stir-fry-cabbage.md

Stir-Fry Cabbage

• First cooked by: @heathercoraje
• Date: Week 11, 13 FACN2
• Author of Recipe: @heathercoraje

The story behind this dish The author of recipe often suffers from acid reflux and indigestion. Cabbage is known to help reduce stomach pain and intestinal Ulcers. Read more. Because fresh cabbage juice isn't her favorite beverage, she came up with a brilliant idea to eat a large amount of cabbage and actually enjoy eating it.

return Stir-Fry Cabbage

Ingredients

• A large wok
• Vegetable oil (olive oil x)
• 1/2 of a large white cabbage
• 3 pieces of 50g of slim Scallion (Green onion)
• 2 pieces of large dried chili pepper
• 5 or more cloves of garlic
• Soy sauce, oyster sauce and sugar for making a base sauce

• Base sauce needs to be prepared boiled with following ingredients

  • 4:5:1 ratio of Soy sauce, Oyster sauce and sugar. This would be 1 table spoon of soy sauce, a bit more than 1 table spoon of Oyster sauce and 1 tea spoon of sugar.

  • 1:1 ratio of Soy sauce and sugar for veggie friends. For the vegetarian version, replace Oyster sauce with extra soy sauce and sugar because you will lose the sweetness of Oyster sauce.

Ingredient preparation

• Slice cabbage for width of 1cm or less
• Chop green onions for width of less than 1cm
• Chop chili pepper large enough so that people don't eat it accidentally
• Slice garlic

Method

1. Heat the wok and add enough vegetable oil. This is stir-fry dish. Make sure to be generous with oil

2. Once the wok is hot enough (on medium low), add green onions and wait until the oil starts to smell green onion-y. This is to add a primary flavor to oil. (For 3-4 min)

3. Add red chili pepper and stir. This is to add secondary flavor to oil (3min)

4. Add garlic and wait a min or two

5. Add sliced cabbage and stir constantly to prevent it from being burnt

6. Add base sauce based on members' preference because you don't want to eat alone

7. Once the cabbage is half cooked, give it max fire on stove and stir it until done. This step is important because if cabbage stays on medium low until fully cooked, it gets too mushy and loses it's flavor of stir-fry dish.

Optional

Stir-Fry Cabbage goes well with any type of rice or noodle. Also, most oyster sauce sold in Nazareth (i.e one from brand 'Taste of Asia' ) actually does not contain oyster so it is just flavor to mimic oyster sauce. I highly recommend adding oyster sauce when making base sauce therefore.