Chinese Stir-Fry Scallop With Vegetables Recipe

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Liv Wan
Liv Wan
Liv Wan is a former professional chef who has published three cookbooks about Chinese and Taiwanese cuisine.
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Updated on 12/10/21
Sixi Scallop - Chinese Stir-fry Scallop with vegetables
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Prep: 15 mins
Cook: 15 mins
Total: 30 mins
Servings: 4 servings
Nutrition Facts (per serving)
227 Calories
2g Fat
26g Carbs
28g Protein
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Nutrition Facts
Servings: 4
Amount per serving
Calories 227
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 2g 2%
Saturated Fat 0g 2%
Cholesterol 47mg 16%
Sodium 2011mg 87%
Total Carbohydrate 26g 9%
Dietary Fiber 4g 15%
Total Sugars 6g
Protein 28g
Vitamin C 179mg 894%
Calcium 67mg 5%
Iron 3mg 15%
Potassium 849mg 18%
*The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.
(Nutrition information is calculated using an ingredient database and should be considered an estimate.)

This dish is one of my favorite Lunar New Year dishes. It’s delicious, simple, super quick to make as well as really colorful. This dish is especially perfect when you have many dishes to prepare for your Lunar New Year banquet as you can make this dish really quickly.

A great thing about this dish is you can easily get hold of all the ingredients in your local supermarket. You don’t even need to go to Asian or Chinese supermarkets to buy any ingredients. The one exception is rice wine but dried sherry is a perfect substitute.

“Sixi 四喜” in Chinese language means “four happiness” or “four lucky or joy”, which also means a lot of happiness. So as you may be aware, Chinese people love to serve dishes with lucky names or meanings in their banquets. So this is a really popular dish in Chinese cuisine.

In this recipe, I used carrots, red and yellow peppers as well as mangetout (snow peas). But as with many Chinese dishes, you can always use other vegetables instead such as peas, green peppers, baby corn. Personally, I like my dishes to be colorful so I will always recommend using vegetables that will make this dish more colorful, but this is entirely up to you.

You can also adjust the amount of vegetables you use. I use quite a lot of vegetables in this dish but if you want you can cut down the amount of vegetables you use. You might want to adjust the amount of seasonings used as well to suit your personal preference.

Ingredients

Ingredients for Scallops:

  • 1 pound (400 grams) scallops

  • 1 carrot, peeled and sliced

  • 1 red bell pepper, cut into a 3/4-inch diamond shape

  • 1 yellow bell pepper, cut into a 3/4-inch diamond shape

  • 8 ounces (200 grams) snow peas (mangetout)

  • 1 clove garlic, finely chopped

  • 1 slice ginger root, finely chopped

  • 1/2 chille pepper, thinly sliced

  • 1/2 cup chicken stock, or broth, or vegetable stock

Seasonings:

  • 2 teaspoons salt

  • 2 tablespoons potato starch, or corn flour

  • 2 tablespoons cold water

Marinade for Scallops:

  • 1/4 teaspoon salt

  • 1/2 teaspoon ground white pepper

  • 1 tablespoon rice wine

Steps to Make It

Procedures:

  1. Marinade scallops with rice wine or dried sherry, salt and ground white pepper.

  2. Heat up a wok with 1 tablespoon of oil and stir-fry the garlic, ginger and chili until fragrant

  3. Add carrot and keep stir-frying for 1 minute.

  4. Add yellow and red pepper and stir-fry for 30 seconds.

  5. Add mangetout (snow peas) and mix it evenly, then add stock and cook at high heat until the stock has reduced a little bit. (about 1/3 of stock)

  6. Add scallop and gently mix evenly and stir-fry until the scallops are cooked. This should only take a couple minutes but it depends on the thickness and the size of your scallop.

  7. Mix the potato starch with cold water to make a slurry of potato starch water. Stir the potato starch water into the pot and bring it to boil again. It’s now ready to serve.