How To Clean And Slice Baby Bok Choy

A Bok Choy How-To Guide

Later reading our previous blog post, Bok Choy: The Better CHOY-ce, yous're probably looking to see how to incorporate Bok Choy into your daily diet.

Well, here's some How To'southward for Bok Choy to go yous started!

HOW-TO: Store for Bok Choy

Bok Choy is fairly common in Asian and general supermarkets. There's been an increase of Asian Produce being sold at general supermarkets, Bok Choy being one of the offset few! There are too quite a few Farmer's Markets that sell Bok Choy equally well, so if you lot tin can buy from your local Farmer'southward Markets, please practise so. All Bok Choy pictured in this blog post, if non otherwise noted, are from Food Roots' network of Farmers of Color. Shopping at local Farmer's Markets is a great way to ensure that your produce is fresh and grown with local & sustainable practices.

When shopping for Bok Choy, look for:

Smooth, Crisp, an Light-green Stalks
Green leaves

Watch out for yellow spots on leaves.

There are a few varieties of Bok Choy, every bit mentioned in our previous post:

Green Stem west/ Smoothen Leaves

LEFT: Babe Bok Choy (Shanghai)
RIGHT: Mature Bok Choy (Shanghai)

White Stem w/ Textured Leaves

Baby Bok Choy (pictured)
Mature Baby Bok Choy (not-pictured)

HOW-TO: Wash Bok Choy

Now that you bought some Bok Choy, it's fourth dimension to wash it! If y'all don't demand the Bok Choy to stay whole, nosotros recommend you cut off the ends and launder each stalk + leaf individually. A elementary rinse of water and rubbing volition do. The dirt usually collects at the bottom in the crevices of the stalks, so cutting the ends off helps make them more accessible to clean.

Yous tin can likewise rip the stalks off, if yous don't experience similar cutting them. Merely you will eventually have to cutting them when you reach the mini seedling within. All of Bok Choy is edible, so once yous get to that betoken, you can chop up the stem and the bulb.

If yous want to keep the whole bok choy intact, nosotros recommend using your fingers and opening the stalks and then the h2o can achieve it. If you have a jetstream option on your faucet, that will be very helpful in getting out whatsoever dirt too. Y'all can also cut the Bok Choy in half, which makes information technology easier to access and wash the crevices. Soaking the Bok Choy in a bowl of h2o and rubbing off the dirt is likewise a neat method and conserves water!

HOW-TO: Cutting Bok Choy

Cut and washing the Bok Choy is very related. Depending on how you lot want to cut the Bok Choy tin can affect how you wash it. You tin peel/rip, cut the ends off, chop, or halve them.

After you cutting and washing tin can happen in tandem because as you cut you will exist able to access more of the Bok Choy to wash.

Here are some means yous can cut Bok Choy

(Cutting off the ends - good for soups, stir fry)

(Cutting in half horizontally - good for soups, stir fry, salads) — (Cutting in one-half horizontally - good for soups, stir fry, salads)

(Chopping - good for salads, blending, stir fry)

(Cutting in half vertically - good for roasting, braising) — (Cut in half vertically - good for roasting, braising)

(No Cutting - good for roasting, braising) — (No Cut - good for roasting, braising)

HOW-TO: Store Bok Choy

After you lot take washed and use the Bok Choy that y'all needed, you tin can store leftover, uncooked Bok Choy in a plastic handbag in the refrigerator. Keep Bok Choy stored with other vegetables.

TIP: Make sure the that the Bok Choy is dry out earlier storing in the fridge.

HOW-TO: Regrow Bok Choy

If you are interested in growing your ain Bok Choy, yous can do so with the leftover ends of the stalk!

Cut off 1-2inches of the bottom stem, around where the stalk branches into leaves.

Place the Bok Choy in a bowl of warm water with the cut side facing up. Set the bowl by a sunny location.
Change the water every 1-2 days, keeping the centre moist.
Later a vii-10 days or when the center displays leafy new growth, the eye volition have begun to grow and gradually turn stake light-green to darker green. Transfer the Bok Choy into a pot filled with potting mix. Constitute the Bok Choy and then only the tips of the new dark-green leaves are sticking out.
Consistently h2o the Bok Choy, keeping the soil moist.
In ii-iii months, your new Bok Choy should be large enough to use!
You lot tin utilise either the entire plant or carefully remove the outer office so the inner plant can keep to grow.

HOW-TO: Share your love for Bok Choy!

You are now well acquainted with Bok Choy and the yummy ways to eat it! Take pictures of the masterpieces you make with Bok Choy, or if yous spot Bok Choy when you go eat out! Practice you ever see Bok Choy in your local Farmer's Market? We'd dearest to see how you are using or where you find Bok Choy!