Chinese Stir Fry Pumpkin 中式炒金瓜
This easy Chinese Stir Fry Pumpkin recipe is sweet, savory, and packed with flavor. A nutritious home-cooked dish ready in just minutes—perfect with rice.
- Prep time
- 20 min
- Cook time
- 20 min
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 500 grams pumpkin (without skin)
- 15 grams dried shrimp (soaked and chopped)
- 3 cloves garlic (peeled and diced)
- 2 tbsp cooking oil
- ½ cup water
- 1 tbsp oyster sauce
- ½ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp ground white pepper
Instructions
- 1
Prepare Ingredients:
- 2
Prepare all ingredients needed to cook the dish.
- 3
First prepare the pumpkin. First chop the pumpkin into thick slices. Spoon out the seeds and cut to remove the skin. Lastly cut into thick cubes.
- 4
Soak dried shrimp till soft, drained, coarsely chop and set aside.
- 5
Also chop garlic and dice spring onion.
- 6
Also have ready the simple seasonings for the dish.
- 7
Cooking Chinese Stir Fry Pumpkin:
- 8
First, heat oil in wok. Add garlic and sauté till fragrant. Then add in chopped dried shrimp and continue to fry till dry and fragrant.
- 9
Add in the pumpkin cubes followed by oyster sauce, salt and ground white pepper. Stir fry till the seasonings is well mixed into the pumpkin.
- 10
Add in water. Cover the wok and simmer on low heat for 5 to 8 minutes or till the pumpkin turn fork tender but not mushy. Finish uncovered to reduce any excess liquid and intensify the flavor. Adjust seasonings to taste. And we are done!
- 11
Transfer the cooked pumpkin onto a serving plate and serve immediately.
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Goes so well with steamed white rice. Enjoy!