Yen Can Cook: Steamed Minced Pork with Dong Cai
Steamed minced pork with Dong Cai (冬菜蒸猪肉), this definitely favorite dish of mine from my childhood days. I can easily finish a bowl of rice with only this, a very comforting yet simple to prepare dish.
Dong Cai (冬菜), a type of pickled Chinese cabbage which consists of finely chopped Tianjin cabbage, garlic and salt. This pickled vegetable is used to flavor soups, stir fried or stewed dishes and normally packed in earthenware crocks or clear plastic packages.
Ingredients
500g minced pork (used half lean half fat meat)
2 tablespoons Dong Cai
Spring onions (finely chopped for garnishing)
Seasoning
1 teaspoon light soya sauce
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1/4 teaspoon pepper
3 tablespoons water
2 teaspoons cornflour
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Step 1:Rinse the Dong Cai twice & drain.
Step 2: Mix minced meat with Dong Cai and seasoning ingredients, set aside for 15 minutes.
Step 3: Spread the meat on a slightly deep stainless steel plate or a large heatproof dish.
Step 4: Steam in a wok over rapidly boiling water for 8 – 10 minutes or until cooked. Garnish with chopped spring onions.
Remark: Besides tung choy, a variety of ingredients can be substituted such as Zha Choy, dried squid, salted egg, Mui Choy or Dai Tau Choy.
You can also steam the minced meat in a rice cooker! Place plate of meat on top of rice when rice is going to be cooked and let the steam of the rice cook the meat.
A big bowl of rice please~~ ^__^
Happy Cooking!
Wow looks so good and easy to prepare. Thanx for sharing Choi Yen. I’ll keep this recipe for future use 🙂
Very homey dish, hope your family like it!
Swallowing saliva now….
Try to cook at home, it’s super easy!
yummy yummy~
I like it ^o^
^__*
This dish is easy to prepare & its very ‘che fan’ 😉
Indeed, I shouldn’t cook this regularly or else my low carbo diet will be ruined >_<
One more pls
Next week~
this is one of my grandmother’s favourite recipes. i didn’t appreciate it when i was young, but now that i’m old, i would like to have it. your version looks good! 🙂
Thanks Sean 🙂
This is my childhood fav dish. My mom always cook this and then I got my kids, I tried making it but my kids don’t like steamed meat..*maybe not delicious**hahhaha. So I only get to eat at my mom’s house. Makan sendiri no syiok la.
Eat with your hubby lor… ^__*
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