Konichiwa
Welcome to Mrs. Lin’s Kitchen
Today, I’m going to show you how to make
Yasai Itame
Yasai means vegetables
and itame means stir fry in Japanese
It’s a common home dish
but you can also find it in a teishoku
or set-meal type of a restaurant
it’s super easy to make
and you can easily make it in less than 30 minutes
so let me show you how to make it now
Here is the ingredients overview
The measurement I provided
is good for two people when you serve with rice
Since majority of the ingredients are veggies,
this dish is quite healthy
I used a combination of string beans,
bell pepper and snap peas
but you can just use one cup of either one of them
Make sure you thoroughly rinse
and dry all the veggies before using
You can easily make it vegan or vegetarian
by substituting meat with tofu
and omitting the oyster sauce
Just make sure you add more soy sauce
to your taste
Other vegetables that can be used
are napa cabbage,
chinese chives,
mushrooms,
broccoli and baby corns
For the meat, you can choose between chicken,
beef or pork
Let’s prepare the ingredients now
Thinly slice the yellow onion
Peel the carrot skin
before cutting it diagonally into thin slices.
I use about half of a carrot
Next, thinly slice the green bell pepper
If you use snap peas,
remove the stem,
then pull the string with it and cut them in half
Also do the same for the green beans
and cut them into 2” long
Peel the ginger skin
and cut 8 to 9 thin slices
Thinly slice the garlic clove
Chop the cabbage leaves into bite-sized pieces
I have about 4 or 5 leaves here
Lastly, cut the pork belly slices to about 2” long
The key for a good stir-fried dish
is to work fast when you’re stir frying
Therefore, all the ingredients need to be prepped
and ready to go into the pan
Let’s stir fry now
Turn the heat on medium-high or high
depending on your stove
Heat up 1 tbsp of oil
Then, add the ginger
and garlic
Stir fry until fragrant
Next, add sliced yellow onion
and continue to stir fry for another minute
Ideally, any stir-fried dish will
taste better when cooked in a wok
But not everybody owns one so
I’m stir-frying in a regular pan today to demonstrate
Your yasai itame will still taste delicious
Add the pork belly
and cook until it’s no longer pink
Pork belly is a fattier cut
Therefore, I didn’t add a lot of oil in the beginning
The fat released from the pork belly
will be enough to stir fry everything
Next, add the carrot
You want to add the veggies
that take longer to cook in first
Stir continuously
Then add the green beans
Add snap peas and bell pepper
to the mix and stir for a few seconds
Lastly, add the cabbage
And bean sprouts
For the seasoning,
add the soy sauce
oyster sauce
and salt
Keep stirring
You can adjust the salt according to your liking
The entire stir-frying process
takes me between 6 to 8 minutes
You want the vegetables cooked
but still crunchy, not soft and wilted
Turn off the heat
and transfer yasai itame into a serving plate
Stir-frying is not hard
It might take you a couple of try
to produce that optimum texture like in the restaurant
Stir-fried vegetables are best served immediately
with hot steamy rice
Enjoy!
so here is the yasai itame
if you’re looking for something quick and easy
that you can whip up during the weekdays,
this is a good choice
I hope you try it out
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