Chicken Recipes - Pork with Cabbage Recipe

  
 

Chinese Meats Recipes - Pork with Cabbage Recipe

Ingredients

  • 1 small cone-shaped cabbage heart (separate the cabbage leaves and then break them)

  • pinch each salt and Ve-Tsin (M.S.G.)

  • sugar

  • tiny pinch pepper

  • 1 1/2 teaspoons corn-flour

  • 5 teaspoons water

  • 4 oz. pork, cut in thin strips

  • 2 tablespoons peanut oil

  • 1 crushed clove garlic

  • 1/2 teaspoon ginger sherry

  • 1/4 pint (U.S. 5/8 cup) hot chicken stock

  • 1/4 teaspoon soy sauce

Method:

  1. separate the cabbage leaves and then break them up roughly but in not too small pieces. Drop them into boiling water. Boil them for 4 minutes, then drain them very well.

  2. Blend together the salt, Ve­Tsin, pepper, pinch of sugar and 1 teaspoon corn-flour and 1 teaspoon water and work them well into the meat.

  3. Get 1 tablespoon oil very hot in the frying-pan. Cook the cabbage pieces in it for 1 minute, while moving them about. Remove them.

  4. Wipe out the pan. Heat the remaining oil in it. Fry the garlic to a pale gold color and then discard it. Quickly fry the pork in the oil for 4 minutes.

  5. Add another pinch of sugar, sherry, chicken stock and soy sauce. Bring to the boil. Stir in the remaining corn-flour, blended with the rest of the water and boil for 1 1/2 minutes.

  6. Return the cabbage to the pan and heat through.