Sprout tops with Sesame Seeds and Oyster Sauce

Name: Sprout tops with Sesame Seeds and Oyster Sauce
Yield: enough for 4 as a side dish
Ingredients: garlic – 2 cloves; ginger – a 2-ounce (60g) knob; peanut oil – 2 tablespoons; oyster sauce – 3 tablespoons; rice wine – 3 tablespoons; soy sauce – 1 tablespoon; sugar – a pinch; sprout tops – a large handful; sesame seeds – 1 teaspoon

December 14, 2011

Sprout tops share a luxury of growth and strong flavor with many of the Asian greens. One cold day in November I married them to an impromptu sauce of essentially Chinese ingredients. It worked. The tricky bit was working out what, in future, they needed to share a plate with. A slice of ham steak; a piece of lamb’s liver; a fillet of mackerel, its skin crisped on the grill; a pile of sticky rice with some finely sliced air-dried sausages; a grilled mushroom the size of a saucer. All will work. Eminently.

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