Stir-fried Thai-style tat soi

  • Portion size: Serves 4 as a side
  • Hands-on time 15 min
  • Difficulty: easy
Recipe by: Kay Plunkett-Hogge

Kay Plunkett-Hogge’s recipe for tat soi, a broad-leafed green vegetable, makes a quick-to-make side dish offering wonderful sweet and sour flavours.

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Ingredients

  • 4 small garlic cloves, peeled
  • 1 long red or orange chilli, finely chopped
  • 1 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 250g tat soi (see Kay’s introduction), trimmed and chopped into even lengths
  • 1 tsp caster sugar
  • 1-2 tbsp oyster sauce
  • 3 tbsp yellow bean sauce (see Know-how)
  • 2 tbsp water (if needed)

You’ll also need…

  • Good wok (see left); pestle and mortar
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Method

  1. Using a pestle and mortar, pound the garlic, chilli and a pinch of salt to a coarse paste.
  2. Heat the wok over a high heat, then add the oil. Once it’s almost smoking, add the garlic and chilli paste and stir-fry for 2 minutes until golden and fragrant. Add the tat soi and continue stir frying
    for 1-2 minutes.
  3. Add the sugar, oyster sauce, yellow bean sauce and a splash of water, stirring after each addition
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  5. Stir-fry until bubbling fiercely (try to catch some red flame at the edge of the wok; see box, far left), the tat soi leaves are wilted and the stems are tender but still have some bite. If the dish looks a little dry at any point, add another splash of water. Serve immediately.

Nutrition

  • 60kcals Calories
  • 3.1g (0.2g saturated) Fat
  • 2.2g Protein
  • 4.9g (3.5g sugars) Carbs
  • 1.7g Fibre
  • 1.2g Salt

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Yellow bean sauce, also sold as salted soy beans, is a sweet-salty sauce made from salted and fermented yellow soy beans. We used Woh Hup, available from Asian supermarkets and wingyip.com.

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