Sweet and Sour Cabbage

Name: Sweet and Sour Cabbage (T’ang ts’u pai ts’ai)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 5 tablespoons oil; 2 tablespoons sugar; 2 tablespoons brown vinegar; ½ tablespoons sesame oil; 2 teaspoons salt; 6 dried hot red peppers; 2 pounds round cabbage or bok choy; 3 tablespoons soy sauce; ½ tablespoon brown peppercorns; 2 pounds round cabbage or bok choy

T’ang ts’u pai ts’ai

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

2 pounds round cabbage or bok choy
6 dried hot red peppers
½ tablespoon<

Asia
Taiwan
Hunan
Kweichow
Hupeh
Sichuan
Side dish
Vegan
Western China

Method

Remove and wash cabbage leaves. Tear into small pieces about 2” long by 1-½” wide. Cut spine of leaf into smaller pieces.
Wipe clean and cut dry hot red peppers into 1 inch long strips, remove seeds.
Heat oil in fry pan, fry red pepper first, when the pepper gets dark, add pepper corns and cabbage, stirring quickly over very high heat for 3 minutes. W