Name: Shredded quick-fried cabbage with egg (Orak Arik)
Yield: to serve four
Cuisine: Indonesia
Ingredients: salt and pepper; 1 medium-sized white or green cabbage; 2 standard eggs or 1 large egg; 2 tbs vegetable oil or clarified butter; 1 medium-sized onion

Preparation info

to serve
four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Indonesian Food and Cookery

By Sri Owen

Published 1980

About

This is a quick and easy way to cook cabbage. It tastes excellent, and the cabbage is in the pan for so short a time that it loses none of its goodness.

Ingredients

1 medium-sized white or green cabbage
1 medium-sized onion
salt and pepper

Method

Shred the cabbage finely and chop the onion. Heat the oil or butter in a heavy frying-pan. Fry the onion until soft; add the shredded cabbage, and salt and pepper to taste. Stir continuously while frying for 2 minutes, then cover and continue cooking for not more than 5 minutes. Stir again. Break the eggs into a bowl, season with salt and pepper, and beat thoroughly. Let the cabbage fry for ano