Cabbage with Eggs

Cabbage with Eggs Recipe

• Serves: 2-3
• Prep: 10 mins
• Cook: 10 mins

This is my mum's easy and fast recipe for stir-fried cabbage with eggs. The cabbage used in this recipe is the round head type (aka gaolicai/高丽菜) and not the longish type aka napa cabbage. Cabbage, when cooked right (not too raw and not overcooked) has a natural sweetness and mild crunch.

Ingredients

• 250 grams or half a head cabbage (Beijing Cabbage/高丽菜/卷心菜 ) sliced to 2-cm width
• 1/4 cup water
• 1/2 tbsp light soy sauce
• 1 tsp sesame oil
• dashes of white pepper powder to taste
• 1 tbsp cooking oil
• 2 slices ginger minced
• 5 cloves garlic minced
• 1 egg lightly beaten with 1/4 tsp light soy sauce and white pepper
• 1 tbsp Chinese cooking wine (Hua Tiao/Shao Hsing) optional

Instructions

1. Combine in a cup: water, light soy sauce, sesame oil and white pepper. Set aside.
   
2. Heat oil in wok; stir fry ginger until fragrant. Add garlic and stir fry for about 30 seconds.
   
3. Add cabbage and stir fry until they start to soften. Add sauce prepared in Step 1. Stir to coat evenly, cover with lid and allow to simmer on low heat for about 2 minutes.
   
4. Pour egg mixture over the cabbage and stir fry quickly. Once the egg is almost cooked, drizzle cooking wine along the sides of the wok and turn off the stove when you smell the aroma of the wine seconds later.