veg or vegan)

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Roasted Bok Choy side dish or Meal

 

I learned this super easy sauce from my aunt from Thailand, it sounds like a lot

of sugar, but it is just perfect.

 

preheat oven to 450 degrees

wash bok choy leaves separately in warm water so they are esier to handle, not

so bitter cold from the fridge.

cut them up, no need to be precise, maybe a couple of inches long pieces.

The head of bok choy is usually large, so you will need a very large roasting

pan. Place all pieces in roasting pan.

 

Ingredients:

The bok choy

1/2 cup vegetable oil

2/3 cup red cooking wine

2/3 cup soy sauce

1 cup brown sugar

2 tablespoons garlic powder

 

Mix all ingredients in a mixing bowl. Pour ingredients over the bok choy and

stir around. You won't be able to stir much at first, as the bok choy will be to

the top of your large roasting pan. Place the pan in the oven on the middle rack

and back for 25-30 minutes, stirring every 5 minutes. Try not to let too much

heat out of the oven when you stir, so take the pan out of the oven to stir, and

then put it back in.

 

After 25-30 minutes you will have a delicious dish. Delightfully crunchy, but

not too crunchy, and the leafy part like the consistency of spinach.

I can't tell you how delicious this is.

 

Now, if you want to make an easy meal out of it, use some chick'n pieces like

Quorn, my personal favorite, or your favorite soy product and make some rice.

Pour the sauce that will be left in the bok choy pan over the rice and Chik'n

pieces. you may want to thicken the sauce a bit for the chick'n pieces and rice,

like explained below.

 

what you can also do is save the sauce from the bok choy in the fridge or

freezer. When ready to use, warm up in a pan and add a thickener, like wondra or

cornstarch, or flour and water. When it gets a bit thicker you can use this

thicker sauce to pour over any meat substitute, or any vegetable at all,

broccoli is great for this sauce.

 

blessings,

Chanda Maria