Stir-Fried Spinach
Tender, dark-green stir-fried spinach—simple and easy to prepare at home.
Ingredients
spinach (remove yellow leaves, trim root hairs, wash, cut into 1-inch pieces)
500 g
cooking oil
50 g
white sugar
10 g
soy sauce (or salt 20 g)
40 g
MSG
10
chopped scallions
10 g
Sichuan peppercorns
10
Instructions
1
Prepare Spinach
First, remove yellow leaves from the spinach, trim root hairs, wash thoroughly, and cut into 1-inch pieces with a straight knife.
2
Fry Aromatics
Place the wok over high heat, pour in the cooking oil and heat to 90% (nearly smoking), add Sichuan peppercorns and fry until a faint blue smoke appears, then add chopped scallions.
3
Stir-Fry
Immediately add the spinach and stir-fry for about half a minute until it is almost cooked, then add soy sauce and white sugar, stir-fry briefly, finally add MSG, remove from heat and serve on a plate.