Chinese, or rather Peking, cabbage has recently become very popular in Russia. And it is not surprising, because in addition to its exceptional taste, it surpasses traditional varieties of cabbage in terms of the content of vitamins (there are more than ten of them in its composition!), Mineral salts, amino acids, proteins. Another advantage of the overseas vegetable is the ability to retain vitamins throughout the winter. A wide variety of dishes can be prepared from this cabbage.
It is necessary
- - carrot;
- - cucumbers;
- - tomatoes;
- - greens;
- - vegetable oil;
- - celery;
- - apples;
- - chicken eggs;
- - garlic;
- - feta cheese;
- - butter;
- - red, green, yellow peppers;
- - green onions;
- - ginger;
- - potatoes;
- - spices.
Instructions
Step 1
If you want to preserve as many vitamins as possible in Chinese cabbage, it is best to add it fresh to any vegetable salad, seasoning it with vegetable oil, sour cream or mayonnaise. It goes well with many of our common vegetables, including tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, onions, carrots, radishes, and apples.
Step 2
For example, you can make a salad with carrots: grate carrots, cut fresh cucumbers and Chinese cabbage into strips, and cut tomatoes into slices; Mix all this in a salad bowl and add salt, pepper and oil for dressing (you can olive or sunflower), sprinkle with herbs.
Step 3
If you like celery, try making another interesting salad: Peel and cut into slices a small apple, celery (two stalks) and half a mild white onion into strips, tear the leaves of Chinese cabbage with your hands and sprinkle everything with lemon juice. Then toss with two chopped tomatoes, season with salad dressing and place in a salad bowl. Decorate the salad with halves of two boiled eggs.
Step 4
Peking cabbage can be stuffed or made from cabbage rolls. For example, take and chop a clove of garlic, mash 200 g of feta cheese with the same amount of cream cheese, mix everything into a homogeneous mass. Wash and cut into small cubes the sweet red, green and yellow pepper halves. Add this and 100 g olives to the curd and stir well. Cut the cabbage in half, lay each half cut side down and, carefully peeling back the leaves, lay out the filling in a thin layer. Then fold both halves together and wrap them tightly with cling film. Put it in the refrigerator. Your meal will be ready in two hours.
Step 5
Like white cabbage, Peking cabbage is very good sauerkraut. If you like spicy food, try Korean kimchi. More than a hundred different recipes are known. Here is one of the most common ones. Take a pound of Chinese cabbage, separate the leaves and sprinkle with salt. Then fill them with a liter of cold boiled water and leave for 8 hours in a cool place. After that, rinse the leaves and squeeze. Now you need to prepare a seasoning from the following ingredients: one tablespoon of finely chopped garlic, ginger, green onions and salt, two teaspoons of finely chopped red pepper (dry) and sugar. Place the seasoning in a large bowl and pour half a liter of boiling water over it. Add cabbage there, cover and leave in a cool place. After two days, drain the liquid and you can try.
Step 6
Chinese cabbage is also very tasty in soups. For cooking, make chicken broth. Cut the carrots into cubes and toss into the broth, then add the potatoes, chopped cabbage and at the end of cooking the dill, green onions, spices.
