Description
Are you looking for an easy to make, but also authentic Thai vegetable stir-fry? This recipe for Thai stir-fried broccoli with ginger and Thai oyster sauce is made for you!
Ingredients
Scale
- 2–3 tbsp. cooking oil
- 2 in. piece of ginger, peeled and finely chopped (optional)
- 1 onion, sliced into strips
- 5 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 2 small stalks of broccoli, cut into bite-size pieces (or veggie of choice)
- 2 carrots sliced into rounds, (or veggie of choice)
- 1 cup green cabbage, sliced into 3 in. long and 2 in.wide pieces, or so
- 1/2 cup mushrooms
- 2–3 tbsp., to taste Thai Oyster Sauce
- 2–3 tsp. to taste, fish sauce
- a few dashes of White Pepper Powder
Instructions
- Bring a pot of water to boil, and add salt to make it taste salty. Add all the vegetables, and cook for only about 15-30 seconds so they lose just a bit of the rawness, but are still crunchy.
- Drain them, and reserve ¼ cup of the blanching liquid.
- Warm the cooking oil over high heat in a wok.
- Once the oil is almost smoking, add the garlic, ginger and onion. Take the wok off the heat for a moment to stir it all up until it smells amazing.
- Return to heat and toss in the veggies, oyster sauce, fish sauce and sugar to taste.
- Stir-fry the veggies until tender crisp, adding blanching liquid at the end to help make the brown sauce.
- Turn off the heat and sprinkle on white pepper to taste.
- Serve with steamed Jasmine rice, and any Thai main entrees like Thai Cashew Chicken! Enjoy!
Notes
Feel free to add tofu or meat of your choice to make this a main dish!
Need some more veggie ideas? Thai cooks will use 2.5 cups or so of whatever they have on hand. The most common Thai vegetables used in Pad Pak are: Chinese broccoli
cabbage
baby corn
carrots
oyster mushrooms
snow peas
If you want to make Vegetarian Thai Vegetable Stir-Fry: Use vegetarian oyster sauce, which is usually made from mushrooms.Leave out the fish sauce and use Thai thin soy sauce instead.
- Prep Time: 10
- Cook Time: 5
- Category: Vegetable Side Dish
- Method: Stir-Fry
- Cuisine: Thai