Broccoli and Bok Choy in Curry Sauce

One of my co-workers has been gifting me with excess vegetables from her CSA.  Before Labor Day weekend, she gave me an eggplant, several zucchinis and heirloom tomatoes.  Last week, she gave me some fresh heads of broccoli and bunches of bok choy.  I was definitely happy to take those fresh veggies off of her hands!

I wanted to make a simple dish to incorporate these two ingredients, so I decided to simply cook them with a curry sauce using whatever ingredients I had on hand.  My ingredients were simple:

• 2 small heads of broccoli
• 2 bunches of bok choy
• 5-6 cloves of garlic, minced
• 2-3 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 1 tablespoon red curry paste
• 1 can of light coconut milk
• Drizzle of honey, to taste
• Sesame seeds, to taste

First, I prepped the ingredients.  I washed the bok choy and roughly chopped both the stems and the leaves but separated the two in different bowls.  I also washed the broccoli and cut the stems off so that the florets were just remaining.

I then warmed up my Le Creuset French oven on the stove at medium-high heat with the vegetable oil.  I pressed the garlic into the pan and cooked the garlic in the oil for a minute.

I then added the bok choy stems to the pan and gave everything a stir.

I next added the broccoli and again mixed everything together.

Finally, I added the bok choy leaves to the pan.

I added the coconut milk, curry paste and honey to the vegetables and gave everything a stir. 

I put the lid on the French oven and lowered the heat to medium-low to let everything simmer while Bret finished up with the protein.  While I was preparing the vegetables, Bret had simply prepared grilled tilapia in tin foil packets with olive oil with toasted sesame ginger seasoning.  I served the vegetables with the fish and also added some extra curry sauce for the fish.  I sprinkled sesame seeds on top of the vegetables for a little extra crunch.

This dinner was so easy to make, ridiculously healthy but super flavorful.  I'm loving dishes like this that can easily come together with such little effort!