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Shiitake and pak choi stir-fry

Shiitake and pak choi stir-fry, photographed for Pinch of Mint

By Tom · Updated

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  • Serves 2
  • About 35 min
  • Takes a bit of care

If you are wanting to create a healthy meal that is packed full of flavour and extremely tasty, you can't go too wrong with a stir-fry. They can be made super special with lots of unusual veggies, such as these Shiitake mushrooms or they can be equally when using up those random carrots and peppers hanging around in the bottom of the fridge.

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Shiitake and pak choi stir-fry

If you are wanting to create a healthy meal that is packed full of flavour and extremely tasty, you can't go too wrong with a stir-fry.

  • Serves 2
  • 30 min prep
  • 5 min cooking
  • Takes a bit of care

Times and difficulty are our estimates from the method, not stopwatch figures.

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Ingredients

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Method

  1. Step 1

    Begin by placing your pans on the hob over medium heat. Ideally, this will be one wok and one saucepan of salted boiling water. If you don't have a wok use a large frying pan or sauté pan.

  2. Step 2

    Next, add the sesame oil (2 tbsp) into the wok. Then the onions (2 onion) followed by the carrot (2). Cook for two minutes.

  3. Step 3

    Add into the pan, quartered shiitake mushrooms (500 g) followed by the runner beans (100 g) and baby corn (150 g).

  4. Step 4

    Now, it's time to cook the noodles (100 g). Place the noodles into a pan of salted boiling water and cook for 5 minutes. Prepare the rest of the vegetables, the sauce and the garnish as the noodles cook.

  5. Step 5

    Place a dry frying pan onto the hob over medium heat and toast the sesame seeds (20 g) until golden brown. Take them off the heat and set to one side.

  6. Step 6

    Add the shredded cavolo nero (3 nero) into the wok and start to make the sauce.

  7. Step 7

    For the sauce, place the sliced chilli (1 chilli), chopped garlic (2 garlic) and grated ginger (1 tsp) into a bowl followed by soy sauce, mirin (1 tbsp) and fish sauce (1 tsp). Mix all of the ingredients together.

  8. Step 8

    Slice up two spring onions (2 onions) and one more chilli (1 chilli) for the garnish.

  9. Step 9

    Take the noodles (100 g) directly from the pan of salted water and place them into the wok with the vegetables. Cover with sauce and mix well.

  10. Step 10

    Now it's time to plate up. Pile your plate high with noodles (100 g) and vegetables and give your stir-fry a sprinkle with the toasted sesame seeds (20 g), sliced chilli (1 chilli) and spring onion (2 onions).

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Questions people ask

How long does shiitake and pak choi stir-fry take?

About 35 min from start to finish, of which 30 min is prep and 5 min is cooking. That figure is worked out from the method rather than timed with a stopwatch, so give yourself a little more the first time.

How many does it serve, and can I change that?

As written it serves 2. Use the scale control on the recipe card to change it: every quantity in the ingredients and inside the method steps updates with it. Seasoning, and anything measured in pinches or splashes, is deliberately left alone.

Can I see the ingredients in ounces and pints?

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