Description
No knife needed; hand-torn cabbage briefly cooked in five-spice soup. Overwhelming sweetness melting into soup soothes dieting stomachs.
Restaurants serving Cabbage Luwei (Quick & Budget)
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Recipe
Ingredients
- Cabbage
- Quick Lu Zhi (soy
- Mentsuyu
- cola
- five-spice etc.)
- Tube garlic
- Sesame oil
Instructions
- [Authentic & Quick Recipe]
- [Lazy Prep Without Knife] Core cabbage, hand-tear into large bite-sized pieces without a knife, wash briefly (*Hand-tearing makes irregular cross-sections, easily coating flavor even in short time).
- [Light Lu Zhi Highlighting Sweetness] Boil cola (a little), soy, Mentsuyu (or chicken broth), five-spice in a pot. Cabbage yields supreme sweetness, so keep soy light and soup color thin to make it look delicious.
- [Second-speed Heating Retaining Crispness] Vigorously toss cabbage into boiling soup. Push cabbage into soup on high, quickly pull out with strainer in just '40-
- secs'. Boiling more kills texture, so the moment it slightly wilts is best.
- [Finishing] While piping hot, drizzle tube grated garlic and a little sesame oil, toss. Herb soup saltiness and cabbage sweetness create perfect balance.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips
Key spices
Five-spice aroma、garlic punch、sesame oil
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
Napa cabbage (similarly yields sweetness and delicious)
Pairing
All Luwei meats、Taiwan Beer
Trivia
[For Women] #11 'Weight-loss ingredient'. One of the highest order-rate veg among women at Taiwan heated Luwei stalls. Bulks up without oil; cabbage's overwhelming sweetness milds five-spice quirks, an ultimate diet ingredient delicious even for Taiwan food beginners.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] Sprinkle a little Taiwan super-spicy chili powder (Lajiao Fen), setting the mouth on fire with the contrast of sweet cabbage and heat!
Allergen
Soy, Wheat (from soy/Mentsuyu), Sesame