15 Minute Meal: 'Happosai' Eight Treasure Stir-fry & Chinese Rice Bowl. By parboiling the hard, white stems of the Chinese cabbage and carrot, you can shorten the cooking time, and stir-fried vegetables turn out nice and crispy. Happopsai (八宝菜) translates to eight treasure dish (八 - 宝 - 菜) and it comes from China. My favorite dish with quail egg is "Happosai", literally meaning eight treasure stir fry.
I am sure each family has their own recipe. This Spicy Eight Treasures Stir fry is another everyday home cooking dish from the old days in Shanghai. Here's the basic gist: You boil some noodles and veggies in the same pot, throw them in a bowl with some seasonings, pour a couple tablespoons of hot oil over everything, and mix. You can cook 15 Minute Meal: 'Happosai' Eight Treasure Stir-fry & Chinese Rice Bowl using 13 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of 15 Minute Meal: 'Happosai' Eight Treasure Stir-fry & Chinese Rice Bowl
- It's 3 of leaves Chinese cabbage.
- You need 30 grams of Carrot.
- Prepare 80 grams of Thinly sliced pork.
- Prepare 1 of Prawns, squid.
- Prepare 1 of Bamboo shoots, Japanese leek, shiitake mushrooms, wood ear mushrooms.
- You need 1 of Green vegetables (snow peas, etc.).
- It's 1 of Quail eggs, naruto, etc..
- You need 1 of Ginger (julienned).
- You need 2 tbsp of dissolved in 2 tablespoons of water Katakuriko.
- Prepare 200 ml of Water (adjust it depending on the vegetables).
- You need 1 1/2 tbsp of Chinese soup stock.
- You need 1 dash of Salt (or soy sauce).
- It's 2 tbsp of Oil for stir-frying (sesame oil is the best).
The great thing about this chicken cabbage stir fry is you can prepare for it ahead of time. Add ingredients in order of length of time to cook, starting with those that take the longest but do not add leafy greens. Start with onion and proteins (together), followed by broccoli and other vegetables in "floret" form, followed by carrots, stems of leafy greens, zucchini, eggplant, beans and other firm vegetables, and lastly cabbage and snow peas and other vegetables that take little time. Add meat and cook for about a minute until the meat is almost cooked through.
15 Minute Meal: 'Happosai' Eight Treasure Stir-fry & Chinese Rice Bowl step by step
- Lightly parboil the hard, white stems of the Chinese cabbage, and carrot (or microwave them). Dissolve the katakuriko in water to make katakuriko slurry, and set aside..
- The photo shows the parboiled Chinese cabbage and carrot, and Chinese cabbage leaves..
- These are the rest of the vegetables, and other ingredients. (The prawns and squid are not shown in this photo, but I added them later.).
- Stir-fry the ginger in 2 tablespoons of sesame oil..
- Stir-fry the pork, then add the rest of the ingredients. You have parboiled the vegetables that take longer to cook in Step 1, so don't overcook them..
- Add less water than the volume of the vegetables, and bring it to a boil. Add the Chinese soup stock, season with salt (or soy sauce), and thicken the sauce with the katakuriko slurry. And it's done..
- Addendum 1: Rehydrate dried wakame seaweed. Combine it with sesame oil, soy sauce, Japanese leek, and sesame seeds. Make a bowl of soup with Chinese soup stock, and add the wakame mixture to make wakame soup..
- Addendum 2: Divide julienned ginger and thinly sliced ginger into small portions, cover with cling film, and keep them in the freezer. They will come in handy since you can use the thinly sliced ginger to make simmered fish, and you can use the julienned ginger to make this dish..
Add the soaked black mushrooms, bean sprouts and sauté for another minute. Add the parboiled vegetables and salt and stir fry over a high flame for a few minutes. Add the sauce mixture and bring to a boil, stirring continuously. Tips Eight-treasure dishes, also called "eight-precious," feature an abundance of luxury ingredients. The ingredients can vary, and there can be a few more or less than eight, as long as the message is delivered that this is a little splurge.
