This dish taught me once and for all about the brilliance of a food processor. If you just pulse your veggies, they’re diced small in literally seconds. And you can mince your garlic and ginger in about the same time. Seriously, use that food processor with the blade setting to get finely chopped carrots, celery, red bell pepper, and water chestnuts with almost no effort at all. You can even use it to chop up the green onions, though it’s more of a shred than a chop.
Allergy-friendly hoisin sauce is a new concept, because the traditional version is dependent on soy and wheat/gluten. This fresh, sweet, and savory version will have you dipping all your favorite Chinese foods in sauce again, only now it’ll have a lot less sodium and lots more safe-for-you hoisin flavor.