Stir-fry Cucumber with Garlic, Oyster Sauce and Dried Shrimps

Stir-fry Cucumber with Garlic, Oyster Sauce and Dried Shrimps

There are a lot of benefits in cucumber, good for our complexion is one of the well known fact as we can see that there are a lot of facial products that are made from cucumber. Other than that, it is also a cooling vegetable that helps to reduce the heat from our bodies. Hence, if you are feeling some heatiness in your body, you can take this vegetable to cool your body down.

Here is a simple way to cook cucumber to provide more varieties than just eating it fresh and raw, but of course, to retain its nutritional value, eating it raw is the best.

This recipe is almost the same as Stir-fry Cucumber with Dried Shimps, except that my boyfriend added oyster sauce to the recipe.

Ingredients

1. 1 Cucumber
2. 1 1/2 tablespoon of Dried Shrimps (Washed)
3. 1 tablespoon of Garlic
4. 1 tablespoon of Light Soya Sauce
5. 1 tablespoon of Oyster Sauce
6. 2 tablespoon of Hot Water
7. 1 1/2 tablespoon of Cooking Oil

Preparation

1. Peel off Cucumber skin by using a peeler
2. Deseed Cucumber by cutting Cucumber into 2 (vertically), use a metal spoon to scoop out the seeds
3. Cut it into thin slices
4. Washed Dried Shrimps

Steps

1. Add Cooking Oil in hot pan
2. Add Dried Shrimps and stir-fry until fragrant
3. Add Garlic and stir-fry until fragrant (before garlic turn brown)
4. Add Cucumber and stir-fry for approx 2 minutes
5. Add Light Soya Sauce, Oyster Sauce and Hot Water
6. Stir-fry to mix well for approx 4 minutes

Good to go with Rice and a few other chinese dishes.

Tips and Comments:

• A refreshing dish and is easy to cook with minimum ingredients!
• I prefer cucumber to be softer in this dish, but if you prefer cucumber to taste crunchy, shorten the time to simmer.