How to Prepare Bok Choy
Bok choy is a superfood vegetable. This garlic mushroom bok choy is a healthy, easy, quick recipe to feel good all year long. Other methods of preparing bok choy are garlic bok choy stir fry or oven roasted.
With everyone trying to be healthier these days, this is the perfect recipe to add to your dinner rotation.
Ingredients for Garlic Mushroom Bok Choy
This is a no-fuss, insanely good recipe that involves only 3 main ingredients:
- Garlic
- Mushroom
- Bok choy
How Long Does It Take to Stir Fry Bok Choy?
This recipe takes only 10 minutes to make. 8 minutes prep time and 2 minutes cook time in a skillet.
Bok choy is crisp and crunchy with leafy green leaves; they take 1-2 minutes to stir fry. DO NOT overcook.
All you need for the seasoning is a pinch of salt and you will have a wonderfully tasty veggie dish that goes well with just about anything.
How to Cook Bok Choy?
This recipe is easy to make. You can be creative with this dish and use any kinds of mushrooms to cook bok choy: white, cremini, oyster, enoki, buna shimeji, king trumpet mushrooms, etc.
You can also combine a few types of mushrooms to stir fry. It’s totally up to you but the end result will always be delectable.
How Many Calories per Serving?
This recipe is only 135 calories per serving.
What Dishes to Serve with This Recipe?
This meal is best served with main dishes. For a wholesome Chinese meal and easy weeknight dinner, I recommend the following recipes.
Garlic Mushroom Bok Choy
Garlic Mushroom Bok Choy – the easiest, healthiest, and best veggie dish with bok choy, mushroom and garlic. 3 ingredients & 10 minutes to make.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 tablespoons oil
- 3 cloves garlic minced
- 4 oz. shiitake mushrooms (stem removed and sliced)
- 10 oz. bok choy (rinsed and drained)
- 1/4 teaspoon salt or to taste
Directions
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1
Rinse the bok choy with cold water, drained. Cut and remove the lower part of the bok choy stems. Cut the (bigger) leaves lengthwise to halves. Set aside.
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2
Heat up a wok or pan on high heat. Add the oil until heated, then add the garlic and stir-fry until aromatic. Add the mushroom, do a few quick stirs before adding the bok choy.
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3
Add salt and continue to stir fry until the leaves are wilted, but the stems remain crisp. Turn off the heat and serve the garlic mushroom bok choy immediately.
Recipe Notes
If you have Chinese bottled oyster sauce at home, you can use 1/2 tablespoon of oyster sauce instead of the salt.
I have made this twice now. It has been amazing. Both times. I made three times the recipe last night for 4 people, and there is little left!! My guests loved it too. Perfect for letting the tastes of the local organically grown vegetables shine through.
Thank you!?
Was very good BUT I think next time I will use the smaller type of Bok Choy. My 1st. time cooking it. I know hard to believe!!!
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I made this a sandwich a side dish for steak. I added a bit more oyster sauce and garlic. It was easy and everyone liked it
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No, use oil.
We will enjoy your Garlic Mushroom BokChoy stir fry tonight with fish fillets and brown rice. I have oyster mushrooms and baby BokChoy, so I know it will be good!
That’s awesome!
I am going to try this tonight, will add shrimp and cauliflower rice to make it a full meal, sounds good .
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This is so good!
Thanks Diane.
Loved this the first time. The second time I used different vegetables, so it’s versatile. Thanks so much for sharing, I think you are doing a great job.
Thanks Emilio, thanks for trying this garlic mushroom bok choy recipe on my site, please try more recipes: https://reference.rasamalaysia.com/recipe-index-gallery/
first ever recipe i tried from you.kept me coming back ,good job!!!
Thanks!
New to cooking, this is so perfect and easy! Can’t wait to try more healthy and delicious recipes! Thanks so much!
Thanks for trying my garlic mushroom bok choy!