I am the stir-fry queen. I will throw anything in a wok and cook it. I
mainly like chicken and beef stir-fry. I often go to the farmers market
and buy fresh vegetables. There was an Asian family there selling their
vegetables. Most of the stuff they had I had never seen but I am open
to trying new things. They convinced me to buy a vegetable that looked
like a cucumber and some other weird shaped vegetable.They referred to
the strange item as a luffa.
Luffa is a fruit eaten as a vegetable
and belongs to the cucumber family. The weird thing about this fruit is
its use as a bath or kitchen sponge also spelled loofah. The fruit
dries out for use as a natural scrubber. Who knew? It is a popular
vegetable in Chinese stir-fry dishes and known as Chinese okra. Since I
am such an adventurer, I bought one to see what I could do with it. I
came up with a Chinese okra chicken recipe.
Ingredients
1 lb chicken breast
1 bunch broccoli
1 Chinese okra (luffa)
1 onion
1 tbsp garlic chili paste
2 tbsp sesame ginger marinade
6 tbsp oil
¼ cup soy sauce
1-2 cups cold rice
Salt and pepper to taste
Wash
chicken and marinade in sesame ginger sauce for an hour. Place a wok on
the stove and add 2 tbsp oil. Let the wok get nice and hot before
adding ingredients. Cut the chicken breast into pieces. I season the
chicken with sea salt and stir in the hot oil for a few minutes. Remove
chicken from wok. Clean the wok and add 2 tbsp oil. I microwave the
broccoli for 1-2 minutes first before adding to the wok. Wash the
Chinese okra and cut the ends. Slice into ½ inch pieces. Stir-fry
broccoli and luffa in the hot oil. Add the garlic chili paste in the
middle of the vegetables and stir around. Remove vegetables once tender.
Add 2 tbsp oil to wok then add cold rice and stir-fry for a minute or
two. Cut up the onion. I like to add the onion at the end so it won't
become soggy. Add to the rice the chicken, vegetables, and cut up onion.
I don't use much salt since soy sauce has a lot of sodium. Pour the soy
sauce into the wok and stir-fry all the ingredients together. Enjoy
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