Healthy Malabar Spinach With Oyster Sauce
Diversify your vegetable meals with Malabar spinach. It is one of the easiest blanched recipes that you can do in just 10 minutes or less with only a few simple ingredients. All you need are your Malabar spinach, minced garlic, shredded red pepper, and oyster sauce.
Ingredients
- 400 g Malabar spinach
Cleansing
- 1 tbsp of salt
- Water
Blanching
- 1 tbsp of salt
- Water
- 1 tsp Oil
Stir-Frying
- 1 tbsp Oil
- 20 g of minced garlic
- 20 g of shredded red pepper
- A drizzle of oyster sauce adjust to taste
- 1/2 cup of water
Instructions
- Clean the Malabar spinach with water and snap off the leaves from the stem to separate each.
- Fill a bowl with water and add a tablespoon of salt. Soak the Malabar spinach for a few minutes. This is an important step to kill bacteria, bugs, and eggs still left on the leaves.
- Then, prepare a pan with water, 1 tablespoon of salt, and a bit of oil. Bring to a boil.
- Once it boils, blanch the Malabar spinach for one minute. Make sure not to overblanch to avoid wilting and losing nutrients.
- After 1 minute, transfer it to your desired serving plate. I suggest something heat-resistant since you will pour the hot sauce over it later.
- Chop your garlic and red peppers.
- After removing the water and spinach, heat the oil in the pan, about 1 tbsp of oil.
- Fry the minced garlic and shredded red pepper.
- Add oyster sauce and water. Adjust to taste.
- Allow it to boil until it reaches the desired thickness. For a thicker consistency, consider adding a cornstarch slurry (1 tbsp of cornstarch mixed with 2 tbsp of water).
- Pour the sauce over the blanched Malabar spinach.
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