• Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Wok Star Eleanor Hoh

Be a Wok Star!

  • Home
  • About
    • Press
    • Partners/Sponsors
  • Shop
    • Wok Star Amazon Store
    • Wok-Set
  • Experiences
    • Wok Star Supper Club
  • Blog/Reviews
  • Resources
    • Tips
    • Asian Markets in Miami
    • Asian Markets in Broward
    • Videos
  • Contact
  • Subscribe

weeknightdinner

Easy Wok Dinner

April 20, 2013 By Eleanor Hoh Leave a Comment

This is my go to Easy Wok Dinner that I make frequently! Wok Stars, I know you get excited to show off your new found wok skills to friends, however, don’t pressure yourself with a big party on your first attempt. It takes the fun out of it and you’ll get put off. Take baby steps and you’ll reap HUGE flavor and rewards!

Grilled salmon with Moroccan Spice Rub and stir fried bok choy and mini sweet peppers.
Grilled salmon with Moroccan Spice Rub and stir fried bok choy and mini sweet peppers.
 
Nah, better to do a simple stir fry bok choy  with just a dash of tamari, sherry and squirt of lime and grill a whole fillet of salmon sprinkled with Earthy Delight’s Moroccan Spice Rub. There’s enough grilled salmon leftover for the hubby and my lunch for the next day, how handy is that?!  Other great meats for grilling are skirt steak, pork chops, chicken thighs, limitless. Vegetarians can grill a whole slab of tofu or tempeh.
Keep it SIMPLE and enjoy the journey, you don’t need recipes for weeknight cooking!  Try it, you’ll love it and everyone will love you…
bokchoy
Bok Choy: separate each stalk and wash well
woksetup
Wok & Stove setup on counter so I can grill salmon!
stirfrybokchoypeppers
Add multi colored mini sweet peppers to brighten the dish!
I put Earthy Delight's Moroccan Spice Rub in a spice dispenser which helps to distribute evenly!
I put Earthy Delight’s Moroccan Spice Rub in a spice dispenser (green twist top) which helps to distribute evenly!
Grill the whole fillet so you have leftovers for lunch!
Grill the whole fillet so you have leftovers for lunch! I had it with salad, yum.
Easy cleanup! Of course there's a chopping board, wok and spatula but that's about it!
Easy cleanup takes 2 minutes! Of course there’s a chopping board, wok and spatula but that’s about it! I use foil on my grill tray.
 

Filed Under: blog, healthy eating, meal ideas, weeknightdinner Tagged With: healthy, salmon, stir fry, weeknightdinner, wok, wok cooking

Easy Wok Dinner

April 20, 2013 By Eleanor Hoh Leave a Comment

This is my go to Easy Wok Dinner that I make frequently! Wok Stars, I know you get excited to show off your new found wok skills to friends, however, don’t pressure yourself with a big party on your first attempt. It takes the fun out of it and you’ll get put off. Take baby steps and you’ll reap HUGE flavor and rewards!

Grilled salmon with Moroccan Spice Rub and stir fried bok choy and mini sweet peppers.
Grilled salmon with Moroccan Spice Rub and stir fried bok choy and mini sweet peppers.
 
Nah, better to do a simple stir fry bok choy  with just a dash of tamari, sherry and squirt of lime and grill a whole fillet of salmon sprinkled with Earthy Delight’s Moroccan Spice Rub. There’s enough grilled salmon leftover for the hubby and my lunch for the next day, how handy is that?!  Other great meats for grilling are skirt steak, pork chops, chicken thighs, limitless. Vegetarians can grill a whole slab of tofu or tempeh.
Keep it SIMPLE and enjoy the journey, you don’t need recipes for weeknight cooking!  Try it, you’ll love it and everyone will love you…
bokchoy
Bok Choy: separate each stalk and wash well
woksetup
Wok & Stove setup on counter so I can grill salmon!
stirfrybokchoypeppers
Add multi colored mini sweet peppers to brighten the dish!
I put Earthy Delight's Moroccan Spice Rub in a spice dispenser which helps to distribute evenly!
I put Earthy Delight’s Moroccan Spice Rub in a spice dispenser (green twist top) which helps to distribute evenly!
Grill the whole fillet so you have leftovers for lunch!
Grill the whole fillet so you have leftovers for lunch! I had it with salad, yum.
Easy cleanup! Of course there's a chopping board, wok and spatula but that's about it!
Easy cleanup takes 2 minutes! Of course there’s a chopping board, wok and spatula but that’s about it! I use foil on my grill tray.
 

Filed Under: blog, healthy eating, meal ideas, weeknightdinner Tagged With: healthy, salmon, stir fry, weeknightdinner, wok, wok cooking

Gratitude: 5 Minute Wonder Soup

November 9, 2012 By Eleanor Hoh 18 Comments

Gratitude is a very loaded word for me!  The older I get, the more I realize I’ve inherited many traits from my parents.  Good and bad. The good?  Learning to cook from my parents, they had two totally different styles!  The bad, well, we won’t get into it.  My dad is all about using top notch, expensive ingredients.  My mom focuses on homestyle cooking (my kinda cooking).  What they share is not using recipes and it’s such a liberating technique! It’s made me enjoy the challenge of using what I have.  It’s made me tap into my intuition and creative side so I don’t rely on following recipes.  I am truly grateful to my parents for introducing me to this liberating journey to cooking. It’s made me want to tell the world (and I have been), this is how you want to cook if you were stuck on a desert island or not!
After a recent sister reunion, I decided I’d make more of an effort to be grateful for what I have and not take things for granted, be ready to let go when the time is right and be open to new things.  And the most important?  Be grateful everyday because I’ve only got one life, so I need to make everyday COUNT and be the best that I can!  In fact, ‘Gratitude’ is the theme of this month’s #LetsLunch challenge, please check below for more posts from other Lets Lunchers, and  check back for more or get the feed! 
So, with that said, who’s ready for 5 Minute Wonder Soup? I came up with this name because it really takes about 5 minutes from beginning to end.  A dish I learned from my mom.  She came up with this dish because after a hard day of teaching at a boy’s school, she needed to whip something up quickly for a family of 7! It is so easy, fast and tasty, you’ll want to try it immediately.

5 Minute Wonder Soup

Substitutions:
You can substitute other types of meat like pork, beef, lamb, chicken, endless. Use a cut that’s NOT tough and chewy. Slice into thinner bite size pieces so they cook faster. This is the same cutting technique you would use for stir frying.  Good seafood substitutions are baby scallops, fish (salmon, grouper, yellowtail, tilapia), mussels, clams. It’s entirely up to you with vegetables but I want to say Less is More applies here. Otherwise it becomes a 10 minute, not 5 minute wonder soup which is the goal of this dish!  Anything in the cabbage family works, kale (curly or not), napa cabbage, bok choy (white stem or Shanghainese).
Tips for cookware & utensils:
Using a wok of course makes this so much easier because of its wide surface area and depth to work with. Mine is a thin walled, lightweight, round bottom cast iron wok which I use on a portable butane gas stove set on top of my electric stove (click on link to find out why I have this setup!)   But if you don’t have a wok, use the widest pan you have, stainless steel is good.
Accompaniment:
We don’t eat starch like rice or noodles but if you want to, have some red rice or soba noodles, or glass noodles. Make this ahead so they’re ready.

Ingredients:
3/4 lb shrimp, shelled and deveined
1/2 packet tofu puffs, halved into diagonals 
couple of bok choy heads, separate stems and wash well
1 knob of ginger, washed in cold water, dried & shredded
2 cloves of garlic, smashed & diced
1 carton chicken broth (use beef if you’re using beef or lamb)
squirt of tamari
dash of sherry
dash of white pepper
pinch of sea salt 
1 scallion, sliced diagonally really thin or chopped in thin rounds
Few sprigs of cilantro, chopped for garnish (optional or sub with parsley)

3 easy steps for 5 minute wonder soup! 

  1. Fry veggies & tofu first w/half of garlic & ginger, remove from wok to plate. Then fry shrimp with rest of garlic & ginger (just till they turn pink so you don’t overcook them), add to dish of veggies.
  2. Add carton of stock into wok and let it come to a boil, add squirt of tamari, dash of sherry, dash of white pepper and pinch of sea salt. Adjust to your taste.
  3.  Add veggies and shrimp into soup, you’re done!  Serve in big bowls, garnish with scallions and cilantro and ENJOY!

Here are more Let’s Lunch posts, do check back for more…

Gratitude “Plumb” Cake from Lisa at Monday Morning Cooking Club
Gratitude Fried Rice from Linda at spicebox travels
Seafood Chowder from Lucy at A Cook and Her Books
Cracked Black Pepper and Blue Cheese Crackers (gluten free) from Charissaat Zest Bakery
A Thanksgiving tablecloth tradition from Lucy at In a Southern Kitchen
Gratitude Soup from Rashda at Hot Curries and Cold Beer
Pumpkin Muffins with Cinnamon Sugar (gluten free) from Linda at Free Range Cookies
Pumpkin Roll with Pecans from Annabelle at a Glass of Fancy
5-Minute Wonder Soup from Eleanor at Wok Star
Green Tomato Salad from Renee at My Kitchen and I
Asian-Style Pickled Oyster Mushrooms from Joe at Joe Yonan
Pain au levain from Rebecca at GrongarBlog
If you want to join #LetsLunch, just tweet with this hashtag and someone will answer you!  I’ll be sporadically posting on Let’s Lunch due to overload, stay tuned.
 

Filed Under: "one dish wok meals", #LetsLunch, shrimp, soup, toufu, weeknightdinner, wok cooking Tagged With: "wok cooking", shrimp, soup, tofu, weeknightdinner

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Go to page 1
  • Go to page 2
  • Go to page 3
  • Go to Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Wok Star Supper Club at Hutong

Blog/Reviews

  • Wok Star Supper Club collaborates with Ghee Wynwood for a One-Night-Only Indian 13-dish Feast
  • Slow Food Miami Snail of Approval Tasting Party at Eden Roc: A Night of Delicious Bites Under the Stars
  • Wok Star Supper Club x Hutong: A Flaming Hot Night!

Subscribe to Wok Star Newsletter

Get first dibs to attend Wok Star Supper Club events, receive food updates & restaurant reviews.

Top rated products

  • Wok Star Kit to help you succeed Wok Star Kit
    Rated 5.00 out of 5
    $159.00
  • Wok Mitts Wok Star Mitt
    Rated 5.00 out of 5
    $35.00
  • Wok Star Online Classes Wok Star Online Classes
    Rated 5.00 out of 5
    $27.99

Join Wok Star’s Community

FacebookInstagramPinterestRSSTwitterYouTube

Footer

Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2025 Wok Star Eleanor Hoh. All rights reserved.