Snow Peas With Chinese Sausage
Chinese sausage Snow peas is a great easy to cook recipe that you can prepare for your family in a few minutes. Its an Asian recipe but mostly cooked by many other non Asian homesteads. Snow peas with Chinese sausage is a good way of showcasing your spring to summer snow peas produce.
Snow Peas With Chinese Sausage Ingredients
1 Cup Snow Peas
1 tbsp minced garlic
1 tbsp minced ginger
Half Medium sized white sweet onion
2 tbsp cooking oil
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp brown sugar
1 tbsp Oyster Sauce
2 Lap Cheong (Chinese Sausage)
You can substitute the Chinese Sausage with spicy Italian pork sausage or this pork sausage Andouille.
Frequently asked question:
1. Do I need to soak the Chinese sausage before cooking?
You do not need to soak the sausage before you cook it, if its thawed you could cut into bite size pieces and stir fry. However, I prefer to boil the Lap Cheong before I make the snap peas with Chinese sausage as this makes it extra tender for my kids to enjoy.
2. Do you remove the skin from the Chinese sausage?
The skin on the Chinese sausage is tasteless and you do not lose any nutrients by removing it. It can easily come out if you boil the sausage prior to stir frying.
3. How long does it take to cook lap Cheong?
For this recipe, it will take an average of 25 minutes from preparation to serving the meal. 3 Minutes wash time for snow peas, onion, ginger and garlic, 2 minutes mincing the garlic and ginger, 1 minute cutting the lap cheong into small pieces, 10 minutes boiling the lap cheong and 9 minutes stir frying the entire recipe.
Where to find snow peas in grocery store or online
Snow peas are regarded as a cold weather crop, they are sold in large quantities at peak season which is spring or early summer. During this period they are cheaper in price and you can easily find them in grocery stores at the vegetables section. They are readily packed for you, alternatively, pack and weigh the quantity that you need.
Snow peas are also found online. Sometimes, you can substitute snow peas for sugar snap peas that can be found in wholefoods store or you can have them delivered to you at your door step by shopping here. Once you shop from the Amazon shop, I get a commission that helps support my blog.
Lap Cheong (Chinese Sausage)
Lap Cheong is a Chinese sausage that you can use in your fried recipes. To begin with, you can buy the sausage from Amazon or any Asian grocery store. It is a dried, pork sausage that is usually sweetened and seasoned with soy sauce and rice wine. The sausages have a sweet-savory taste but the taste depends on the ingredients used.
The preparation is quick easy, even if the sausage is dried, all you need to do is cut it into bite size pieces and then boil it for 5 minutes or until tender to your liking. You can boil before you cut but this will add into your cooking time since you will want it to cool down to cut into pieces before you stir fry it.
SNOW PEAS WITH CHINESE SAUSAGE: RECIPE INSTRUCTIONS
Heat your pan on medium low heat and add in the oil. Saute the garlic, ginger and onion for one minute.
Add in the snow peas and cook while tossing until for about 2 minutes.
Pro tip for this step, remove the string running on the snow peas prior to cooking.
Put in the sausage, sugar, soy and oyster sauce and mix well; you can add two table spoon of water. The snow peas should be have a translucent green color and crunchy at the same time.
This is an easy recipe that you can make as a side dish. It works for me as easy fix dinner on a week night.
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