Chinese Recipes - Stuffed Whole Cabbage Recipe

Ingredients

• 1 whole cabbage, about 600g

• 1 chicken

• 2 big crabs

• little lettuce for decoration

Sauce:

• 2 Chinese rice bowls of stock (to obtain stock, boil pork ribs or boil chicken with water for about 2-3 hours)

• 1 1/2 tsp salt

• 2 tsp MSG

• 1 tsp sugar

4servings

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Method:

1. Peel cabbage (leaf by leaf) without washing it. Deep fry oil and, when hot, add in the cabbage to fry for about 3-4 minutes.

2. Put cabbage in water and wash away oil. Drain well.

3. Cut chicken meat into thin strips and season with little salt, 1 tsp sugar, little sesame oil, 1/2 egg white, 1 tbsp groundnut oil and a little corn flour.

4. Boil crabs and remove meat.

5. To assemble cabbage; put about 5-6 pieces of cabbage on plate (to serve as base) and put in the chicken meat, crab meat.

6. Cover up the meat with more cabbage until the whole thing looks like a cabbage. Tie with straw and out to steam with the under mentioned sauce for about 1 hour.

7. After seasoning, take the cabbage out from bowl and place on a serving dish. Cut off the straw. Pour the sauce to frying pan and thicken it with corn flour.

8. Pour sauce onto cabbage. Serve hot. Decorate plate with lettuce strips.