Quick and Tasty Chinese-Inspired Cabbage Stir Fry

For whatever reason, we’re on a cabbage kick in the BWD household. It’s showing up in noodle dishes, on Dominican street food hamburgers, alongside German food, etc.

Strangely enough, it’s not just my fault. Normally I am the cabbage cheerleader, but this time the whole family is in on it.

Cabbage Stir Fry

With that said, unless something changes dramatically, today will be end a three-day streak of me ordering moo shu, which is a Chinese dish of stir fried meat (in my area, it’s usually pork or chicken), cabbage, onions, and carrots that gets wrapped in a Chinese pancake and eaten like a burrito. (I should have photographed any of the moo shu I have had this week, but I was hungry.)

Anyway, Chinese pancakes are hard to find in my neck of the woods and while they’re super fun, we don’t need them to get some Chinese-inspired cabbage in our lives.

You will need:

  • 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
  • 1 onion cut into 1/4 wide inch strips
  • Salt
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 tablespoon minced ginger
  • 1 head of cabbage cut into 1/2 inch strips
  • 1 carrot, peeled
  • 4 tablespoons oyster sauce
  • 2 teaspoons white pepper

  1. Get the vegetable oil hot in a wok or high sided skillet.
  2. Add the onions with a light pinch of salt, garlic, ginger. Saute until the onions are soft, about 6 minutes.
  3. Add the cabbage and use your peeler to peel strips of carrot into the wok
  4. Cook until the cabbage is soft and wilted
  5. Add the oyster sauce and pepper, stir to combine and heat
  6. Serve over rice

Enjoy!

Image by Matthias Böckel from Pixabay

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