Crab Meat with Green Cabbage

Name: Crab Meat with Green Cabbage (Hsieh huang ts’ai hsin)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon wine; 1-½ tablespoon cornstarch (make paste); 1 tablespoon green onion minced; 2 teaspoon salt; 1 egg white; 1 tablespoon ginger minced; ⅓ cup hard cooked crab roe; 30 pieces baby bok choy; ½ cup cooked crab meat (or ½ can crab meat); ½ cup cooked crab meat (or ½ can crab meat); 6 tablespoons oil (pork fat or vegetable); 6 tablespoons oil (pork fat or vegetable); 6 tablespoons oil (pork fat or vegetable); 3 cups soup stock; ½ tablespoon cold water; 1-½ tablespoon cornstarch (make paste)

Hsieh huang ts’ai hsin

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

The “green cabbage” is actually baby bok choy.

Ingredients

½ cup cooked crab meat (or ½ can crab meat)
⅓ cup

Asia
Taiwan
Kiangsu
Fish course
Dinner
Gluten-free
Pescatarian

Method

Boil baby bok choy in boiling water about 1 minutes over high heat, discard water, remove baby bok choy and soak in cold water, then stir-fry with 2 tablespoons heated oil and add one cup soup stock, ½ teaspoon salt. Cook 1 minute, place all into a bowl.
Heat 3 tablespoons oil in fry pan, fry green onion and ginger a few seconds, add the crab meat and splash wi