Tac Choy: A Mexithai Fiesta!

For dinner on last night we wanted to make tacos. We're huge fans of tacos and could pretty much eat them everyday. In oder to continue with our movement to not waste vegetables that we get from the farm share and to try out new recipes that involve eating more greens, we decided to cook the bok choy last night as a side dish!

Ingredients:
3 Baby Bok Choy (or more, we used what we had from the farm which was 3)
1/4 Cup Water
2T Soy Sauce
1t Olive Oil
1t Sugar
2-3 Cloves Garlic, to taste, minced
Salt, to taste
Pepper, to taste


For those of you who aren't sure what bok choy is... this is what it looks like:

Many people refer to it as Chinese cabbage.



Directions:
Step 1. Rinse bok choy thoroughly and cut off about an inch and a half of the stems (where they all come together at the bottom of the plant).

Step 2. Cut the leaves off each stem of the bok choy and place in a separate pile. Dice up the stems and the leaves, again keeping them in separate piles.


Step 3. Place a skillet over medium low heat. Add the oil and minced garlic. Cook for a minute or two, until garlic is slightly browned but not black.

Step 4. Add the stems of the bok choy to the skillet and cook for 2 minutes. Now add the leaves of the bok choy as well (the stems take longer to cook).

Step 5. Add all other ingredients except for water. Mix contents thoroughly.

Step 6. Add the water and cover the pan. Allow bok choy to simmer for another minute or two, until wilted and appearing bright green color.



The taste was phenomenal and I am really excited to use more bok choy in a stir-fry dish. If we are allotted more in our Saturday pick-up, it will be on the list for next week!!

For the tacos- Andrew fried up some corn tortillas in safflower oil and baked up some flour tortillas in the oven plain. We heated up some refried beans and cooked ground beef we had in the freezer from Wholefoods. We of course added in some grated cheese and finished it off with homemade salsa. I didn't take pictures of the salsa this time- I made it early in the week pretty late at night. It turned out really well- excellent heat factor. I will be sure to take pictures on the next batch and post the recipe!




ENJOY!