Chinese Vegetarian Recipes

Cabbage Soup Recipe – Milky

Cabbage Soup Recipe

Introduction to the Milky Cabbage Soup Recipe:

To be honest, I have never cooked cabbage soup before in my life because I had thought the cabbage is not a kind of vegetable for soup. This recipe for cabbage soup is included in a Chinese vegetarian recipes book. Wondering what it would taste like, I decided to have a try today.

Although it was my first try, the result turned out to be not a total failure, actually pretty exciting. Without any ado, let’s get started right away.

Ingredients:

Cabbage: 300 g

Carrots: 100 g

Lima beans: 50 g

Tomato: 50 g

Butter: 100 g

Seasonings:

Salt: 3 g

MSG: 2 g

Vegetable stock¹: 500 g

Oil flour ²: 100 g

Preparation work:

1. Rinse the cabbage and carrots clean;

2. Chop the cabbage into pieces of about 3 centimeters;

3. Slice the carrots into thin (2 mm) pieces;

4. Immerse the tomato into hot water, which makes it easy to be peeled;

5. Peel the tomato and remove the seeds;

6. Slice the tomato.

Cooking Steps of the Milky Cabbage Soup Recipe:

1. Put the wok on high heat;

2. When the wok is hot and dry, pour the vegetable stock into it;

3. Add salt and butter into the stock;

4. Wait until it begins to boil;

5. Mix the oil flour with water of appropriate amount, and pour the mixture into the boiling soup;

6. Then blend the cabbage pieces, carrots slices, sliced tomato and the lima beans into the wok;

7. Add the MSG in when the soup is boiling again;

8. It’s ready for serving.

Tips:

1. If you don’t have time to prepare the vegetable stock, then you can use clean water for now. This way, you will know which is better when you are using stock next time. The vegetable stock recipe can be found here.

2. Oil flour should also be prepared. The process is easy.

a. Preheat the wok with some vegetable oil;

b. When the oil is 80% hot, pour some wheat flour into it and quickly stir it;

c. At the same time, turn the heat down a little bit in order to keep the oil temperature down so that the flour will not be burned;

d. When the flour is done, transfer it into a container and mix it with brown sugar.

e. This is the oil flour ready.