Recipe: Sunchoke chop suey
I realized my lunch was seriously lacking vegetables. Eating vegetables and lots of them make you full - therefore making lunch cheap, easy and healthy! Less need for carbs and fatty meats like I've been consuming too much of lately.
Thanks to the comments and to Karen for the tip on that Food Reference site I successfully cooked brown rice in the rice cooker. It was nice and fluffy. Brown rice was the base of my lunch. Next I went to work on the vegetables.
Last Saturday I went to the Ferry Building Farmer's Market. I usually browse and keep my wallet close at hand. It's known as the tourist farmers market. Their prices are usually double or triple what's conventional.
But I was in search of Jerusalem artichokes or sunchokes. I met a very nice old couple at the Portland Farmers Market while I was visiting. The man used to study botany and asked me if I was a diabetic. (random!) But he told me about sunchokes and the benefits of this wonderful root vegetable. This is the only vegetable that produces a sugar diabetics can digest.
I set out to find them. They were $5/pound at Whole Foods, at Trader Joe's, it was 16 oz for $2.99 in a plastic container and after checking out the back of the market, I found the vegetables! They were $2/pound, no plastic or anything. I couldn't believe my luck!
I picked up a pound. So along with my bag of bok choy ($1) and smoked Harry & David sausage (I stole that from my parents' house last time), there was my sunchoke chop suey. I think it's healthier than regular Chinese chop suey too! Total cost: $3 and I've got enough for a few days.
Directions:
Wash and scrub the sunchokes a few times. They're root vegetables and watch out for dirt or mud that's stuck to the outer skin.
Chop them into cube-sized pieces and set them aside.
Wash a bunch of bok choy and chop into 1/2 length. Watch for dirt on the stems and cut off any yellow parts of ones with holes.
Once the oil's hot, throw the sunchokes in and saute for 15-20 minutes. Trust me, it takes more than 5 minutes for these vegetables to cook. They're just as good raw but better cooked. Throw in some salt and pepper. Test a piece after 15 minutes. Once it's cooked, it'll taste crisp.
Now throw in the bok choy and let it broil for 5 minutes. Once the bok choy turns green, dinner is ready.
So not quite $3, more like $3.5? Still it's cheap and healthy. Lunch is served!
Thanks to the comments and to Karen for the tip on that Food Reference site I successfully cooked brown rice in the rice cooker. It was nice and fluffy. Brown rice was the base of my lunch. Next I went to work on the vegetables.
Last Saturday I went to the Ferry Building Farmer's Market. I usually browse and keep my wallet close at hand. It's known as the tourist farmers market. Their prices are usually double or triple what's conventional.
But I was in search of Jerusalem artichokes or sunchokes. I met a very nice old couple at the Portland Farmers Market while I was visiting. The man used to study botany and asked me if I was a diabetic. (random!) But he told me about sunchokes and the benefits of this wonderful root vegetable. This is the only vegetable that produces a sugar diabetics can digest.
I set out to find them. They were $5/pound at Whole Foods, at Trader Joe's, it was 16 oz for $2.99 in a plastic container and after checking out the back of the market, I found the vegetables! They were $2/pound, no plastic or anything. I couldn't believe my luck!
I picked up a pound. So along with my bag of bok choy ($1) and smoked Harry & David sausage (I stole that from my parents' house last time), there was my sunchoke chop suey. I think it's healthier than regular Chinese chop suey too! Total cost: $3 and I've got enough for a few days.
Directions:
Wash and scrub the sunchokes a few times. They're root vegetables and watch out for dirt or mud that's stuck to the outer skin.
Chop them into cube-sized pieces and set them aside.
Wash a bunch of bok choy and chop into 1/2 length. Watch for dirt on the stems and cut off any yellow parts of ones with holes.
Once the oil's hot, throw the sunchokes in and saute for 15-20 minutes. Trust me, it takes more than 5 minutes for these vegetables to cook. They're just as good raw but better cooked. Throw in some salt and pepper. Test a piece after 15 minutes. Once it's cooked, it'll taste crisp.
Now throw in the bok choy and let it broil for 5 minutes. Once the bok choy turns green, dinner is ready.
So not quite $3, more like $3.5? Still it's cheap and healthy. Lunch is served!
posted by SF Money Musings at
9:10 PM
4 Comments:
Great recipe! If I find suncokes, I might have to try it out!
I'm glad those tips worked. Next time I make brown rice I'll use the tips for it. I've only made (and eaten) brown rice 2-3 times and it's been as a base for Vegetarian Feijoada so I have been able to hide that it might not be cooked perfectly.
Maybe you can help me out with something…? I want to order all of my food online from now on because of various reasons, but I don’t know where to go for quality food. I have tried 2 companies so far, Fresh Dining, and and Celebrity Foods, but I wanna get others I can try out. Do you know of any? The main thing I’ve ordered so far is steak. I guess you can say, I’m a steak junkie. LOL!!! From what I have found out (from what I have ordered so far) I think I am able to regulate the quality of beef I buy. I hate going to a store and getting that crappy slab of beef that I have to cut down until there is like nothing left. Hahaha!!!! (its so true though) Anyhow, sorry that I made this comment so long. If you can help me out or point me in a direction where I might find more quality foods online, I would greatly appreciate it. Have a good day or night! (depending on when you read this) LOL!!!!
LEO: I don't live in LA but from the reviews I gathered on Yelp and online, Fresh Dining doesn't look too bad. In all honesty, I find cooking is cheaper and healthier.
I sauteed a bunch of kale with onions and garlic and mixed in a can of kidney beans. I've been eating that the last few days and it keeps you full. Good luck!
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