Best Bok Choy And Chicken Recipes

BOK CHOY AND CHICKEN SOUP

Steps:

• Combine broth, water, celery, scallion whites, garlic, ginger, and chile in a medium saucepan; bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat to medium, add chicken, and cook at a bare simmer until a thermometer inserted into thickest part of meat reaches 160 degrees, about 13 minutes. Remove chicken from broth. When cool enough to handle, tear into 1-inch pieces and divide among 4 bowls.
• Meanwhile, add bok choy to broth. Simmer until just tender, about 5 minutes. Stir in fish sauce; season with salt. Ladle soup over chicken and sprinkle with scallion greens. Serve with lime wedges.

CHICKEN AND BOK CHOY SOUP

Steps:

• Heat vegetable oil in a large stockpot over medium heat; cook and stir onion and garlic in the hot oil until onion is softened and translucent, about 10 minutes. Add water, chicken base, potatoes, carrots, bok choy, and celery; bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer until vegetables are slightly tender, about 10 minutes. Add chicken; continue simmering until chicken is no longer pink in the center, about 10 minutes.

GRILLED CHICKEN WITH BOK CHOY, SHIITAKE MUSHROOMS, AND RADISHES

Steps:

• Arrange all vegetables on large rimmed baking sheet. Brush vegetables lightly on both sides with 1/3 cup Mango-Sesame Dressing; sprinkle with salt and pepper.
• Arrange chicken on sheet of foil. Brush both sides of chicken with 1/3 cup dressing, then sprinkle with salt and pepper.
• Do ahead
• Vegetables and chicken can be prepared 2 hours ahead. Let stand at room temperature.
• Coat grill rack generously with nonstick spray and prepare barbecue (medium-high heat). Grill vegetables until just tender, turning occasionally, about 8 minutes for onion rounds and 4 minutes for mushrooms, radishes, bok choy, and pepper strips. Return all vegetables to same baking sheet.
• Grill chicken until cooked through, 5 to 6 minutes per side. Transfer chicken to cutting board. Let stand 5 to 10 minutes. Cool 2 chicken breasts; wrap and chill for Noodle Salad.
• Arrange remaining 4 chicken breasts and vegetables on platter. Serve with remaining dressing.
• Editor's note: This recipe has been updated as a part of our archive repair project.

CHICKEN, BOK CHOY AND SHIITAKE CHOW MEIN

Steps:

• In a large bowl, dissolve the cornstarch in the shaoxing. Mix in the oyster sauce, ginger scallions, pepper and sambal. Mix in the chicken and marinate for at least 2-hours, preferably overnight. In a hot wok coated with oil, add the garlic and shiitakes and stir-fry for 4 minutes until the mushrooms are soft. Set mushrooms aside and in the same wok, add the chicken and cook for 6 to 8 minutes. Add the stock and season with salt and pepper. Add the bok choy and cook another 3 minutes. Add back the shiitakes and the noodles. Completely coat and heat the noodles. Check for seasoning.

CHICKEN AND BOK CHOY SOUP

Steps:

• Chop the onion and garlic in the food processor.
• Fry the onion and garlic in the oil.
• Chop the chicken breast into cubes and then add to the food processor and pulse to get ground/minced chicken. Alternatively, you can buy chicken mince and chop the onion finely. I like to know what has gone into my chicken mince!
• Add to the onion and stir to brown the chicken.
• Add the vegetable stock (you could use chicken stock if you have it), a good pinch of salt, grind of pepper and the soy sauce.
• Twist the leaves off the Bok Choy (I find that easier and quicker than chopping them).
• Rinse any dirt off the ribs and chop coarsely. Add to the soup.
• Simmer for 10 minutes.
• Roughly chop the leaves and add to the soup.
• Simmer for another 2 minutes.
• Serve.

CHICKEN, SHIITAKE AND BOK CHOY SOUP

Steps:

• Bring broth, mushrooms and ginger to boil in large pot. Reduce heat and simmer 3 minutes. Add fish sauce, soy sauce, sesame oil and chili oil and simmer 2 minutes. Add bok choy and simmer until bok choy is tender, about 2 minutes. Stir in rice vinegar. Season soup to taste with salt and pepper.
• Ladle soup into bowls. Sprinkle with green onions and serve.
• *Available at Asian markets and in the Asian foods section of many supermarkets.

COLD-SMOKED CHICKEN WITH BABY BOK CHOY AND CASHEW SALAD

Steps:

• Blanch bok choy in a 4- to 6-quart pot of boiling salted water until just wilted but still bright green, about 30 seconds. Drain in a colander, then rinse under cold water to stop cooking and drain well.
• Whisk together vinegar, soy sauce, hoisin sauce, pepper, and five-spice powder in a small bowl, then add oils in a slow stream, whisking until combined. Stir in sesame seeds.
• Toss together chicken, cucumber, cilantro, and 1/3 cup dressing in a bowl.
• Divide bok choy among 4 serving bowls and spoon chicken salad on top. Drizzle with some of remaining dressing and sprinkle with cashews. Transfer remaining dressing to an airtight container and chill for another use.

ASIAN CHICKEN SALAD WITH SNAP PEAS AND BOK CHOY

Steps:

• Fill medium skillet with salted water; bring to boil. Add chicken breasts, cilantro sprigs, and whole green onion; reduce heat to medium and poach chicken until just cooked through, about 20 minutes. Using tongs, transfer chicken to plate; cool. Add snap peas to same skillet; increase heat to high and cook until crisp-tender, about 1 minute.
• Drain; rinse snap peas under cold water to cool. Discard whole green onion and cilantro sprigs. Coarsely shred chicken. Toss chicken, chopped cilantro, chopped green onions, snap peas, and next 3 ingredients in large bowl. Whisk ponzu, vinegar, oil, and ginger in small bowl. Add dressing to salad; toss to coat. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
• * Available in the Asian foods section of some supermarkets and at Asian markets.

CHICKEN, MUSHROOM, AND BOK CHOY KEBABS

Steps:

• Marinate chicken:
• Mince and mash garlic to a paste with a pinch of salt.
• Boil soy sauce, Sherry, and brown sugar in a small saucepan over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until reduced to about 2/3 cup, 5 to 7 minutes. Stir in garlic paste, ginger, and sesame oil, then cool to room temperature.
• Pour half of marinade into a large sealable bag and chill remainder for basting. Add chicken to bag and marinate, chilled, turning bag occasionally, at least 3 hours.
• Make kebabs:
• Prepare grill for direct-heat cooking over medium-hot charcoal (medium-high heat for gas).
• Meanwhile, halve bok choy lengthwise and blanch in a large pot of boiling salted water (2 Tbsp salt for 5 qt water) until crisp-tender, about 2 minutes. Immediately transfer with tongs to an ice bath to stop cooking. Pat bok choy very dry, then, bending leaves, thread 3 or 4 halves (through bulb and leaves) onto each of 3 or 4 skewers. Put on a tray.
• Toss mushrooms with vegetable oil. Thread mushrooms (through sides) and chicken (discard marinade) onto remaining skewers, alternating them. Put on another tray.
• Oil grill rack, then grill chicken-and-mushroom skewers, covered only if using a gas grill, 6 minutes. Turn over and baste with some of remaining marinade, then grill, turning and basting occasionally (but not during last 3 minutes), until chicken is just cooked through and mushrooms are tender, 6 to 8 minutes more.
• Lightly brush bok choy with oil and grill, covered only if using a gas grill, turning once, until grill marks appear, about 2 minutes total.

ASIAN BOK CHOY AND CHICKEN SALAD OVER RICE

Steps:

• Mix oil, vinegar, sugar, and soy sauce together in a lidded jar for the dressing; put lid on tightly and shake well. Set dressing aside.
• Combine bok choy, green onions, and carrots in a large bowl.
• For the marinade combine soy sauce, olive oil, honey, ginger, and garlic in a small microwave-safe bowl. Heat marinade in the microwave for 1 minute. Stir and heat again for 30 seconds. Place chicken in a large bowl and pour marinade on top; allow to marinate for 15 minutes.
• Heat a large skillet over medium heat. Pour chicken and marinade into the skillet and cook 20 minutes. Add bok choy salad and dressing. Continue cooking until chicken is no longer pink inside, about 10 minutes more. Serve over a bed of rice.

GINGER-SESAME CHICKEN WITH BOK CHOY, ONION AND MUSHROOMS

Steps:

• In a medium bowl, combine the chicken broth with soy sauce, wine, sugar, dissolved cornstarch and water, sesame oil and crushed red pepper. Whisk until smooth.
• In a large skillet, heat 2 t. oil until hot and add the onion wedges. Cook for about 6 minutes. Add mushrooms and continue to cook for another 6 minutes. Transfer onion and mushrooms to a plate.
• Add another 2 t. oil to the skillet and season chicken with salt and pepper and add to the skillet and cook over med. high heat until golden about 4 minute each side. Transfer to the plate with onions and mushrooms.
• Add 1 T. oil to the skillet and add the bok choy and red pepper pieces. Cook on medium high heat until crisp tender about 3 minutes. Transfer to the plate with the onion, mushrooms, and chicken.
• Add the remaining oil to the skillet and cook the ginger and garlic until fragrant about 1 minute. Return the chicken and vegetables to the skillet. Whisk the sauce in the bowl, and add to the skillet. Bring to a boil and simmer stirring until slightly thickened, about 1 minute. Transfer to bowls and serve.

SLOW COOKER CHICKEN RAMEN WITH BOK CHOY AND MISO

Steps:

• Put the chicken legs in a 5- to 8-quart slow cooker, and crumble the miso on top. Add the scallions, garlic cloves, shiitake mushrooms (if using) and 6 cups water. Stir well to combine. Cook until the chicken is tender, at least 4 hours and up to 6 hours on low. If it's more convenient, you can let the slow cooker switch to warm after 6 hours. The soup will hold on warm for about another 2 hours before the chicken begins to dry out.
• Switch the heat to high. With a slotted spoon, remove the chicken, scallions, garlic and shiitakes, and place in a bowl. Set aside to cool. Stir in kombu, bok choy, tamari and mirin. Cover and let cook until the bok choy is wilted and tender, 5 to 10 minutes. Remove and discard the kombu. Coarsely shred chicken meat into the soup, discarding the skin, bone, scallions, garlic and shiitakes. Taste the soup and whisk in a few more spoonfuls of miso or tamari, if desired.
• Divide the noodles among 4 or 5 bowls, and ladle the soup on top. Top each with sliced scallion, a halved soft boiled egg, sesame seeds and a piece of nori.

CHILI CHICKEN STIR-FRY WITH ASPARAGUS AND BOK CHOY

Steps:

• Combine the first eight ingredients in a glass bowl, add the chicken, mix.
• Cover and refrigerate for several hours or overnight.
• Snap off the tough ends of the asparagus, discard, cut asparagus in approx 1 ½ inch pieces.
• Cook, steam or microwave the asparagus until just tender, rinse under cold water, drain.
• Now drain the chicken from the marinade, reserve the marinade.
• Heat one tablespoon of oil in the wok and stir-fry the onions until going soft, remove.
• Heat the rest of the oil, stir-fry the chicken until just browned, add marinade, simmer for approx 10 minutes, until tender, probably less when you use chicken breast, stir now and then.
• Add the onion, asparagus and bok choy, cook until heated through and the bok choy starts to wilt (this won’t be long).
• Transfer to a serving dish and sprinkle on the green onions….

SESAME RED CURRY CHICKEN WITH BOK CHOY AND SWEET COCONUT RICE

Steps:

• Arrange bok choy and red pepper in bottom of slow cooker. Season 4 chicken breast halves all over with salt and black pepper and place on top of bok choy.
• In a small bowl, whisk together broth, sake, sesame oil, ginger, and curry paste. Pour mixture over chicken. Cover and cook on LOW for 6 to 8 hours or HIGH for 3 to 4 hours.
• In a small skillet toast flaked coconut on low heat until lightly toasted, about 5 to 8 minutes. To a medium saucepan, add rice and coconut milk and set pan over medium-high heat, bring to a simmer for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and let stand 5 minutes. Stir in toasted coconut. Set aside 1 1/2 cups for another recipe.
• Spoon rice onto a serving platter. Top with chicken, bok choy, bell peppers and sauce from slow cooker. Garnish with cilantro.

CHICKEN WITH BOK CHOY AND MUSHROOMS

Steps:

• combine honey, soy sauce, sherry, 5-spice, ginger, garlic, salt and pepper and creyene pepper with the oil in a small jug.
• place chicken in a med bowl with half of the honey mixture, toss to coat chicken in the marinade, cover, refrigerate for 10 minute.
• meanwhile cook mushrooms and bok choy, in batches, on a heated oiled grill plate (or barbecue) until just tender. cover to keep warm.
• drain chicken but keep the marinaded honey.
• cook chicken on the same oiled plate until browned on both sides. cover and stand for 5 min, then slice thickly.
• meanwhile, combine the remaining honey mixture in a small saucepan with the stock.
• bring to the boil, stir in blended cornflour with the water, cook stirring, until sauce boils and thickens slightly.
• divide mushrooms and bok choy among serving plates, top with chicken and pour over the sauce.

BOK CHOY AND CHICKEN

Steps:

• Wash bok choy very well.
• Slice across the leaf at about 1/2 inch intervals.
• Discard the bottom when you get to the part with no green on it.
• Drain thoroughly.
• Chop chicken breasts into 1/2 to 1 inch chunks.
• Heat oil in a wok or large, high-sided frying pan with a lid over medium heat.
• When oil is hot, add garlic.
• Saute for a few seconds, then add chicken.
• Saute until slightly browned all over (no pink showing on the outside).
• Add bok choy and stir-fry for about half a minute, until just wilted.
• Add soy sauce and sherry.
• Cover and cook until chicken is done; about 10 to 15 minutes.
• Serve over steamed white rice with soy sauce or teriyaki sauce.

CASHEW CHICKEN AND BABY BOK CHOY

Steps:

• In a small bowl, blend together chicken stock, sherry, soy sauce and cornstarch.
• If cashews are raw: Heat I Tbsp peanut oil in a large skillet.
• Add cashews and cook over moderate heat, stirring, until lightly browned, about 1 minute.
• Using a slotted spoon, transfer the nuts to a plate.
• Leave remaining oil in pan.
• If cashews are roasted and salted, skip to next step.
• Add 1 Tbsp peanut oil to pan.
• Add the white part of the green onions, the ginger, garlic and peppercorns.
• Cook, stirring, for 1 minute.
• Add the sauce.
• Place chicken in a single layer in the skillet and season with salt and pepper.
• Arrange the bok choy in a layer over the chicken.
• Cover and cook until the chicken is cooked through and the bok choy is tender, 5 to 7 minutes.
• Thicken with additional mixture of cornstarch and cold water (1 tsp of each).
• Transfer the chicken, bok choy and sauce to serving platter.
• Garnish with the greens of onions, cashews and serve with steamed rice.

CHICKEN THIGHS WITH BOK CHOY AND FARRO

Steps:

• Heat broth in a small pot to boiling. Add farro and reduce to low heat. Cook, stirring occasionally, until liquid is absorbed, 10 to 15 minutes.
• Heat oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add garlic and ginger, stirring occasionally, until fragrant, about 1 minute. Add chicken and let sit to brown, about 5 minutes. Add jalapeno and the juice from 1 lime wedge. Cook, stirring occasionally, until chicken is no longer pink, 5 to 10 minutes more.
• Add bok choy and water to the skillet. Cook until bok choy is slightly reduced in size, 1 to 3 minutes. Add cooked farro and juice of remaining lime wedge, stirring until well mixed. Season with salt, pepper, cumin, and sesame seeds. Cook until flavors have combined, 1 to 2 minutes more.

CHICKEN STIR FRY WITH KALE AND BOK CHOY

Steps:

• 1. In a large bowl, stir together the egg white, cornstarch, 1 1/2 teaspoons of the rice wine or sherry, salt to taste and 1 1/2 teaspoons water. When you can no longer see any cornstarch, add the chicken and stir together until coated. Cover the bowl and place in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. 2. Bring 2 to 3 quarts of water to a rolling boil in a large saucepan and add the kale. Boil 1 minute, until just tender, and transfer to a bowl of cold water. Do not drain the water from the pot. Drain the kale, squeeze out excess water and chop coarsely. 3. Combine the remaining rice wine, the stock and the soy sauce in a small bowl and set near your wok. 4. Bring the water in the pot back to a boil, add 1 tablespoon of the oil and turn the heat down so that the water is at a bare simmer. Carefully add the chicken to the water, stirring so that the pieces don't clump. Cook until the chicken turns opaque on the surface but is not cooked through, about 1 minute. Drain well in a colander. 5. Heat a 14-inch flat-bottomed wok or 12-inch steel skillet over high heat until a drop of water evaporates within a second or two when added to the pan. Swirl in the remaining oil by adding it to the sides of the pan and swirling the pan, then add the garlic, ginger and red pepper flakes and stir-fry for no more than 10 seconds. Add the white and light green pieces of scallions, the brussels sprouts and the red pepper and stir-fry for 2 minutes. Add the bok choy and stir-fry for another minute. Add the chicken, the kale and the broth mixture. Sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste and stir-fry until the chicken is cooked through, 1 to 2 minutes. Sprinkle on the green scallion ends. Remove from the heat and serve with grains or noodles.

STEAMED CHICKEN WITH BLACK MUSHROOMS AND BOK CHOY

Steps:

• Soak shiitakes in boiling-hot water in a bowl until softened, about 30 minutes. Cut out and discard stems, then squeeze excess liquid from caps and discard soaking liquid.
• Hack each chicken thigh crosswise through bone into thirds with cleaver.
• Stir together soy sauce, rice wine, cornstarch, sesame oil, and salt in a large bowl until smooth, then add chicken, mushroom caps, scallions, and ginger and toss well to coat. Marinate at room temperature, stirring occasionally, 30 minutes.
• Put rack into wok and add enough water to reach just below it. (If using a steamer insert, use approximately 4 inches of water.) Cover wok (or skillet) and bring water to a boil.
• Transfer chicken mixture to pie plate and put in wok (or skillet), then steam, covered, stirring once, until chicken is just cooked through, about 25 minutes.
• While chicken is steaming, cook bok choy, uncovered, in a 4- to 6-quart pot of (unsalted) boiling water until just tender, 7 to 9 minutes, then drain in a colander.
• Carefully remove pie plate from wok. Arrange bok choy around edge of a large deep platter and spoon chicken and sauce in center.