What Chinese dish has the most vegetables?
Szechuan style fish stew with pickled mustard greens. This is not a famous dish but I feel something like it is my responsibility to introduce this dish to Szechuan style food lovers. This dish belongs to the classic Shui Zhu dishes. As a sister dish to Szechuan style water boiled spicy fish, it is available in almost every Sichuan style restaurant inside China. I searched a lot concerning ...
What is the healthiest Chinese food to order?
With a lip-smacking taste of the Chinese cuisine, the dishes also come with lots of oil, salt and processed ingredients that are not good for health. No matter how delicious the food is, you cannot escape the unhealthy ingredients. In an interview with the ...
What Chinese food is healthiest?
Healthy Chinese food takeout sides include steamed brown rice, sautéed or steamed vegetables, spring rolls, soups, and veggie-based items like edamame, lettuce wraps, or salads.
What Chinese foods are fattening?
The Mediterranean-style diet, which emphasizes plenty of fruits, vegetables, nuts, whole grains and healthy fats, is catching on among Chinese food lovers. Even in the southwestern region where local cuisine is noted for distinctive spicy and pungent ...
What is the weird vegetable in Chinese food?
White Radish on Daikon (白萝卜 báiluóbo) Most people from other countries find these to be unusual because they are very big, sometimes three feet long, and they look like huge white carrots. It is a vegetable that most Westerners haven't eaten.Aug 23, 2021
What are common Chinese vegetables?
Here are the 10 most common vegetables you'll find eaten in China and how you can eat them.Chinese Cabbage (大白菜 dàbáicài) ... Bok Choy (小白菜 xiǎobáicài) ... Potatoes (土豆 tǔdòu) ... Cucumbers (黄瓜 huángguā) ... White Radish (白萝卜 báiluóbo) ... Chinese Eggplant (茄子 qiézi) ... Soybean Sprouts (黄豆芽 huángdòuyá) ... Peanuts (花生 huāshēng)More items...•Aug 23, 2021
What are the names of Chinese vegetables?
Now on to the glossary and list!Bok Choy (白菜)Shanghai Bok Choy (上海白菜)Dwarf Bok Choy (奶油白菜)Chinese Choy Sum (菜心) or Yu Choy（油菜）Chinese Water Spinach（空心菜）Chinese Spinach or Amaranth (苋菜)Chinese Napa Cabbage (大白菜)Taiwanese Cabbage.More items...
What is this Chinese vegetable?
Chinese vegetables include Chinese cabbage, bok choy, mustard greens, winter radish, snow peas, yard-long beans, and varieties of melons, eggplant and cucumbers, among others.Oct 21, 1999
What is the yellow vegetable in Chinese food?
daikonIn Asian cuisines, daikon is most commonly pickled and eaten as a side dish or added to main dishes grated, cubed, or in thin slices. When pickled, it gives off the notorious vibrant yellow color that some are accustomed to.
What is bok choy look like?
It's often referred to as a type of Chinese cabbage, but rather than forming dense, leafy heads like cabbage does, bok choy looks more like an exotic cousin of celery, with dark green leaves atop a cluster of thick stalks.Dec 13, 2014
What is the difference between baby bok choy and Shanghai bok choy?
Baby Bok Choy has white stalks and dark green, crinkly leaves with a more mineral taste. Shanghai Bok Choy has wide, jade-colored stalks shaped like soupspoons and light green smooth leaves with a more mild, celery-like flavor. Both can be used interchangeably.Jan 23, 2019
What is the difference between choy sum and bok choy?
Bok choy: Also known as pak choy or Chinese cabbage, it has dark-green leaves and a white stalk. Baby bok choy: The most common Chinese green, it is light green and usually sold in bunches of three. Choy sum: Produces small yellow flowers, which gives it its other name of Chinese flowering cabbage.
1. Chinese Cabbage (大白菜 dàbáicài)
Dried/pickled snow cabbage and chili is made into something similar to Korean kimchi in some parts of China.
2. Bok Choy (小白菜 xiǎobáicài)
This is also called Chinese cabbage in English like No. 1. But it looks quite different. It is green and smaller.
5. White Radish (白萝卜 báiluóbo)
This is one Asian vegetable that perhaps most Westerners haven't eaten. These huge white radishes or daikons look like super-large white carrots instead of the little round red radishes you've had.
6. Chinese Eggplant (茄子 qiézi)
Chinese eggplants are usually long with a purple skin. They are usually stir-fried with meat or with garlic sauce. One of the most famous Chinese eggplant dishes is braised eggplant.
7. Soybean Sprouts (黄豆芽 huángdòuyá)
Soybean sprouts are simply sprouted soybean seeds. They are rich in vitamins A, B, and C.
8. Peanuts (花生 huāshēng)
Peanuts are more common in meals than in China than in the West where it is eaten more often as a snack food.
9. Tomatoes (番茄 fānqié or 西红柿 xīhóngshì)
This common vegetable in Western cooking isn't used as often in Chinese cooking except in inland areas such as Xinjiang, Guilin, and Sichuan, but it rounds out this list of the top 10 vegetables.
1. Seaweed (海带 hǎidài)
This stringy type of green seaweed is only one of many varieties eaten in China.
2. Lotus Root (藕 ǒu)
What makes lotus root seem weird to most foreigners is that they've never seen a vegetable that looks like it. It is full of cylinders like the holes of a revolver pistol. It also has a unusual crunchy texture. It reminds one of eating somewhat raw potatoes.
3. Bitter Melon (苦瓜 kǔguā)
This green vegetable is reminiscent of a wrinkled old cucumber, but once you taste it, you'll find it distinctively bitter. But you can develop a taste for it.
4. Bamboo (竹子 zhúzi)
Even if you don't have bamboo growing in your country, you probably know it is useful for fishing poles and as a building material. But Chinese eat them too!
5. Chinese Yams - Meter-Long Roots (淮山 or 山药 or 淮山药 huáishānyào)
This wonderful yam-like root is often served in Chinese restaurants. If you've eaten something in China you thought were sliced white yams or potatoes, it might have been this. It is a great food.
6. White Radish on Daikon (白萝卜 báiluóbo)
Most people from other countries find these to be unusual because they are very big, sometimes three feet long, and they look like huge white carrots.
7. Yard-Long String Beans (豆角 dòujiǎo)
For some reason, some Chinese vegetables grow much bigger than their Western equivalent. Chinese long string beans are another super-big vegetable.
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The Health Benefits of White Vegetables
If you have been avoiding white vegetables in your diet, you are missing out on some powerful health benefits such as:
Cauliflower
With the growing popularity of vegan and gluten-free recipes, Cauliflower is big in the market right now. Given its versatile nature and delicate flavor profile that can be enhanced with a variety of spices, many innovative recipes use Cauliflower as a substitute for other ingredients.
Japanese White Sweet Potatoes
Japanese White Sweet Potatoes, also known as Satsumaimo in Japan, are a delicious fall vegetable often used in both sweet and savory dishes. They have a purple to red exterior with creamy white flesh that turns yellow when cooked.
White Eggplant
White eggplants vary in size and shape since they come in many varieties. Their outer skin is thin, smooth, and bright white while the inside is cream-colored. Compared to purple eggplants, white eggplants are much sweeter and have a lighter flavor. This is due to their thin skin since eggplants carry most of their bitterness in the skin.
Potatoes
Everyone’s favorite and one of the most popular vegetables in the world: the potato. The potato is a super versatile vegetable that shines regardless of how you prepare it and pairs well with many flavors. Aside from French fries, the potato by itself is low in calories and sodium.
White Carrot
White or golden carrots are a variety of carrots that were popular during the 19th century. They are a yellow or cream in color with a crisp texture. White carrots are often mistaken for parsnips but they are very different.
Garlic
Garlic is a pantry staple for many and is commonly used as seasoning. Not only is it a food staple but it also has many medicinal properties. Packed with flavor, Garlic cloves only contain a few calories. It tastes great and also has a variety of health benefits including lowering blood pressure, reducing heart disease risk as well as inflammation.
Bamboo Shoots (竹笋)
These are the tender shoots of the bamboo plant, before they turn into huge green stalks on which kung fu masters battle it out. We’re thinking of the movie “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” that was filmed in On Location in Hongcun. Edible bamboo shoots, zhú sǔn (竹笋) or simply sǔn (笋), fall into two broad categories: winter and spring shoots.
Bean Sprouts (豆芽)
There are two types of Chinese bean sprouts, dòu yá (豆芽) that you will see at your local market: mung bean sprouts and soybean sprouts. For either kind, avoid long, stringy, brown, or limp sprouts, as these are sure signs that the sprouts have been out on the supermarket floor for too long.
Snow Peas (荷兰豆)
Everyone knows what snow peas are, but did you know they were called hé lán dòu (荷兰豆) in Chinese? We use snow peas so often in our stir fries that we had to include it here.
Edamame aka Soy Beans (毛豆)
Most people know about edamame beans because they probably have had them as an appetizer at a Japanese restaurant. What many people don’t know about edamame is that it’s technically a type of soy bean or máo dòu (毛豆) in Chinese.
Fava Beans (蚕豆)
Fava beans, also known as broad beans or cán dòu (蚕豆), are not very common nor popular in both western and Asian cooking. However, they have their own unique flavor and texture and, when prepared properly, they are very tasty. In Chinese cooking, fava beans are used for spicy douban sauce and also used to make noodles.
Chinese Long Beans (豇豆)
Chinese Long beans, sometimes called snake beans are also called “yardlong beans” because they can grow up to three feet long. These beans are immature cow pea pods (related to the black-eyed pea).
Bitter Melon (balsam pear) – (苦瓜)
Bitter melon is a curious summer gourd with light green, thick ridged, bumpy skin, this melon has a strong bitter flavor that some–well many–don’t enjoy too much. Bitter melon goes by a couple of Chinese names including kǔ guā (苦瓜), a literal translation of “bitter melon” but it also goes by the name of liáng guā (凉瓜) or “cool melon”.
1. Opo Squash
Alternate Names: Nam tao, bottle gourd, cucuzza squash, calabash, yugao, long squash, bau, Italian edible gourd, New Guinea bean, Tasmania bean, snake gourd, po gua, kwa kwa, upo, dudi
2. Taro Root
Alternate Names: Cocoyam, arrow root, kalo, dasheen, sato imo, gabi, patra, woo tau
3. Lotus Root
Characteristics: The lotus root looks like a chain of giant pods connected to one another. Crunchy, with a tinge of sweetness, the vegetable can be prepared in a variety of ways—fried, sautéed, steamed, boiled—without losing its firmness, making it an ideal snappy texture for dishes such as salads.
4. Daikon Radish
Characteristics: A daikon radish should be free of blemishes and not soft and pliable. In Korea, cubed daikon radish is used to make kkakdugi, a type of kimchi. Its mild taste makes it an excellent palate cleanser. In Japan, strings of daikon marinated in vinegar typically accompany sashimi.
5. Japanese Eggplant
Characteristics: This particular variety of eggplant is longer, thinner-skinned, and has a more uniform thickness than other eggplant varieties, which are often round and bulbous. Japanese eggplants tend to taste sweet and mild but will still turn more bitter as they get older, so try to use them as soon as you purchase them.
6. Lemongrass
Alternate Names: Citronella grass, bhustrina, sere, fever grass, hierba de limón, serai, takrai
7. Napa Cabbage
Alternate Names: Chinese cabbage, celery cabbage, baechu, Peking cabbage, hakusai, michihli
