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

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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.