Shanghai Cabbage Rice

Name: Shanghai Cabbage Rice
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: China
Ingredients: 15 ml (1 tbsp) melted lard or sesame oil; 15 ml (1 tbsp) Shaoxing wine or medium dry sherry; 1.1–1.35 kilos (2½–3 lb) small Shanghai baak choi, rinsed and drained; 2.5 ml (½ tsp) sugar; 550 g (1¼ lb/3 cups) long-grain white rice; 7.5 ml (1½ tsp) salt; 4 slices ginger, peeled; 60 ml (4 tbsp) peanut or vegetable oil

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Classic Food of China

By Yan-Kit So

Published 1992

About

Shanghai people love this and they make it with small baak choi, the cabbage with white stalks and green leaves. To serve it as a meal on its own, they would put dice of salted pork with the cabbage, but otherwise they would use just the cabbage as in this recipe.

Ingredients

1.1–1.35 kilos (2½–3 lb) small Shanghai baak choi, rinsed and drained
60 ml (

Asia
China
Shanghai
Main course
Vegan

Method

Chop off the hard ends and cut the cabbage cross ways at no more than 1 cm (½ in) intervals. If you are worried about the bulk, don’t be, for it will be reduced considerably when cooke