Hunan and Sichuan

Hand torn cabbage

Name: Hand torn cabbage
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1/2 medium cabbage; 5 tsp cooking oil (vegetable oil); 1/2 tsp sichuan peppercorn; 6 snipped dried red chilli; 4 cloves sliced garlic; 1 tbsp chinkiang black vinegar; 2 tsp soy sauce; 1/2 tsp sugar; 1/2 tsp salt

Cabbage torn by hand, flash fried with dried chillies and vinegar. Five minutes, big flavour.

15 minTime

3 gProtein each

mediumSpice

Why tear, not cut3 chapters · 2 min read

Make it your way

Grandma's wayThe original. Handle with reverence.

The original

137kcal

3 gprotein

5 gfibre

15minutes

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table. Grandma's way is the starting point the other versions are compared with.

Ingredients

Cabbage½ medium

Cooking oil (vegetable oil)5 tsp

Sichuan peppercorn½ tsp

Dried red chilli6, snipped

Garlic4 cloves, sliced

Chinkiang black vinegar1 tbsp

Soy sauce2 tsp

Sugar½ tsp

Salt½ tsp

Method

4 steps

1Tear the cabbage leaves into palm sized pieces, discarding the thickest ribs. Wash and dry very well.
2Heat the wok until smoking. Add the oil, then the peppercorns for 10 seconds and the chillies for 5 seconds. Add the garlic.
3Add the cabbage and toss on the highest heat for 2 minutes.
4Splash the vinegar and soy sauce around the hot sides of the wok, add the sugar and salt and toss 30 seconds.

Serve it like this

Heap into a bowl straight from the wok with the dried chillies on top. Serve at once.

Bloom picks tonight's dinner for your diet and allergies, then cooks it with you step by step.

Hunan and Sichuan

Hand torn cabbage

Cabbage torn by hand, flash fried with dried chillies and vinegar. Five minutes, big flavour.

15 minTime

3 gProtein each

mediumSpice

Why tear, not cut3 chapters · 2 min read

Make it your way

Grandma's wayThe original. Handle with reverence.

The original

137kcal

3 gprotein

5 gfibre

15minutes

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table. Grandma's way is the starting point the other versions are compared with.

Ingredients

Cabbage½ medium

Cooking oil (vegetable oil)5 tsp

Sichuan peppercorn½ tsp

Dried red chilli6, snipped

Garlic4 cloves, sliced

Chinkiang black vinegar1 tbsp

Soy sauce2 tsp

Sugar½ tsp

Salt½ tsp

Method

4 steps

1Tear the cabbage leaves into palm sized pieces, discarding the thickest ribs. Wash and dry very well.
2Heat the wok until smoking. Add the oil, then the peppercorns for 10 seconds and the chillies for 5 seconds. Add the garlic.
3Add the cabbage and toss on the highest heat for 2 minutes.
4Splash the vinegar and soy sauce around the hot sides of the wok, add the sugar and salt and toss 30 seconds.

Serve it like this

Heap into a bowl straight from the wok with the dried chillies on top. Serve at once.

Bloom picks tonight's dinner for your diet and allergies, then cooks it with you step by step.

Hand torn cabbage

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Ingredients

Method

Hand torn cabbage

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