MIX VEGETABLE AND BARLEY STIR-FRY IN KETCHUP OYSTER SAUCE
Napolitan spaghetti, chicken rice…In Japanese cooking, we often use tomato ketchup to add sweet and tangy sour flavor. This Japanese-inspired veggie stir-fry is super easy to make and quick. No need to make a stir-fry sauce! Clean up your fridge to make this sweet savory vegetable stir fry. You can change ingredients whatever you have. *I added barley because my husband needs to improve his digestion system.
Ingredients
- ¼ green cabbage, chopped into bite-size pieces
- 1 carrot, sliced
- 14 oz bok choy 3 large leaves
- 3 mini sweet red peppers, sliced
- ⅓ cup cooked barley
- 1 clove of garlic, minced
- 1 TSP minced ginger
- hot chili pepper, minced *optionally
- 1 tbsp Japanese sake or white wine
- ½ TSP salt
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1-2 tbsp cooking oil
For Stir-fry sauce
- ¼ cup ketchup
- 2 tbsp oyster sauce
- 1 TSP gochujang
Instructions
- Prepare ingredients. For bok choy, divide into the white part and green part. Chop separately into bite-size pieces. *Slicing the white part along the grain keeps a better crunchy texture and less water in the dish.
- In the skillet, add oil and minced garlic, ginger, and hot chili peppers. Cook them until fragrant over medium heat.
- Add sliced carrots, mini sweet peppers, and sliced white parts of bok choy. Stir the ingredients for 30 seconds, over medium-high heat.
- Add chopped cabbage, then, sprinkle ½ TSP of salt. Stir the ingredients, and add 1 tbsp of Japanese sake or white wine. Immediately, place the lid and continue cooking for 1 minute.*Adding salt enhances umami flavor in vegetables and reduces cooking time.
- Add the stir-fry sauce. (tomato ketchup, oyster sauce, and gochujang, and you don't need to mix them in advance ), green parts of bok choy, and cooked barley. It might be better to make an empty space and dissolve Gochujang first.
- Continue stirring them and cook until your favorite tenderness.
- *You can add a dash of soy sauce if desired.
- Serve and enjoy!
Notes
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Napolitan is a must-try unique Japanese noodle dish for both Japanophiles and anime lovers. Spaghetti with Ketchup sounds a little weird but you want to try it! My hubby (who is from the US) like the dish despite he doesn’t know the sauce is made of ketchup. (if he finds out the truth, he would not eat it again. Most popular comfort lunch and retro Kissaten menu. Add your favorite Japanese food recipe with tasty coffee. Savory Classic Napolitan recipe without soggy noodles and bland sauce. Makes this famous unique comfort Japanese tomato ketchup spaghetti perfectly at home. This recipe is very flexible, so you are free to add additional ingredients according to taste.