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November 21, 2024

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I am still thinking about an unlikely and truly delicious dish I ate at Sichuan Kitchen in Portland three weeks ago: stir-fried mung bean sprouts. I say 'unlikely' because I so rarely encounter bean sprouts, at least not since the 1970s, when health food went mainstream and everybody seemed to be sprouting them in jars in their kitchen. Did we stir-fry them? Add them to sandwiches? I barely remember. 

Mung bean sprouts barely show up in a fast check of Portland Press Herald archives: in a recipe for egg foo young, here, added to egg rolls, there, never the star. Based on Sichuan Kitchen's dish alone, I think we're missing out. Maybe I can duplicate it at home? Among my cookbook collection, I reach for Madhur Jaffrey's "World Vegetarian" and find Mung Bean Sprouts Stir-Fried with Ginger. Into the kitchen!

Thanks for reading,

Peggy Grodinsky, Food Editor

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