Chinese Bean Sprouts with Shrimps

Ingredients

1 cup peeled shrimps

2 cups mung bean sprouts

½ cup sugar snap peas

Small onion

2 slices ginger

A few stalks celery

2 small cloves of garlic

1 tablespoon soya sauce

salt to taste

1 tsp sugar or honey

Instructions

• Chop shrimps into small pieces
• Slice onion, ginger and celery fine
• Heat a little oil in a pan, and braise the onions, peas, celery, sprouts and a sprinkling of salt to taste.
• Keep them crisp and remove from pan
• Add some more oil, and add the garlic and finely chopped ginger, then the shrimps and braise for one minute.
• Add all vegetables back again together with a mixture of the soya sauce, honey, sherry and one tablespoon water.
• Blend everything together well, cover pan with lid and braise for 3 minutes.
• Turn out and serve immediately with brown rice.

Health Benefits of Mung Beans

• They are a popular sprouting beans.
• Therapeutically, they work to ease water retention and lower high blood pressure.
• Mung beans contain compounds which aid the organs detoxifying processes.