Vegetable Ramen is a simple and easy-to-make meatless Monday meal all instant ramen lovers must try. The recipe is vegetarian and vegan, but you could also add your favorite protein—chicken, shrimp, pork, beef, or tofu! (Just click on those links to find out how to prepare them for stir-frying.) Note: This post was originally published
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Category Archive: ‘Vegetables’
Celtuce may be unfamiliar to you, but it’s one of our favorite vegetables. It’s delicious cooked as well as raw in this Celtuce Salad with Scallion Oil. Celtuce is gaining popularity in the West, going by other names like stem lettuce and asparagus lettuce. Let’s talk about what it is, and why you should head
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This recipe for zucchini with glass noodles is a variation on a Cantonese recipe that my dad made when Kaitlin and I were growing up, and that his mother made for him. I like using ground pork or chicken, though the original Cantonese version features dried shrimp. You don’t often see zucchini in Chinese cooking,
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Chao He Cai, a stir-fry of clear noodles, eggs, chives, carrots and bean sprouts, is Chinese home-cooked comfort food. Just like our tomato egg stir fry, it’s a modest dish. While it’s not shouting from the rooftops like some showier recipes, it’s what one would whip up at home on the regular—not simply because it’s
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Mapo Eggplant is exactly what it sounds like—the familiar flavors of everyone’s favorite Mapo Tofu recipe, with the replacement of tender, silky eggplant. Why Mapo An Eggplant? For some reason—some folks out there are STILL holding down the fort on hating tofu! I can’t fathom why, when tofu comes in so many different types and
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I’ve seen a lot of detox soup recipes out there, but I think this version, which uses Asian ingredients like wakame (dried seaweed), ginger, soy sauce, sesame oil, and silken tofu, is particularly tasty. It also happens to be vegetarian, vegan, low-fat, and quick to make! A Quick Shot of Umami Some of you may
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If you have a good steamed broccoli recipe in your arsenal, you may find yourself making it every week! This recipe fits the bill. While the broccolis steaming, all just whip up a tasty sauce to drizzle over the top. Your side dish is done in 10 minutes! Broccoli is a dependable vegetable that’s always
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Vegetable Moo Shu is healthy and vegan, but it’s also just plain delicious. We’re pretty confident that anyone will enjoy this dish. Not just vegans and vegetarians. It’s one of those dishes that makes us happy to eat less meat and more vegetables at a meal. Note: This recipe was originally published in September 2017.
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