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Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Garlic Chinese Spinach (Polonchay) with Century Eggs
This simple recipe can be cooked in less than 10 minutes. You can purchase the Chinese spinach (polonchay) and Century eggs at any oriental food store and you can add vegetables of your choice if you want.
You will need a can of chicken stock heated in a pan with a few drops of sesame oil and at least 5 cloves of peeled garlic. Bring to a boil and mix the polonchay in the pan and cover for a minute. Chop 2 century eggs into 3/4 of an inch sizes as shown in the photo and place in the pan along with 2 eggs, beaten and stir. Add some fish sauce or salt and pepper to taste and serve.
This is one good recipe.I wonder however if polonchay is the other name of spinach? These vegies look almost the same.
ReplyDeletepolunchay is also known as chinese spinach, and believe to have twice the iron content of the western type.
ReplyDeleteBecause of the oxalate present in spinach half of the iron is not available for humans. Better source of iron is broccoli
ReplyDeleteWhere can i buy polonchay vegetable?
ReplyDeleteHello. You can purchase polonchay from Livegreen International Incorporated. Tel 705-1956; 412-0169. website: www.livegreen.ph
Deletejust cooked this yesterday. it's delicious.
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