Baked Chinese Cabbage with Crab Sauce

Name: Baked Chinese Cabbage with Crab Sauce (Hsieh jou chu ts’ai tan)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: ½ cup cooked crab meat; 2 pounds cooked hard crab roe; 2 pounds Napa cabbage; 3 tablespoons oil; 2 teaspoons salt; 1 teaspoon sugar; ½ teaspoon MSG (optional); 4 tablespoons oil; 3 tablespoons flour; 3 tablespoons milk; 1 teaspoon salt; 2-½ cups soup stock

Hsieh jou chu ts’ai tan

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

½ cup cooked crab meat
2 pounds cooked hard crab roe
2

Asia
Taiwan
Fish course
Dinner
Pescatarian

Method

Remove the cabbage leaves. Clean and cut into 2 inch crosswise slices. Then slice into ½ inch wide strips (leafy cabbage may be cut a little wider).
Heat 3 tablespoons of oil in a frying ran. Put the stem portions of the cabbage in the pan. Stir-fry about 1 minute until almost softened, then add the leafy cabbage. Stir-fry again over high heat until soft. Seaso