Brown Rice Cake Stir Fry
Brown rice cakes provide more depth of flavor so you don’t need as much salt, fat, or sugar to make a tasty veggie-filled stir fry.
Equipment
- 1 chef's knife
- 1 large cutting board
- 1 5 Quart pan or 11" chicken fryer
Ingredients
- 1 pound sliced brown rice cakes
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 large onion thinly sliced
- 1 bunch choi sum chopped, leaves and stems separated (about 4 cups)
- 4 ounces eryngi mushrooms sliced
- 12 garlic cloves diced (about 1 ½ tablespoons)
- 1 inch fresh ginger grated or chopped finely (about 1 ½ tablespoons)
- 1 ½ tbsp soy sauce
- 2 tbsp oyster sauce
- ¼ bunch garlic chives cut into 1" pieces (about ¼ cup)
Instructions
- Rinse and/or soak brown rice cakes per package instructions.
- Heat pan to medium high heat. Add olive oil to the pan.
- Add onions, choi sum stems, and mushrooms to the pan and cook for 3 to 5 minutes until onions soften to your liking, stirring occasionally.
- Add rice cakes, garlic, ginger, soy sauce, and oyster sauce to the pan. Stirring frequently so the rice cakes do not stick to the pan, cook for 3 to 5 minutes until the rice cakes are well coated.
- Add choi sum leaves and garlic chives to the pan, stir, and cook for one minute. If the rice cakes start to stick to the bottom of the pan, add 2 tablespoons of water to create some steam and scrape the bottom of the pan to loosen the rice cakes and little bits of flavor!
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Tips and Tricks
Vegetable swaps?
Swap choi sum for bok choy, baby bok choy, mustard cabbage, or chinese (napa) cabbage. In place of eryngi mushrooms, try oyster, seafood, shimeiji (beech) or cremini mushroom. No garlic chives? Green onions or regular chives are great substitutions.
Can I use low sodium soy sauce?
There’s very little soy sauce used in this recipe compared to the volume of ingredients. If you only have low sodium soy sauce at home, use 3 tablespoons of low sodium soy sauce. In addition, make a slurry of 1 tsp cornstarch and 1 tsp water to thicken the sauce. Add this to the pan when you add the choi sum leaves and garlic chives and stir everything to combine.
Need to make this vegetarian?
Vegetarian oyster sauce is available at many Asian grocery stores or in your Asian food section. You can also try Yondu, a vegetable-based umami sauce, or vegetarian fish sauce.
Replacement for brown rice cakes?
This would be delicious with soba noodles, GreeNoodle, or fresh ramen noodles. Just prepare your noodles per the package directions. Add your sauce without the noodles to the pan and cook for a couple minutes. When the sauce is cooked through, add the noodles, leaves of the choi sum, and garlic chives to the pan and stir until well combined.
I really need to have some meat…
To add some protein while keeping this dish light, try ½ a pound of ground pork, thinly sliced beef, or chicken thighs. If using meat, increase the soy sauce to 3 tablespoons and oyster sauce to 3 tablespoons so your meat will also be flavorful.