Mapo Napa Cabbage

4 min readDec 13, 2020

….Everybody knows “Mapo Tofu”. Mapo tofu is one of the most popular Chinese dishes. I add Napa cabbage instead of tofu during winter. Napa cabbage is very delicious in winter, tastes sweet and crunchy. You could even use hot pepper if you want. The good thing about Mapo Napa Cabbage is that it’s a well balanced meal in one dish. It is made with cheap ingredients and delicious. You won’t need any other side dishes with this. JOHN loves Napa cabbage.

Serving: 3–4

Time: 40 minutes

Ingredients:

1 cup ground pork
6 leaves Napa cabbage, cut into 1/2 inch lengthwise
2 cup water
1 ts chicken stock(1/2 cup hot water+1/2 ts chicken stock and 1/2 ts chicken stock)
2 Ts sesame oil
1/2 ts sea salt
1 cup shiitake mushroom, minced
1/3 cup carrot, minced
1/2 cup celery, minced
2 Ts avocado oil
2 Ts green onion, minced
2 Ts garlic, minced
1/2 Ts ginger, minced
1 1/3 Ts chili bean sauce(TOBAN DJAN)
1 1/2 Ts sake
1 1/2 Ts sugar
2 1/2 Ts soy sauce
4 1/2 Ts water starch(potato starch: water=3 Ts: 1 1/2 Ts)
black pepper(this is optional)
4 cup steamed rice

Cooking Instructions:

How to Peel the celery.

2. Parboil the Napa cabbage, heat up a pot with medium high heat and add the water, 1/2 ts chicken stock, 1 Ts sesame oil and sea salt into the pot to boil them.

3. When the water is boiling, put the stem part of the cabbage into the pot first for 2–3 minutes.

4. Add the leaves part of the cabbage into the pot to keep parboiling them for 1–2 more minutes. Turn off the heat and take out the cabbage to set aside.

5. Heat up a pan with high heat and add the avocado oil, garlic, ginger and green onion into the pan. Stir fry them for 2 minutes.

6. Add the pork into the pan and keep stirring them well for 5 minutes.

7. Add the chili bean sauce into the pan and keep stirring them for 1 minute.

8. Add the carrot, shiitake mushroom and celery into the pan and keep stirring them for 2 minutes.

9. Add the sake, sugar, soy sauce, 1/2 ts chicken stock +1/2 cup hot water and parboiled cabbage into the pan and turn down with medium low heat to simmer them for 2 minutes.