Chinese stir fry - Snow Peas with dried shrimps and garlic

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A simple and humble snow peas recipe prepared & cooked using Chinese stir fry technique.

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Chinese stir fry - Snow Peas with dried shrimps and garlic

A simple and humble snow peas recipe prepared & cooked using Chinese stir fry technique.

#CA2025
#CookpadApron2025
#June2026
#snowpeas
#lunch
#dinner
#stirfry
#appetizer
#garlic
#Asian
#texas
#HEB
#snowpea
#peas
#shrimps
#beans
#chinese

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Ingredients

3 servings
  1. 381 g/ 0.840 lb snow peas
  2. 1-2 TBSPdried shrimps (see pic)
  3. 2Big cloves of garlic
  4. 2bird eye chillies or any red chili
  5. 1/2 TSPTurmeric powder
  6. ✅️ SEASONINGS
  7. 1 TSPchicken bouillon (or to taste)
  8. 1/2 TSPsugar
  9. ✅️ VARIATIONS
  10. 1. Adjust chillies to your heat tolerance
  11. 2. Chicken bouillon or chicken seasoning powder can be substituted with other type of bouillon
  12. 3. Try adding ginger - thinly slice young ginger & then JULIENNE these slices into FINE STRIPS. Add to the pan together with crushed or pounded ingredients
  13. ✅️ NOTES
  14. 1. Snow peas are to be thinly sliced and this is a must for this recipe
  15. 2. Another thing to remember is, ingredients like chillies, garlic and shrimps are to be FINELY crushed or pounded in mortar and pestle to release their flavor and aroma
  16. 3. Chinese stir fry technique involves cooking ingredients quickly over high heat with continuous stirring & tossing
  17. 4. All ingredients are cut into small, uniform pieces so they cook evenly

Cooking Instructions

  1. 1

    Remove both end of the snow peas. See pic below. Fill a bowl with water and wash snow peas. Repeat washing if necessary. Drain and discard water.

  2. 2

    Slice snow peas into thin slices. You can grab a few, stack them and slice them at once. It doesn't have to be perfect. See pic below.

  3. 3

    Gather dried shrimps, garlic and chillies. Using mortar and pestle, pound them well. Prepare the seasonings and turmeric.

  4. 4

    Over medium heat, add 4 tbsp of oil (or as needed) in a pan or wok. Before the oil gets too hot, add finely crushed shrimps, garlic and chillies (see pictures). Add turmeric powder. Stir and continue to sauté these ingredients until aromatic. Add snow peas.

  5. 5

    Continue to stir for a minute. Add seasonings - a TSP of chicken bouillon (or to taste) and 1/2 TSP of sugar. Over medium to high heat, continue to stir and cook until snow peas turn bright green and it takes less than 5 minutes depending on how strong is your heat. Taste and adjust seasonings if necessary. Remove from the heat and serve hot over plain warm rice.

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