Chinese Vegetarian Recipes

Stir-fried Celery

Stir Fried Celery

Introduction to celery recipes:

Celery is a vegetable that I would stay away from as far as cooking is concerned. However, whenever I go to a restaurant, I would love to order a celery dish in order to see what the cook in that restaurant would do with it and how he does it. To be honest, when stir fried properly, celery recipes can be very delicious.

To cook the celery well, you also need to choose the tender celery in the market place because the older ones are just a torture when it comes to chewing the fibers in you mouth. This is easy if you can separate the good from the bad by looking at the colors of different kinds of celery. I would prefer the lighter color.

Today, I would introduce you to a stir fried celery that I involved a newly learned trick into the recipe that I use most of the time.

Ingredients:

Celery: 300 g

Seasonings:

Scallion: 20 g

Vegetable oil: 10 g

MSG: 3 g

Salt: 5 g

Preparation Work:

1.Turn on the heat and put the wok with 1000 ml water onto the heat;

2. Separate the celery sticks along the stem with hands;

3. Rinse the celery sticks clean with cool water;

4. Chop the celery into strips of 5 cm long;

5. Put the celery strips into the boiling water and wait until they are done (but don’t over do it);

6. Strain the celery strips out of the hot water;

7. Chop the scallion coarsely.

Cooking Steps:

1. Preheat the vegetable oil in the wok;

2. Drop the chopped scallion into the wok and stir a few strokes;

3. Add the prepared celery strips into the wok and stir fully;

4. Add in the salt and MSG and stir evenly.

Tips for cooking the stir fried celery:

1. It’s difficult to control the heating when it comes to celery. So letting it go through the boiled water is a good way. This is the trick that I have just learned from cooking books.

2. Cut it through the middle when you find out that you have chosen thick celery. You can do without the going through boiling water part. But I found it helpful to do this.