Sweet Sour Cabbage Salad Pei-Ping Style

Name: Sweet Sour Cabbage Salad Pei-Ping Style (Pei p’ing la pai ts’ai)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 2 pounds Western head cabbage or Napa cabbage; 2 pounds Western head cabbage or Napa cabbage; 1 tablespoon brown peppercorn; 1-½ tablespoon salt; ⅓ cup red hot peppers (shredded); 1 tablespoon ginger (shredded); 5 tablespoons sesame oil; 5 tablespoons sugar; 5 tablespoons white vinegar

Pei p’ing la pai ts’ai

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

2 pounds Western head cabbage or Napa cabbage
⅓ cup red hot peppers (shredded)

Asia
Taiwan
Shansi
Honan
Hopeh
Shantung
Vegan
Gluten-free

Method

Clean and cut cabbage into 1-½” long shreds. Put in bowl and sprinkle with salt, mix and soak about 4 hours.
Squeeze out the brine and discard it. Place cabbage in bowl, add the shredded red hot peppers and ginger to the cabbage.
Heat sesame oil in frying pan, add brown peppercorn, fry until dark and good smelling. Add sugar and vinegar and bring to a