Did you know the humble chive is a superfood?

This green machine is packed with antioxidants, Potassium, Vitamin C and Vitamin K. It’s also a favorite in traditional Chinese medicine and Chinese cooking.

Oh, and it’s the star of the show in master chef Guo Wenjun’s Wild Green Stir Fried Rice, which is featured prominently on his restaurant Chef Guo’s 10-course menu and which he was gracious enough to share with our readers below.

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“The Wild Green Stir Fried Rice dish comes from combining innovation with traditional Chinese medicine theory: meaning, food and medicine come from the same source,” Wenjun says. “Chives are one of the main ingredients in this dish that give it flavor, color, and nutritional value. Besides being a vegetable, Chinese chive is also known in Chinese traditional medicine, and has been used in many Chinese traditional medicine prescriptions. It increases energy, regulates hemorrhages, helps with ailments of the liver, kidneys, and digestive track, and even as the antidote for some poisons. Wild millet rice is also used in this dish. It is a small grain rice with a light-yellow color, it's smooth and mild. The recipe creates a perfect combination between Chinese chive the millet rice, tasty and dense in nutrition.”

The below recipe makes one serving and takes about three hours of total cook time—but don’t let that stop you from giving it a try. Most of that cooking time is passive, as you whip up a delicious Chinese chive juice to mix with the rice, then combine those ingredients into stir-fried balls that explode with flavor.

Wild Green Stir Fried Rice

Ingredients:

• 30g Wild millet rice
• 35g Chinese chive
• 2g Chinese sweet rice
• 0.1 g Wild mountain pepper (Chinese pepper)
• 1 g Scallion oil or Cooking oil of choice
• For garnish: 1 Chinese chive and 3 to 4 edible flowers
• Optional garnish: 0.2 g pork and Chinese sausage

Directions:

1. Place all 35g of Chinese chives in a blender. Blend until liquified. Set to the side.
2. Cook the wild millet rice, allow it to cool slightly, then fluff with a fork.
3. Pour the Chinese chive juice into the rice and mix until combined.
4. Stir fry the rice in a pan with the wild mountain pepper, then remove from the heat and set to the side.
5. Grind the sweet rice into paste then shape into a ball. Fry in oil until golden brown.
6. Remove the rice ball from the oil and use chopsticks to open one side of the ball to create a bowl-like shape. Fill the resulting space with the stir-fried wild green millet rice.
7. Garnish with chopped Chinese chives, and decorate with edible flowers. If you wish, you may sprinkle chopped pieces of pork and Chinese sausage atop the rice as well.
8. Serve and enjoy!

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