Name: Bamboo Shoots with ‘Sausages’
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: China
Ingredients: 2.5 ml/½ tsp sugar; crisp-fried garlic or shallots, to garnish; 30 ml/2 tbsp vegetable oil; 30 ml/2 tbsp yellow bean sauce; 15 ml/1 tbsp sesame oil; 3 garlic cloves, crushed; 300 g/11 oz canned bamboo shoots; 150 g/5 oz gluten sausages or other shapes; 100 g/3¾ oz cabbage, cut into thin strips

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

China

By Terry Tan

Published 2020

About

This is a vegetarian dish, so it may seem surprising to find sausages in the title, but there is an explanation. Within the realm of Chinese vegetarian cooking there are many mock-meat products made chiefly from gluten. Some are so skilfully made that they actually look like chicken, duck, roast pork or sausage. These gluten sausages are now available in cans and vacuum packs in Chinese stores.