Friday, January 18, 2008

Lotus Root with Vegetables

Lotus roots is really a versatile vegetable. Is not only for making soup but you can use it for stir-fry, pickle, stew, make chips and even eat it raw as a salad. One of my favorite way of cooking it is a quick stir-frying with some vegetables. I like the sweet crunchy taste if it.

Ingredients :

1 small piece of lotus root - sliced thinly
half a carrot - sliced
1 red pepper - cut into chunks
a handful of french beans - cut into 1 1/2"
10 shrimps
2 cloves of garlic - finely chopped

Seasoning :

2 tbsp of oyster sauce
1 tbsp of soy sauce
1/2 cup of stock or water - more or less
Salt & pepper to taste
some cornstarch solutions - for thickening

1) Heat up some oil in frying pan and stir fry garlic until lightly brown.
2) Add in sliced carrots and lotus root. Stir fry for a minutes and add in the shrimp, french beans and red pepper. Continue stir frying it.
3) Add in seasoning and stock and stir fry it for additional 2 min.
4) Add in cornstarch solutions and stir fry till then sauce thicken.
5) Serve warm.

Note : I didn't add any salt to this dish.

14 comments:

  1. I love lotus root... Especially Lotus Root and Peanut soups... My mom boiled the soup for us alot when we were kids.... Sluuuurrrpp!

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  2. Gert...your photo look so good especially the shrimp.I see alot of blogger use lotus to stir fried as meal but I still didn't have the chance to cook myself.Did you buy the ready cut and clean lotus in vaccum pack?

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  3. Cat, I still have some lotus root and thinking of making peanut soup with kaki ayam :)

    Beachlover,thank you. I bought fresh lotus root from Chinatown. I didn't see any in a vaccum pack except for yam.

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  4. Oh this is so nice, nicelt done to perfection.

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  5. Lovely!! I love stir-fry lotus roots too.

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  6. Anonymous9:47 PM

    Wow, very colourful dish. I only know using the lotus root to make soup only, sure will make this dish once I have the lotus root.

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  7. BBO, thank you :)

    LCOM, you also love stir-fry lotus roots. They are really crunchy and sweet isn't it :)

    Choy, give this dish a try and I am sure you will like it.

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  8. love that the prep can be so simple and yet it comes out so gloriously colorful and pretty!

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  9. Looks very light and refreshing :]

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  10. Sarah, thank you for stopping by and your comment.

    Tarah, yes it is :)

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  11. Your dish looks perfect. We should all use more lotus root in our cooking.

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  12. Annie, not many people eat lotus root this way except for soup.

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  13. Hi. Is there a technique or can you provide me tips on how to thinly slice the lotus root? Mine always in big chunk.

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  14. Eugwend, a very sharp knife might help.

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