Delicious Simmered Chinese Cabbage and Atsuage with Thickened Sauce. Great recipe for Simmered Chinese Cabbage & Atsuage. I always make this when Chinese cabbage is in season. Adjust the amount of sugar to tastes.

The cabbages are sautéed, then simmered with the pork patties in a lightly flavoured sauce until they melt in your mouth. Simmered Pork Patties and Chinese Cabbage is a Japanese home-cooking dish that you will probably never see in restaurants. It looks very simple but is so delicious. You can cook Delicious Simmered Chinese Cabbage and Atsuage with Thickened Sauce using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Delicious Simmered Chinese Cabbage and Atsuage with Thickened Sauce

Prepare 300 grams of Chinese or napa cabbage.
You need 1 piece of Atsuage.
You need 1 clove of Garlic.
It's 1 tbsp of Sesame oil.
Prepare 100 ml of ★ Water.
Prepare 2 tbsp of ★ Soy sauce.
Prepare 1 tbsp of ★ Sugar.
It's 1 tbsp of ★ Mirin.
Prepare 1 tbsp of ★ Sake.
Prepare 1 tbsp of each Water, katakuriko.

Fry the bacon and garlic with ghee (clarified butter). Add Napa cabbage and coconut cream. Once the cabbage turns softer, thicken the sauce with starch of choice. I like the texture of choy sum in stir-fried dishes as the stems stay crunchy.

Delicious Simmered Chinese Cabbage and Atsuage with Thickened Sauce step by step

Roughly chop the Chinese cabbage. Blanch the atsuage to remove excess oil and cut it into 1 cm pieces. Thinly slice the garlic..
Pour the sesame oil into a frying pan. Add the garlic and cook over medium heat until fragrant..
Add the Chinese cabbage and quickly stir-fry, making sure the oil is well distributed..
Add the atsuage and the ★ seasonings, cover with a lid and cook over low heat. Simmer for around 5 minutes, stirring occasionally..
When the liquid is reduced and the Chinese cabbage is tender and soft, turn off the heat and add the katakuriko slurry..
Turn the heat to high and mix well. When it thickens, it's done..
Add green spring onions for color..

Atsuage is a thick tofu that is deep-fried without coating. You can find more details about assuage in the post. Douse the atsuage in hot water to remove some of the oil, then cut into edible size pieces. Peel the carrot, then shave into thin slices. Remove the roots from the bean sprouts and tear the cabbage into chunks.